Re: OT: Mac spotting?

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:39:12 +0200, Jochem Huhmann <joh@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

This is really spooky. Last month I have been hiking for 10 days in a
region here in Germany that very much lives off forests and in the
village we rented a flat for a base there were a "wood market" which
displayed some such monsters.

Talking of monsters, imagine seeing this walking out of the woods!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2V8GFqk_Y

Timberjack / John Deere is the same make / range as we were watching
yesterday.

These things felled trees, stripped off all
the branches, cut the trees in managable pieces and, optionally, chopped
the wood into chips, streaming them into a lorry.


Yup, eerie things to watch.

I joked to my GF that
the next version probably would be extended to put out readily made
rolls of toilet paper at the other end.

;-)

That beast was fittingly called
"Harvester".

Yup, the harvester goes in front (or a multi / batch harvester can
gather up many smaller trees in one 'grab') and the forwarder comes
behind and loads them onto itself.

While we were hiking about there we often saw hills where there were
strips of forests harvested like any other crop.

And that's all these plantations are isn't it, 'crop'. What I like is
the diverse range of uses they can put every last chip of sawdust to
these days. Either 'special' man made wood, like chip board to bigger
'bits' as with Sterling board. They even have special chippers for
making fuel burner sized chips.

Two or three people
with alien looking machinery going over a hill and cutting huge strips
of forest down to almost nothing in almost no time at all. Spooky.

Especially that walking one!

But
then, renewable resources are in the end just industry as any other and
I certainly like to see this rather than another nuclear power station.

Hmm, not sure about that myself but then I don't know the whole story
so ...

Cheers, T i m
.

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