Rottne fills a market gap with a new thinning harvester
Rottne does the same thing every Elmia Wood. Not a word about innovations is heard before the fair and then at the fair there is a major surprise. This year’s surprise is the Rottne H10, a thinning harvester in a slightly larger format.
The project manager, Anders Börjesson, says there is a gap in the range of thinning harvesters presently available. Rottne’s in-stand harvester, the H8, has been a big success but it is not suitable for thinning operations done from a strip road. That requires a more powerful machine with the weight and power to balance a long boom. That’s exactly what the new Rottne H10 offers.
“We’ve chosen to make a four-axle machine to reduce the ground pressure but we can also produce it with three axles,” Börjesson says.
The Rottne H10 has an 11-meter boom and the head is a Rottne EGS405, the same as that used with the Rottne H8.
On the forwarder side, Rottne has literally expanded the width and height. The Rottne F18 is expanding the most. The load area has stepless expansion from 5.4 to 8.5 square meters by expanding the load bunks from just under 3 meters to 4.6 meters. The side supports are also telescopic and therefore do not get in the way of the boom when the forwarder has a small load.
The third innovation from Rottne is a harvester head for multi-stem processing with a cutting unit instead of a saw chain. The new head can accumulate four trees with a diameter of 10 cm. It is basically the same head as the Rottne EGS 405 but this biofuel version is considerably simpler, lighter and cheaper. Rottne has also developed a new fastening device that allows the operator to change the head by unscrewing a single bolt.