products now also includes excavator/
telehandler/utility vehicle cone splitters,
floor-mounted log crackers, and crane and
excavator-mounted log crackers. Adam
added: “We have seen excessive growth
and demand over the past six months
to a year for our Approved Hydraulics
manufactured cone splitters. This is mainly
on the larger-size AH 800 CS unit, but we sell
the smaller ones often as well.”
Reflecting on the forestry market at the
moment, Adam said: “We very rarely see a
dip in sales. As we have such a wide range
of equipment, if one item slows down due
to the season, it’s very likely we are
selling more of something else
to compensate. However,
there is always great room
for manoeuvrability in
the forestry market
as customers are
always looking for the
next best thing and
suppliers are always
producing the next
best thing. This gives us
great scope for the future
to keep expanding our
services and keep offering
customers great, innovative
products.”
The business recently supplied
attachments including two flails, a mulcher,
two stump grinders and two log grabs to a
new customer in Ireland in a deal totalling
around £43,000.
The business has also recently
undergone a slight reorganisation, with
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the aim of offering
a better service to
its customer base. A
new general manager
has come on board and is
updating many of the internal
systems to provide better traceability
and visibility on current jobs, quotations
and aftersales support.
Looking to the future, Adam said: “We
are very interested in getting into some
more bespoke work as we have a great
advantage over many suppliers, throughour years of knowledge and hands-on
engineering. We are always interested in
customer input for this as this is essentially
how we have developed new items over the
past few years.
“We are always expanding our HYDRA-
Part range and this year we are bringing on
a full range of both lever and electric mono-
block control valves. These can be used in
many applications, from recovery trucks
to forestry cranes, and are a cheap, easy
solution for non-proportional hydraulic radio
remote systems that we also sell.”Left: Intermercato
Tigergrip T-Cut 30E tree
shears in the field.Below inset: An
Intermercato GX 28-50
universal grab with
Baltrotors CPR15 rigid
rotor.Below: Approved
Hydraulics has a full range
of standard hydraulic
equipment stocked
in-house.COMPANY PROFILE