Can a handful of innovations give the harwarder a place in the forest?
Despite its major advantages, the harwarder, a combined harvester and forwarder, has never made a breakthrough. The profitability has just not been there.At Elmia Wood 2013, Swedish innovator Christer Lennartsson is exhibiting a machine with the potential to transform the harvester from vision to reality.A few harwarders do exist on the market but most forest contractors have a wait-and-see attitude to them. Christer Lennartsson says this is for several reasons. One is that a contractor may be restricted to using a special harvester head that limits the machine to doing only thinning.“
