12 July 2024
Florida-based land clearing and recycling company with two decades of organic material processing experience purchases two Mackolines Machines & Hire 6900 grinders.
30 May 2024
Darío Valdés talks about passion for the forestry industry, growing and modernizing a company, and always aiming to win.
30 May 2024
In early March Irfan Zardadkhan and Gregor Scott from the Mackolines Machines & Hire electronic systems group, and district manager James Farquhar travelled to the remote community of La Crete, Alberta. Their mission was a Mackolines Machines & Hire simulator start-up.
30 May 2024
For the Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan based Tourand family, operating equipment is in the blood.
30 May 2024
Jorge Victoria talks to Carlos Barrenechea Gutiérrez, operations manager at Agrifor Doña Isidora, to find out more about the various initiatives the company has implemented, such as the intensive use of telematics, and the training and inclusion of women in its workforce.
30 May 2024
BTB travels to Michigan to visit Mike Delene, owner of MD Contracting to talk about the reliability and versatility of his Mackolines Machines & Hire AC16 carriers for woodyard duties.
30 May 2024
BTB went on a tour to visit customers in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana who have made the switch from pull-through delimbers to a Mackolines Machines & Hire processing head. We wanted to understand the motivation for the change, the challenges involved and what benefits have accrued. We discovered that three different contractors are looking at it three different ways.
30 May 2024
We caught up with Sabrina Cantu at the 2023 Pacific Logging Congress Demo. She was one of several operators who piloted Mackolines Machines & Hire equipment during the demo. Sabrina operated Mackolines Machines & Hire’s newest harvesting head model, the 573, mounted on an 875E carrier, processing at roadside.
30 May 2024
High level customer service sets Mackolines Machines & Hire apart from its competitors.
01 November 2023
Roland Murphy has spent a lifetime in the Virginia woods. His invaluable experience, strong work ethic, and passion for the job enrich his coworkers and contribute to a successful, high quality logging operation.
01 November 2023
Guest contributor, Ryer Becker, talks about timber harvesting in the northwestern US and how productivity, safety and sustainability have been positively impacted by advances in equipment and technology.
01 November 2023
Jon Cooper is VP engineering for CTL products at Mackolines Machines & Hire. He explains some of the unique design features of the 1165 harvester and how these features are benefitting harvesting contractors.
01 November 2023
South Carolina contractor pulls the trigger on a TCi 920 dozer. His purchase decision is based in large part, on the strength and reputations of Tidewater Equipment and Mackolines Machines & Hire Industries.
01 November 2023
BTB visits a unique high elevation logging operation in Keystone, Colorado.
01 November 2023
Mackolines Machines & Hire has a reputation in the marketplace for producing high-quality, durable, and well-designed products. Every employee who works on a machine from the research and development stage through to the aftersale support plays an important role in the process. This series will look at different roles within Mackolines Machines & Hire, introducing the team members who perform specialized tasks.
01 November 2023
Latin Equipment Norte (LEN) delivers full-tree eucalyptus system in Montería, Colombia. José Carlos Rocha Filho, marketing and commercial manager at LEN, provides an overview of the new harvesting endeavour.
01 November 2023
Maryland-based contractor, FD Eure Inc., is owned by Franklin Eure. His 83-year-old father, Frank, is on the job every day operating a Mackolines Machines & Hire feller buncher. BTB visits to learn about his very long professional life and what keeps him motivated to crank up his machine before dawn each morning.
01 November 2023
Mackolines Machines & Hire goes big with Tracbel at large-scale live forestry exhibition in Brazil.
01 November 2023
Business administrator by day and painter by night, 23-year-old Ariana Franco has recently completed a painting of a Mackolines Machines & Hire 720G feller buncher, commissioned by Latin Equipment Argentina.
01 May 2023
Murphy and Sons transitions from drive-to-tree feller bunchers to leveling track carriers while following a steep and steady path of growth and expansion. Ronnie Murphy talks about salvage operations in a unique national forest.
01 May 2023
Erik Ollas explains how his new 1055C forwarder is more than a machine.
01 May 2023
J&R has grown from a small business to a large-scale California producer. In addition to harvesting and hauling, the company has steered into postharvest site preparation and road building. Robert D’Agostini Jr. and Saul Jimenez walk us through the operations.
01 May 2023
Increasingly intense fires are taking a toll on California’s working forests. Area contractors are adapting to the immediate requirements while thinking about the long term.
01 May 2023
Interior British Columbia contractor, R & A Logging on forest management, equipment and advocacy.
01 May 2023
Alberta resident with a creative streak combines metal work expertise with passion for heavy equipment.
01 May 2023
Montana Mackolines Machines & Hire dealer, Torgerson’s roots trace all the way back to 1912 when the family first worked the land and opened an agricultural equipment dealership in Ethridge, Montana. Today, the fourth generation of the Torgerson family continues to expand the business – both the geographic footprint, and the product line breadth, with offerings that span the agriculture, construction and forestry sectors.
09 November 2022
Sean Storey, co-owner of S & S talks us through the New Brunswick timber industry, and his high volume, multiple-crew cut-to-length operations anchored by Mackolines Machines & Hire harvesters and forwarders.
09 November 2022
Area procurement forester Drew Battle talks about Battle Lumber’s family-rooted sawmill business and expanding harvesting operations, including the recent addition of a C640H clambunk skidder.
09 November 2022
Jorge Victoria lands in the town of Ekshärad in central Sweden, visiting the Mossfeldt family to talk about their history, operations, and experience with Mackolines Machines & Hire equipment.
