April 28, 2009 A German mechanical engineer has designed a tree harvester that weighs just over a tenth of conventional vehicles used to fell trees, which causes less damage to forest floor.

Tree harvesting is a destructive business by design. The machines trample the forest floor, leaving pulverized tracks in their wake. Christian Knobloch, a German industrial designer, wanted to build a ...

Watching the Ponsse Beaver tree harvesting machine in action is nothing short of mesmerizing. The machine makes giant trees look like nothing more than toothpicks. Ponsse is a Finnish company that ...

We imagine a farm to be a place where people celebrate simplicity and get back to the land, and why not? Most of our food is sold to us that way. But farms are big business, and they’re more high-tech ...

The world of highly specialized, single-purpose vehicles is wide and fascinating. But I have to say, I did not expect the orchard industry of all things to produce a machine that looks like straight ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. #1 The Ponsse Beaver is an industrial tree-harvesting machine. It cuts the tree at the base. Then in one motion, it removes the ...

MASON, Mich. (WILX) - Snow-covered rows of Christmas trees stretch across Tannenbaum Farms near Mason, where families are ...

The days of the lumberjack are over. Nowadays, machines have made us redundant in the forest as they are designed specifically to fell trees whereas we, after thousands of years of asking and chopping ...

BATTLE CREEK — Contractor crews from Forest Restoration LLC are currently working to harvest trees from city-owned property along Jackson Street. "The harvesting of selected trees for timber will help ...