Forestry equipment

thumb|link=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodchipper.webm|Woodchipper (click for video)

forestry vehicle that fells trees, delimbs and cuts logs to length

thumb|Forestry Forwarder Ösa 250. thumb|A medium-sized forwarder piling logs. thumb|Valmet 840.2 Forwarder

thumb|right|A slip tongue log skidder used in the 19th and early 20th centuries thumb|Elements of a skidding harness A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks (or railroad cars or a flume), and sent to the mill. One exception is that in the early days of logging, when distances from the timberline to the mill were shorter, the landing stage was omitted altogether, and the "skidder" would have been

vehicle used for carrying logs

power tool for removing tree stumps

mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks

tool for wood splitting

thumb|Ponsse Buffalo forwarder Ponsse Plc () is a company domiciled in Finland that manufactures and markets a range of forestry vehicles and machinery such as forwarders and harvesters. The Ponsse company was established by the forest machine entrepreneur in 1970. , Ponsse's machines are used at logging sites in approximately 40 countries, and 74 per cent of the company's net sales come from exports. All machines are manufactured in the company's birthplace in Vieremä. Ponsse Group employs more than 2,000 people in 12 countries, and the company's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Lis

machine for transplanting trees

tree felling machine which also functions to hold and accumulate cut trees