The days of the lumberjack are over. Nowadays, machines have made us redundant in the forest as they are designed specifically to fell trees whereas we, after thousands of years of asking and chopping down trees, still don’t know our true purpose here.
But enough with the humor. The machines shown in the videos linked here are awesome and extremely efficient at reducing an entire forest to a barren stumpy wasteland. The business end of the machines is the harvesting head which can be mounted on various types of vehicles. It enables the operator to choose a tree, then cut it, strip it of branches and then cut pieces of an exact dimension with perfect accuracy.
Just enjoy the wonderful technology shown in these videos and also try to appreciate that using equipment like these cutting heads and various similar ‘gadgets’, in places like Finland, they are able harvest more and more trees every year, and through careful planning, their forests always regenerate and usually surpass the previous year in terms of the quantity of wood being harvested - awesome stuff!
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