The Forestry Forum

I've watched a few vids of this head on youtube, and I like it a lot...
I was wondering if there was a clear advantage to using an intermittent disc over a bar/chain on harvester heads..
It looks to work very well...
Basically, I like the idea of being able to use the head as a feller buncher or as a harvester or a processor on the landing...the info from Quadco says it can even be used to load trucks..
Here's the vids..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUta7HPNKE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUta7HPNKE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crTqvSRUfIE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crTqvSRUfIE&feature=related)

to bad its on a timbco nothing but a nitemare.ran a 455 for 3 years thank god it finely burnt

I'd want this carrier..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSxxbW6C5M&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSxxbW6C5M&feature=related)

i love the tigrecat 860. 8)

The Quadco heads are quite popular in certain parts of New Brunswick. In my mind the intermittant saw gets rid of a lot of hopping in and out of the cab putting on chains, flipping bars, replacing bars, filling chain oil tank, etc, etc.

It would also eliminate jamming the bar in a forked top, bending bars when felling trees and all the associated downtime that accrues from all these activities.

I believe that Komatsu (Valmet) bought Timbco and their technologies a few years back. The old Timbco's could really make a harvesting head work if you could keep the carrier from self destructing. Not sure what the newer Valmet carriers are like but i too am a Tigercat fan. Stick one of those heads on a Tigercat 845 or 855 and it would really work ... the 860 is overkill for a head of that size.