2018 International Forest Industries December 2017 January 2018 | Page 46

Felling Heads
Cat, Deere, Tigercat:
head-to-head-to-head
Better batching,
tilting and sawing
are on show from
two industry greats
T
here appear no great secrets
to the needs of forestry
professional labouring
under the tree-length method of
harvesting, who have asked for
greater flexibility and capacity from
leading suppliers.
With a few quirks and add-ons
to boot, that is essentially what the
industry’s biggest providers of such
technology – Caterpillar, John Deere
and Tigercat – have delivered to the
market.
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Tigercat builds a full line of
innovative felling attachments
designed to match the high
performance and productivity of
Tigercat carriers. The product range
includes disc saw and shear felling
heads, fixed wrist and directional
bar saw felling heads, and a
growing line of harvesting heads.
Tigercat felling attachments
are used around the world and can
be matched to virtually any type
of mechanized felling application
from small diameter pulpwood and
biomass clear fell applications to
selective felling of oversized, high-
value hardwood.
2000 bunching shear
The original Tigercat bunching
shears were designed in the mid
1990s for North American pine
thinning operations. Over the
years, the evolution of the 2000
series shear has made into what is
considered the premium plantation
eucalyptus felling head for the blue