Husqvarna? They've been in the US for as long as I can remember.
Ah. Ah I see now. I saw your profile comment first.
So here's why using my Husky 137 and 365 is not a good idea at work: Insurance. Forestry and Logging are the most dangerous professions in the US. That's a lot of why logging equipment became a big thing--when you're running a Ponsse or some other kind of Harvester your company's professional liability insurance is *significantly lower* because you're operating a robotic crane from inside a protected cab.
Cabs on Alstors, Ponsses, John Deeres, etc are built to take a strike from a falling tree. I've seen cabs take direct hits before from large trees and the operator gets out just fine. But if you're running a saw, and the tree does a barber chair, or comes back at you, *you are gonna be squished*
I've only had one fatality on a logging operation, and it was an Amish Sawyer who mis-read the lean on a big ash tree and it killed him.
the second you get out of a cab and run a saw, your insurance rates will double or triple.
so yeah, I spent years working as a wildland firefighting sawyer, and was a saw module boss by the end of that adventure. but I cannot afford the insane insurance rates, nor could I afford to get hurt or killed when my entire family depends on my paycheck.
Plus in a machine you can cut about 15 times faster, and that same Alstor can *haul* thousands of kilograms of logs out of the woods once the cutting is done.
so yeah I still have my Huskies on me when I'm at work. but I do not use them unless it's an emergency.
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