Speed up on the forest road with Street-Rubbers and WOODRACKER

The application areas for WOODCRACKER forestry machines are versatile, but to a certain extent limited to the flexibility of the carrier vehicle. Therefore Westtech always watches out for carrier vehicles and machines that make rough terrain accessible and enable a faster workflow in the forest. After all, time is money.

Safe with Street-Rubbers

The primary used carrier vehicle for WOODCRACKERs are excavators. Therefore, an exciting cooperation with Street-Rubbers arose. Street-Rubbers are rubberized and street-legal crawler units that combine the benefits of steel chains and wheel drive, especially for wheel excavators. Simply put, maximum traction in terrain but also complete roadworthiness without causing damage to the asphalt. Street-Rubbers broaden the footprint of the wheel excavator and treat the forest ground with care.

Access new application areas

Using Street-Rubbers extents the application for WOODCRACKER forestry machines. Rough terrain or inaccessible slopes are easier to handle. Additionally, no low-loaders are needed for short-distance transportation. An excavator equipped with Street-Rubbers combined with the cutting head WOODCRACKER C turned out to be a beneficial arrangement. Larger quantities of wood can be harvested automatically in a soil-conserving way, especially in places where typically manual work is necessary.

Agile and compact: cutting head WOODCRACKER CL190 on a farm loader

Westtech designed a smaller cutting head of the C model range especially for the harvest of small trees and bushes, cutting up to 25 cm in diameter in soft wood. The agile and light-weighted attachement weighing only 210 kg is attachable to small excavators of 2.5 ton net weight or even to farm loaders of known brands.

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Land clearing along the banks of the Danube with WOODCRACKER

In January 2017, the excavator and forestry service provider Martin Gotsmi carried out land clearing along the banks of the Danube in Marbach, Lower Austria, with the aid of WOODCRACKER forestry technology. The service provider Gotsmi GmbH from Klein Pöchlarn received the order to clear the embankement of 4 km in length from trees and bushes, to prepare the area for a new building project. Marbach suffered massive damage after floods in 2002 and 2013 and eventually got the approval for the building of a new flood protection.

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WOODCRACKER live show in Krumbach (Germany)

On 9th of December, a live demonstration of WESTTECH and the tree care company Gebele took place in marvellous weather. The German company Gebele from Neuburg, which is a professional in land clearing, showed off the powerful WOODCRACKER machines mounted on a Liebherr 932 and a crawler excavator, Liebherr 924.

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The new CL190 cutting head – swift and affordable

The new WOODCRACKER® CL190 is the smallest of the C-series cutting heads, but should not be underestimated.

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New grapple saw WOODCRACKER® CS580 smart starts operation

The WOODCRACKER® CS series

In September 2016, the small and compact grapple saw CS 580 “smart” was introduced as an extension of the consisting WOODCRACKER® CS series. The CS 580 “smart” was particularly designed for the attachment to telescopic handlers. The opening width of the gripper is 1250mm, the maximum cutting diameter amount to about 580mm. The machine is endlessly rotatable and the gripper shows significant more gripping force. Due to clever design, the net weight was reduced to a minimum of 850 kg. The flexible cutting head, attached to a telescopic handler, is perfectly suited for swift and simple tree felling as well as for tree care and landscaping, particularly at exposed locations.

Short facts:

  • Extremely high gripping force
  • Tiltator with potent torque
  • Only one double-acting control valve required
  • Active spring-loaded saw
  • Grease lubrication for chain saw
  • Compact design

Experience report and video come soon!

Outstanding performance of Westtech Woodcracker at KWF Expo in Roding (Germany)

Westtech presented a wide range of their Woodcracker® forestry equipment for safe wood harvest and biomass processing at this year’s 17th KWF Expo in Roding, Bavaria. Read more

See new WOODCRACKER machines at KWF-Expo

Westtech presents their new machines at 17th KWF Exhibition from 9. – 12.June.2016 in Bavaria (Germany). The KWF-Tagung is the biggest Forestry Demofair in the world. This is the most important international meeting of the forest sector.  Read more

WOODCRACKER awarded “Accessory Equipment of the Year”

The annual meeting of the business magazine “Baublatt Österreich” took place on January 28th, this year for the first time in a special showplace, the castle “Burg Perchtoldsdorf”. As part of the festive ceremony several prizes for outstanding achievements were awarded to companies. Read more

AGRITECHNICA – The World’s No. 1

As the name suggests, Agritechnica constitutes the world’s largest trade fair for agricultural and forestry technology. Also Westtech presents WOODCRACKER forestry technology at the leading trade fair. Read more