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SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS
All John Deere WCTL forest machine Stage V and FT4 engines are compatible for renewable diesel officially approved by European standard EN15940. No changes have been made to the engines or to the machines, and this is solely a matter of official certification.
Creating a new forest machine takes passion and persistence
The productization of a new forest machine series is a multi-phase process that takes several years at the very least.
Planting seedlings for a better future
The Mechanized Seedling Planter is designed to be adaptable to different species and is intended to be used in different forestry markets around the world.
Precision harvesting is the future of logging.
Jori Uusitalo, Professor of Forest Operations and Logistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has built a new multi-targeted harvesting model in collaboration with his research team. He calls it precision harvesting.
Reaching out to the sky
Iceland is a large island with rugged landscape formed by volcanic eruptions over the country’s history. Landsnet’s maintenance crew packs into a big four-by-four drive vehicle and heads to a high-voltage power line on the mountains east of the city of Reykjavik.
Going for gold
John Deere’s 1910G forwarder is a beast in the forest, but what do you call a 1910G in a gold mine? It appears that 1910G is a real monster in a mining tunnel, too – as experiences from Finnish Lapland would suggest.