Forestry Equipment Buying Guide

Here in the Evergreen State, forestry is one of our biggest and most lucrative industries. Anyone who works in the field will tell you how important it is to have the right types of equipment available. For felling and transporting trees, you need to get reliable machinery that helps you perform these tasks quickly and easily.

Read on to learn more about what you can expect when you shop for forestry equipment.

What Is Forestry Equipment?

Any piece of heavy equipment that is made to handle logging and other forestry-related tasks is a forest machine. Most of these machines are made to deal with harvesting the trees and dealing with the resulting debris, but some forestry equipment is made to plant trees, in addition to managing their growth and tending to them.

What Features Do They Have?

When you shop for a piece of forestry equipment, you’ll need to think about two important features: the gross power of the machine and the operating weight of the machine. The gross power is how much power the engine (which may be gas or diesel) is able to produce. The operating weight is the maximum weight of the entire machine without cargo on it. You can also choose between equipment that has tires for more speed or equipment that has tracks to improve stability.

How Is Forestry Equipment Used?

Forestry equipment is utilized by landscapers in addition to those who manage forests. Machines are made to deal with different parts of the process of harvesting wood, including felling trees, extracting the logs from where they were cut, processing the wood into lumber, loading the logs into a vehicle or trailer, transporting the logs to a new location and cleaning up debris, such as roots, branches and tree stumps.

What Types of Machines Are There?

There are a number of different types of machines designed for forestry work. Each one is designed to suit a specific task. A log loader stacks and loads pre-cut logs of wood, and it’s capable of handling a lot of logs in a short amount of time. This speed helps to improve productivity. A mulcher has a spinning rotor that supports sharp blades which shred up all kinds of organic material, including shrubs and branches. This machine can help you to clean up debris. Whatever task it is you need to complete, there’s likely a piece of forestry equipment that can help you do it more efficiently.

Looking to shop forest machinery? Visit our dealership in Spokane Valley, WA, to check out our wide stock of forestry equipment for sale. FMI Equipment serves customers in the Inland Northwest including Washington, Idaho and Montana!