Logging equipment

Fire is one of the most destructive natural disasters. People have always viewed fire with caution and respect - a powerful force that is very difficult to fight. One of the types of fires that occur in the timber industry is the fire that arises on forest machinery.

Unfortunately, there are no precise statistics on fires in forest machinery. This is due to many reasons: concealment of facts from higher management to avoid penalties, and from supervisory authorities and the public due to the unwillingness to pay fines and look unattractive in the eyes of customers and competitors.

Therefore, often only the brigade or site knows about the fires if they did not lead to the complete destruction of the equipment and did not turn into forest fires.

However, from our experience of communicating with employees of enterprises "without protocol," we know that fires on forest machinery happen quite often.

Most often, fires occur on harvesters and forwarders, less often, loaders and bulldozers catch fire. Frequent fires on harvesters and forwarders are due to their heavy workload (usually the equipment works in two or three shifts), as well as the fact that in hard-to-reach places, chips, small branches, and needles accumulate.

The scariest thing is that a fire on logging equipment often leads to a forest fire. Moreover, this is a disaster in itself, it is a loss of money because the burned forest area is not suitable for harvesting, and the fire destroys raw materials.

For logging equipment, SSPB has developed and successfully implemented an automatic fire extinguishing system.

Application

• feller-bunchers
• forwarders
• harvesters
• skidders (tractor-skidders)
• log loaders
• processors
• excavators
• bulldozers
• front-end loaders
• generators