As devastating wildfires make headlines around the world, Alden Spencer, global product manager for ANSUL Vehicle Systems at Johnson Controls, discusses the fire risks inherent to forestry operations and how the latest, non-fluorinated vehicle fire suppression systems can help keep operations safe, sustainable and profitable.
Harvesting contractor Neil Gray, of Treeworks Forestry, offers his personal take in response to previous Voices of Forestry columns by Jock McKie, MD of John Deere Forestry UK, and Mark Curtis, founder of the Forest Machine Operators Blog.
A new ‘transparent bucket’ system from Doosan Infracore Europe has won two major awards at the international Matexpo Exhibition in Belgium.
THE UK Government’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Timber Industries has launched with a new report that aims to provide solutions to the UK’s housing and climate crises.
A team of experts exploring the mainstream use of homegrown timber in the construction sector has secured funding for the next phase of a demonstrator project which will see the first two-storey modular home manufactured from Scottish mass timber displayed during COP26.
Voices of Forestry brings analysis and insight direct from some of the most well-known and respected figures across the forestry industry. Offering his views on the haulage sector is Neil Stoddart, who has been in timber harvesting for 27 years, plying his trade in the Borders and, for the last 17 years, in the west of Scotland.
THE Remembrance Glade, new tree-lined space honouring the Armed Forces, has been unveiled by the Royal British Legion at the National Memorial Arboretum.
Phil Sparrow continues the story of Danny, a young forester whose hunt for work and enthusiasm to try anything took him from the sawmills to harvesting heather to shearing sheep to, in this latest chapter, coppicing chestnut with some questionable characters.
PLATFORM CarbonStore is hosting a webinar this month focusing on why woodland creation should be part of a carbon reduction strategy and the race for net-zero.
Andy Fielding of CTS Forestry & Arboriculture puts Climbing Technology’s latest helmet for arborists to the test.
