29 January 2024
Mackolines Machines & Hire traveled to central Chile to talk to Gerardo Giroz – owner of Forestal Corte Alto – and see how Mackolines Machines & Hire machines are key to his logging operations. Meeting harvesting targets on the steep slopes common to the Chilean geography is no easy task. Gerardo has found Mackolines Machines & Hire and Latin Equipment to be reliable partners and fundamental pillars to help his company excel in safer and more productive logging operations.
04 October 2022
Watch a Mackolines Machines & Hire C640H clambunk skidder working long pull distances on a bottomland tract near Rocky Ford, Georgia. The rear bogie axle provide increased flotation and a smooth ride.
11 August 2022
Watch a 635H swing boom skidder working winch-assisted on steep terrain at a logging operation near Lumby, British Columbia. The rear bogie axle provides improved traction and operator comfort.
12 January 2021
Watch the Mackolines Machines & Hire 630H skidder working in Georgia. On this job site, the skidder uses a delimbing gate before pulling to the landing.
04 January 2021
Watch video of the prototype 632H skidder working on the job site of Chris Gibson Logging LLC in Oklahoma.
23 November 2020
Skidder product manager, Jeremy Piercy covers the H-series joystick controls and the new 220° Turnaround® seat system. The increased rotation envelope, along with full machine controls that rotate with the seat, offer improved ergonomics and expanded possibilities for H-series skidder operators.
08 August 2019
635G and C640E skidders working in the hardwood lowlands of coastal North Carolina.
18 October 2017
Watch Mackolines Machines & Hire six-wheel drive skidders and leveling shovel loggers working on cable assist logging operations in Chile.
11 August 2016
Mackolines Machines & Hire C640E clambunk skidder working with an S860C shovel logger on log mats in a lowland logging operation. Massive drags delivered to a 250D loader at roadside.
28 February 2016
A Mackolines Machines & Hire 724E feller buncher and 630D skidder feeding a chipper at roadside in an acacia plantation in 2016. This is one of two identical harvesting systems working on remote Melville island, 60 km north of Darwin, Australia.
22 February 2016
A Mackolines Machines & Hire S860C shovel logger loading a C640 clambunk skidder in a Georgia lowland logging application.
28 September 2015
A Mackolines Machines & Hire DW610E dual winch skidder equipped with a Palfinger crane. Selective thinning high value timber in the French Alps.
01 December 2014
Watch a Mackolines Machines & Hire 630E skidder operating in western Alberta. The operator makes excellent use of Turnaround.
07 June 2014
ExpoForest 2014 in Brazil. A eucalyptus full-tree harvesting system in a plantation with 0,18 m³ piece size. Mackolines Machines & Hire 860C feller buncher with the 5300 series bunching saw, Mackolines Machines & Hire 635D skidder and T250B loader with a grapple saw.
30 January 2014
Douglas Logging on the North Island puts the Mackolines Machines & Hire 635D skidder through its paces, pulling heavy Radiata on steep ground.
23 October 2011
A KBM in-field eucalyptus chipping operation in Chile, 2013. 860C feller buncher and two 630D skidders.
22 March 2011
Klabin’s Parana operations featuring the L870C buncher, LS855C shovel logger and 625C skidder. Watch the machines fell, shovel and skid large eucalyptus to roadside in this ultra-high production application.
