Westtech-Days – 10 Years Westtech

In perfect summer weather, the 10th anniversary of Westtech took place on the 25th and 26th June 2015. Numerous national and international guests accepted the invitation to the merchant’s day on Thursday and to the visitor’s day on Friday. Read more

Woodcracker – Westtech’s Forestry Machines

Asturforesta – the international exhibition for forestry on the Iberian peninsula takes place from 18th to 20th of June 2015, in the forests of Armayán, Tineo, Asturias, Spain. Read more

First Woodcracker in use on the Bosporus in Turkey!

Recently, the first Woodcracker harvester was set in operation in cooperation with Westtech trading partner Forsen Machinery Services & Trading Inc., domiciled in Istanbul. Read more

Woodcracker C550 Operated For Harvesting In South Africa

Eucalyptus trees, having a diameter of 55 to 60 cm, located in a stream bed which is used as flooding zone, were harvested in South Africa. This measure was on the authority of the state of South Africa aiming at an unobstructed spreading of water in case of flood. Although eucalyptus is one of the hardest types of wood, the harvest was successfully conducted by using the tree cutter Woodcracker C550. Read more

Woodcracker“ Put To The Test – Sustainable Biomass Utilization In Namibia

The increasing bush growth represents a growing problem in Namibia, which makes livestock farming difficult and uses up scarce water resources. The conventional manual harvest is hardly applicable due to the extremely hard and prickly bush… Read more

Woodcracker Best Practice Days in Bad Hersfeld (Germany)

In October 2014, Westtech arranged two Best Practice Days relating to the safe harvest of wood, in cooperation with the public enterprise Hessen-Forst. Read more

Splitting of timber, why?

Higher calorific value
The existing water, from the wet logs and later the chips, has to vaporize from the wooden pieces before burning in the heater. The calorific value drops significant with this process. If the logs are split and dried from 50 % to 25 % moisture, then the heating value rises about 60 %!!! Read more

Interforst 2014 – 50,000 enthusiastic visitors!

Number of international visitors continues to rise

The Interforst exhibition 2014 can be perfectly satisfied with the performance: 450 exhibitors, 288 of them national and 162 international companies from 27 countries presented the latest products and innovations for forestry. The number of international exhibitors rose by 25%, more and more international visitors were present too.

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Innovative Forestry Technology of Woodcracker

Interforst 2014 in Munich: From 16. – 20. June 2014 the exhibition Interforst takes place at the Munich trade fair centre. Read more

The Boat – The Complete Trailer!

Professional tree chopping on the waterway

For implementation of flood protection measurements trees had to be cut down along a bank, where the only accessible way to reach the trees was the waterway. The harvest was taken out with the flexible cutting head Woodcracker C450 attached on a Liebherr 924 long reach excavator which was provides by Grünland GmbH from Saxony (Germany).