Thunderous Cacophony said:
EDIT:
According to the lovely people on the
Farming Simulator forums, I learned the term "Ponsse forwarder." Ponsse is the company, and forwarder is the generic name for that type of vehicle. I have no idea which one it is (
Ponsse makes a lot of them), but I'll go for the ElephantKing purely for the cool name.
Oh yay a new one to lose hours in... lol
Actually, that is probably a Harvester, not a Forwarder. E.g.
http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/products/equipment/harvesters/tracked_harvesters/703jh/703jh.page?
Forwarders go around and pickup the little 'bushels' of logs from fallen trees, but Harvesters are the part that actually cut the tree, and some variants (as the one shown) will cut them to length as well. when they are at length usually a Forwarder can then come and grab them up, otherwise, it is usually a skidder that has to drag them out of the bush and leaves them in one place for them to be delimbed, and cut to length.
Of course all of this is going off memory from like 15-20 years ago so who knows what has changed since then.