Feb 2021 Iron Test: The Big Gun - TIMBERPRO TF840

Iron Test: The Big Gun - TIMBERPRO TF840

     Story & Photos by John Ellegard

THE TIMBERPRO TF840 HAS BEEN THE BIG GUN OF forwarders for many years. Easily capable of legally moving 30 tonnes of wood from the cut-over to the skid site, it has no trouble out-muscling other forwarders in the heavy-hauling department.

It’s been more than eight years since NZ Logger last sampled one of these bad-boys and the competition has ramped up since then. So when the Subritzky Clark crew took delivery of the recently upgraded D-series TimberPro TF840 – the first in New Zealand – to pull cut-to-length logs out o...

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