trees. Even more so today foresters and loggers on Bennett lands are trying new
methods of harvesting and management that are light on the land and are placing
a greater emphasis on thinnings and harvests that promote overall forest health.
Conventional equipment can be inefficient when working in these "new forestry"
treatments. With changes in logging practices and techniques, new technology is
needed. New ways of thinking require new ways of doing; cut-to-length harvesting
helps fill this gap.
Originally developed in Scandinavia, cut-to-length harvesting, or CTL, is a logging
system comprised of two machines - a harvester and a forwarder. The harvester
cuts the tree, delimbs it and then cuts it into log lengths and places them in a pile.
After cutting, a forwarder grabs the cut logs and hauls them to a landing or loads
them directly onto a waiting truck for transport to the mill. This system is considered
as state-of-the-art in the logging world.
