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PONSSE 10w

TOWARDS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY HARVESTING

The environmentally friendly 10-wheeled forwarder concept meets the modern challenges of effectiveness and respecting the environment. The objective of the "Beating the challenge of peat land timber harvesting using conventional machines" project was to create a simple and reliable forest machine that leaps to a whole new level of environmental friendliness by introducing soft terrains with poor carrying capacity into the sphere of the forest economy.

The purpose of the co-operation project between Ponsse Oyj, Metsähallitus and Metla was to look for practical solutions that can be used to increase timber harvesting on peat soil when the soil is not frozen using machinery that is in general use. The development issues included:

1) equipping forest machines for soft soil,
2) adapting working with a machine to soils with poor carrying capacity,
3) developing on the design, and
4) improving the preconditions of wood harvesting companies.

The project included extensive testing in the terrain to compare the various track solutions. The track models to be tested were manufactured by Metsätyö Oy.