In the first quarter of 2017, 65 new forwarders were registered in Sweden. Just one of them was made by Tigercat. But internationally the picture is different, and that’s what Tigercat wants to present at Elmia Wood.

Tigercat is a big name on the world market for machines developed for tree-length logging. While that will be part of the company’s offering at Elmia Wood, Tigercat will focus on the CTL method by exhibiting harvesters and forwarders.

An exciting combination of both methods is having its world premiere at the fair. It is a tracked harvester, looking very similar to an excavator, with a harvesting head on the end of the boom. It is called the LH822D and has a newly developed undercarriage with longer tracks to give it better accessibility and enable it to stand securely in steep terrain.

“We’re also presenting the new forwarders in our C series,” says Samantha Paul of Tigercat in Canada.

Photo: The world premiere for the Tigercat LH822D will be at Elmia Wood. The machine has a new undercarriage with longer tracks for greater accessibility and stability in steep terrain.