I was out doing errands with the kids this morning and saw a lot of new Komatsu equipment at one of the local heavy equipment dealers in the area. The was at Andersen Equipment, nearby is also Nortrax John Deere and Hitachi as well as Chadwick Ba Ross Case and Volvo, Bobcat, Milton CAT, Ambrose Equipment Wacker Neuson, Hamm, Leeboy, Wirtgen, etc and many other dealers.

Here are the pictures I took while showing my son the equipment. Sorry if the picture are not very good, this dealership is fenced in.

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Thank you!

My son has been interested in trucks and equipment since he was a year old. He's going to be 5 in October. I've been bringing him to see equipment ever since he was born. I grew up around equipment and now I deliver ready mixed concrete for a living so it's always been a big part of my life.

My favorite equipment will always be Forestry equipment. I love tracked feller bunchers and harvesters skidders and forwarders.

Komatsu and Hitachi are my favorite brands of heavy equipment but I do like the good old CAT and JD and Leibherr and many other equipment brands as well.

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Indeed, I really like that little dumper truck.

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The only stupid question is a question not asked. At least that's what my father always told me. Lol

NH is home of the White Mountains. Very little flat ground mostly in southern NH and most of the logging areas are very hilly/steep. We rarely use wheels harvesters for that reason. Typically self leveling Feller Bunchers and Harvesters are use to make it easier to log the hilly terrain.

Wheeled articulating feller butchers such as the John Deere 843L are typically used for the more level areas.

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JTL New England topography changes a lot depending where you are, but the one over arching feautre is very very few areas of flat ground. I used to live in VT where logging is a major part of the economy. Now living in CT there isn't as much. The intresting thing about New England logging is the equipment is different all throughout. Your typical logging crew in Maine or New Hampshire would have a track buncher, a few grapple skidders, a delimber and truck or trailer mounted live heel loader with a slasher.In Vermont it would be a cable skidder and a self loading log truck lol. My friend up there does cut to length and they have a small but nice fleet. ATimbo 425 with Rolly Harvesting head, a Timbco 820D forwarder and a Valmet forwarder. Massachusets also uses track bunchers, with grapple skidders, a dangle head processor and a tracked log loader. Rhode Island where I also used to live doesn't have much, but my old neighbor there had a Deere wheeled buncher, Cat 325B FM dangle head processor, old Cat 528 grapple? And a Cat 535B. Used self loading log trucks. In CT, there isn't much and it changes a lot. You see a bit of everything. I have seen a Doosan DX225LL-3 with Logmax 7000XT but then my neighbor has a prentice 410e trailer mount with pull delimber. There isn't a trend. I have seen one track log loader here, a Daewoo 300LL with rotobec grapple. There isn't much logging in CT but a lot of landclearing. Grapple skidders, leveling bunchers and various loaders. Most of these pictures are in CT as I only started equipment photography since I moved. This is a link to my forestry album on flickr, I believe that all of these are in New England. For some reason I haven't taken many pictures of forestry equipment here even though I see it a lot lol. I also attached a link to my friend Jesse's forestry album which is exlusivley in New England.
My Foresty Album
Jesse's Forestry Album

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them

You hit the nail on the head LinkBelt. I can't speak for other states buy you hit the nail on the head for NH. I typically see Leveling Fellers and Grapple Skidders but frequently see cable skidders and wheeled feller butchers. I see a mixed batch of self loading log trucks and typical flat bed trailers with side stakes.

I also see ALOT of Tiger Car fellers, skidders and loaders. Most other common brands are Cat and JD skidders, Valmet and Cat and Timbco/Timber Pro Feller Bunchers. Most of the Feller Bunchers are Valmet or Timbco with a few CATs here and there and some JD.

The larg majority of wood is chipped for pulp or pellets, the rest to the mills.

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Some nice photos there. I wonder if anyone other than WCollins (you're exempt) will realize what this actually is;

These are the last three links from the last post that I can't get to work in that post for some reason.

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Some more pictures I've taken

Old Clark Skidder




It had some steel welded to the cable guides.



Not many creature comforts





A pair of excavators on a job.





A Shuttle Lift Carry Deck


An old track loader


A big Grove Crane



A link belt getting new Pistons

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