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Machinery and Equipment

Alphabetical listing of machines and/or equipment that might be used for harvesting timber. Photo's are used to illustrate each item, and where possible a short video is included to see it in action.

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A Return to Top	Agricultural Tractor Animal Power
B Return to Top	Backhoe Brush Cutter Bucking
C Return to Top	Cable Skidder Cable Yarder Carriage Chain-flail delimber Chainsaw Chip trailer Chokers Clam bunk skidder
D Return to Top	Delimbing Drum-Debarker Dual Tires
E Return to Top	Energy Wood Harvester (Bundler) Excavator - base
F Return to Top	Firewood-Processor Forwarder Four Wheel Drive Loader
G Return to Top	Gate delimber Grapple saw Grapple Skidder
H Return to Top	Harvester Hauler - see 'yarder' Heel-boom Helicopter
I Return to Top	In-woods chipper
J Return to Top
K Return to Top	Knuckle boom loader
L Return to Top	Loader Log-truck Log-Trailer (see Trailer) Lowboy Trailer
M Return to Top	Masticator Motor Grader
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P Return to Top	Processing head / Processor Pull-through delimber
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R Return to Top	Rake on skidder Road Sweeper
S Return to Top	Saw-buck Self-leveling cab system Self Loading Truck Shovel Skidder Steep Terrain Harvester Straight truck (Bob Truck) Stroke Boom Delimber Stump Shear
T Return to Top	Tracked Feller-Buncher Tracked loader Tracked Skidder / Bulldozer Trailer Trailer mounted loader Trimming up truck Truck-tractor with semi-trailer Truck-tractor with trailer Tub-grinder
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W Return to Top	Walking Harvester Wheeled Feller-Buncher Winch plate
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Y Return to Top	Yarder - See 'Cable Yarder' Yoader
Z Return to Top