The Uralvagonzavod Concern (part of Rostec) has launched the UFM 250HT harvester into series production – a heavy tracked machine for felling, delimbing, and bucking timber. Its gross weight is 27.5 tons. The 140-kilowatt (about 190 horsepower) power unit allows it to climb slopes up to 30 degrees, and the 600–800 millimeter track width provides low ground pressure, keeping the machine stable on swampy logging sites.
Dimensions are 10,050 by 3,170 by 3,558 millimeters. The harvester is capable of both full-tree and cut-to-length harvesting, as well as working in a log yard – bucking full trees into assortments. Thus, one machine covers three operations that previously required different units of equipment.
This is one of the first serial machines of this class of Russian design. Until recently, the niche of heavy harvesters was occupied by Finnish John Deere and Ponsse, as well as Swedish Komatsu.
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