The new PONSSE H10 opens up a new market for Ponsse: the H10 is a heavy-duty processing and harvesting head for track-based machines weighing over 25 tonnes. With the new size class of harvester heads, Ponsse is responding to the harvesting needs of local harvesting entrepreneurs.
“Our local customers are primarily harvesting logs using the cut-to-length method and forest machines with rubber tyres. However, sometimes the trees are so thick that track-based machines with processing heads are required. The fact that PONSSE Bear harvesters and PONSSE Elephant forwarders are even used for thinning gives a good idea of the conditions in the USA. In other industrial harvesting markets, these models are used for regeneration felling,” says Jarmo Vidgrén, sales and marketing director at Ponsse Plc.
“We have a lot of long-standing customer relationships in the USA, dating back to the early 90s. Cooperation with customers has always been good, which is also evidenced by the positive results of our product development.”
The PONSSE H10 processing head has also been tested in the USA. Its durable body structure, good grip and powerful feeding ensure good productivity and a long service life. Thanks to the Opti control system, the H10 is dimensionally very accurate. The product development work performed in cooperation with customers has focussed on the easy controllability and maintenance of the harvester head. The PONSSE H8 with a top saw is designed for harvesting and processing difficult deciduous andconiferous trees in North America.
The product family of PONSSE harvester heads has been totally reformed over the last few years. All harvester heads in the different size categories are well suited for thinning, regeneration felling and multi-stemming, and multi-stemming with PONSSE harvester heads is possible without any additional equipment. Ponsse has been developing harvester heads since 1986.