16 AUGUST 2019 FORESTRYJOURNAL.CO.UK
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HUSQVARNA is celebrating
60 years of chainsaw
manufacturing with the release
of a limited-edition vinyl
featuring the sounds of some of
its most iconic models.
Recorded in the forest outside
of Huskvarna, Sweden, the
album contains sounds from
twelve selected chainsaws,
from the 1959 Husqvarna
MS90 to the completely new
2019 Husqvarna 550 XP Mark
II. During the recording, all
chainsaws went through the
typical forestry worker’s tasks:
felling, limbing and crosscutting.Limited to 60 copies in
the UK, the album will also
be available on Spotify and
soundcloud.
Ken Brewster, UK sales
and marketing director,
said: “With this record we
celebrate our 60-year jubilee
of making chainsaws, and
most importantly we celebrate
our customers that have been
using our chainsaws since the
late 1950s. With Husqvarna
chainsaws as our instruments,
we have created a time machine
that lets the listener travel from
1959 to 2019.”S Richardson Contracting, based in
Langholm, Dumfriesshire, has purchased
eight new Doosan DX160LC-5 HT 16-tonne
High Track crawler excavators for work
on the company’s forestry contracts
throughout Scotland and north England.
The new Doosan High Track excavators
were supplied by James Gordon
(Gordons), the authorised dealer for the
Doosan Heavy range in the south-west and
borders regions, as well as the central
belt of Scotland, as far as Argyle and Bute
and the county of Cumbria in northern
England.
Company owner, Simon Richardson,
commented: “We were introduced to
the Doosan DX160LC-5 HT High Track
excavators by Darren Nicholson, sales
manager Cumbria & Borders for Gordons
Construction Equipment. The Doosan
High Track excavators are well-built, fit-
for-purpose machines that have provided
us with many advantages in the forestry
work we do from preparing ground and
mounding work to drainage and building
forestry roads.“The Doosan High Track design allows
us to easily negotiate tree stumps and
other obstacles in forests, traversing sites
much more easily and not having to move/
remove the amount of material we had to
in the past.”
The DX160LC-5 HT excavator combines
the upper structure from Doosan’s
DX140LC-5 14-tonne model with a
heavier-duty 18-tonne-class high-track
undercarriage, increasing the ground
clearance from 410 mm in the DX140LC-
to an impressive 615 mm. In its standard
configuration, the digging depth of the
DX160LC-5 HT is 5,355 mm, the digging
height is 8,940 mm and the digging reach
is 8,080 mm.
Simon Richardson added: “Unlike our
previous excavators which were specially
modified, the Doosan DX160LC-5 HTs are
purpose-built machines for the forestry
and rough terrain work we undertake.
We initially tried out a DX160LC-5 HT
from Gordons and it performed really
well and our operators liked the machine.
So it was an easy decision to purchase
more of them, particularly when they are
part of the excellent package offered by
Gordons combining reliable service and
maintenance with their fast response.”
S Richardson Contracting employs a
team of highly skilled machine operators
with great experience in the forestry
industry. In addition to tree felling and
thinning, the company undertakes road
and track maintenance within Forestry
Commission and private land, and tree
replanting projects, together with land
ploughing contracts prior to re planting.
The company has been in the business
since 2003 and has worked all over the
Scottish mainland and islands, making
ground ready for tree planting.Forestry firm opts for
Doosan fleet
HUSQVARNA DROPS LIMITED-EDITION VINYL