From time to time we at Eco Log go out to visit our customers and take part of their everyday life with the machines. Here we gather films and reports from our visits. Find out more about our customers opinions of the machines and what a day in the forest can look like when Eco Log comes to visit.
As we visit Sveaskog in the middle of August they have had their new Eco Log 560G no more than two weeks. But Bengt and Mattias has already got the hang of it. For Bengt, it is no less than the fifth Eco Log, and there is no question he knows how to handle the machines.
In 1983 the family business Sydgallringar was founded, and we find them in the forests outside of Halmstad. Today, the two brothers, Torgny and Sven Henriksson, owns it and alongside with them works their three sons – Albin, Emil and Axel.
It is a glorious early summer day when we go out to visit Storstu Logging on the island Flatgarn in Mälaren. We meet at the pier where Oskar Persson, owner of the company, arrives with the boat to give us a ride out to the small island and their new machine, an Eco Log 580G, that is operated by his father, Johan Persson.
In February 2024 the very first G series harvester, an Eco Log 560G, was delivered to Hedesunda Skogsgallring. The company is owned by Erik Engstrand, but Henrik is the one who operates the new machine.
More than twenty years ago, Tommy Berglund operated a harvester from Eco Log for the first time. Since then, the pendulum arm technique has been Tommy´s thing and today he owns no less than four Eco Log harvesters in his company Berglund´s Skog & Entreprenad AB.
Since 2009, Johan Mattsson runs his company Krycklinge Skog outside Uppsala. He has been working in the forest since 1998 and has operated both Skogsjan, Caterpillar and now, several harvesters from Eco Log. His latest, and thereby ninth harvester from Eco Log, arrived about a month ago – a 590F equipped with a EC 661LF harvester head.
In the forests around Sala we find Mattias Hedqvist and Tim Tuvunger Jakobsson. Mattias owns the company and is thereby Tims employer, but as we meet them it is obvious they know each other well and that they are, above all, close friends
In the premises of Sala Maskinservice an Eco Log 560D is ready for its service, and Tobias Lindbom and Henrik Westholm is just about to start the work. Tobias, or Tobbe as he is ususally called, is one of four co-owners in the company that was started in 2017. The experience of servicing Eco Log machines however, extends far further back in time than that.
Since one year, Frida Larsson and Patrik Bodin have been running the well-established family business Anders Larssons Skogsentreprenad in Hälsingland, a province in central Sweden. Before them, Frida’s parents ran the company for more than thirty years, and being able to take over therefore means a lot to her.
Frans Spetz got his first chainsaw at the age of 15, and since then the forest has been a given as his workplace. The independence associated with the work and the forest environment are what make being a forest machine operator the best job around, according to Frans.
Growing up on the family estate, a farmhouse including a forested area in the Alfta district of central Sweden, Emil Perjans gained an interest in forestry at an early age. Working in the forest is ideal to Emil, who appreciates both the freedom as well as the loneliness that comes with the job.
Together with his five employees, Henrik Norgren works the southern forests of Hälsingland in central Sweden – from Edsbyn in the west to Söderhamn in the east. His company, H. Norgrens Entreprenad AB, conducts assignments on behalf of the forest owners association Mellanskog and currently has four Eco Log machines harvesting in two teams.
In 2007, Per Erik Sjöström founded the forestry company Hummelbo Skogsenergi AB. The forest has always been an important part of Per Erik’s life, and it’s also where he spends the majority of his time. The forest he owns today has been passed down through many generations.
Together with his mother and sister, Marcus Andersson runs Boda-Arkens Skogs & Lantbruksservice. To Boda-Arken there are several reasons why they have chosen Eco Log machines. These include easy servicing, reliability and leveling that makes it easy to climb slopes and navigate in difficult terrain.
For more than 20 years, Anders Eriksson and Anders Gustavsson have worked the forests around Nyköping, where together they run the company Gustavssons Gräv och Skog. Today they own two Eco Log 688s and according to Anders Eriksson, choosing these eight-wheeled harvesters is the best thing the company has done.
Outside Vingåker we find Lindbloms Skogsentreprenad, which is owned and run by Henrik Lindblom. Henrik has chosen to operate Eco log due to its serviceability, reliability and productivity.
