Tips to Use Your Forest Machines

In a nutshell, different forest machinery help harvest, excavate, and clear up woodlands. However, to make the most of your investment, you will want to get the machines that perfectly match your needs.

Keep reading to learn more about the various ways you can use your forest machines, and for more information, visit Cascade Trader. Our friendly staff can address your concerns and help you pick a model that suits your unique needs. We are in Chehalis, WA, and we happily welcome our customers from Olympia.

Forest Machines to Harvest Trees

You can use heavy machines like feller bunchers to bring down trees in a large forest area. These machines come with large clamps and arms, and they help cut and extract the trees with minimal human effort. They come with tracks instead of wheels, which is why they can navigate steep inclines and rocky terrain with ease.

Forest Machines to Excavate

After your workers have felled all the trees, you’ll need excavating machines to process them. Typically, you’ll want to use various chainsaws to cut the tree trunks into more manageable lumber and then use yarders to move the logs out of the wooded areas. You can use a swing boom over rugged terrain and a fixed boom yarder in deep valleys.
Once your logs are out of the forest, you’ll want to use your forwarder to move them to the timber yard.

Forest Machines to Clear the Land

Finally, some machines help clear the land after removing trees. This heavy machinery helps clear out an area for replanting a new generation of trees more quickly and professionally.

Stump grinders help remove tree stumps firmly rooted in the soil, and bulldozers help turn the ground and transport the debris.

Are you ready to explore a few models in person? Come down to Cascade Trader, where we have a fine selection of forest machines for sale. Our dealership is in Chehalis, WA, and we proudly serve Olympia.