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Load logs the race-ace way
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• The 030,000 Goransson Mk III timber loader, developed by top truck racer Curt Goransson, uses a Jonsered 2500 25-tonne/metre crane mounted on a modified Scania 11211 6x6 rigid chassis. Volvo trucks can also be adapted.
The crane, which appeared at last year's forestry exhibition at Cannock Chase, is built onto a platform which has four hydraulically extending supporting legs. It features a heated control cab which stows behind the main cab but can be elevated hydraulically along an angled guide rail.
'['he truck, with its HK frame and heavy haulage bogie, MAN transfer box and Sisu drive/steer front axle, is moved along cleared tracks to the log piles, using all-wheel drive where necessary. Once next to the stack of logs, the driver climbs into the crane cabin, elevates it to get a full view and, using electropneumatic and hydraulic controls for the steering, engine and brakes, can manoeuvre it into position between the stacks and the waiting vehicles. On narrow forest tracks, it is essential to get the loader as close as possible to the logs, so after raising the truck onto its four legs the entire chassis can be moved hydraulically left or right along the extending outrigger beams. The operation, including loading, takes only 15 minutes.
During loading an automatic weighing device, which uses a load cell in the grab hydraulics, keeps a tally of the timber transferred. There is also an automatic overload warning system. So far around 50 of the Goransson loaders have been produced, mainly in Sweden. One Swedish company with a Scania 112H-based Goransson loader is Ingvar Zetterstrom of Stugun, which uses it to load four Scania 143H 6x4 logging drawbars up to 51 tonnes gross train weight.
Sky joins Band
• Sky Television's outside broadcast vehicles are being fitted with Band III mobile radios for use on the GEC National One network. The 22 radios will put the newsroom in touch with the television studios within two seconds, considerably faster than cellular, and will also allow group calls in which the controller can speak to all crews simultaneously.
Renault price IN Comparison charts in the Iveco Ford 0811 Cargo road test (CM 16-22 February) incorrectly attributed the price of the Renault Midliner S08-130 to the Renault-Dodge G08/120, which is actually priced at £15,580.