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Title: barko expands product line
Post by: treefarmer87 on February 28, 2013, 07:30:04 PM

was just on the barko site -they have added a 9 ton cap. forwarder that weighs 26000 lbs and a harvester line too :)

Title: Re: barko expands product line
Post by: snowstorm on February 28, 2013, 07:53:59 PM

they bought what was left of norco also called puma. i talked a puma fowarder owner a couple yrs back. as he put it its a work in progress. before it was called puma it was k2. they only made a few machines

Title: Re: barko expands product line
Post by: treefarmer87 on February 28, 2013, 08:43:14 PM

I don't understand why they discontinued the feller bunchers, they were good machines

Title: Re: barko expands product line
Post by: barbender on February 28, 2013, 11:36:03 PM

I've heard some bad stories about the Puma machines, hopefully Barko will straighten it out.

Title: Re: barko expands product line
Post by: loggah on March 01, 2013, 07:08:06 AM

Barko ,made some good machines, back in the early 80,s i had a 225 barko loader,4-53 power unit, live heel,it was mounted on a DM 600 steel nose mack,it sat up high enough so you had a hydraulic tipping cab to run it over the road.It was great loading trailers,and feeding the chipper. Don

Title: Re: barko expands product line
Post by: treefarmer87 on March 01, 2013, 08:03:06 PM

I can get either a 160 barko or 275 for $6000 the 160s collector leaks.

Title: Re: barko expands product line
Post by: 1270d on March 02, 2013, 11:18:35 PM

It seems like they are trying to build reliable yet cheap machines. They look like clubs. Powershift trans in the k2 maybe the later ones have hydrostat. Iqan system with suregrip controls.

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