Comments on: Looking for a spider-like piece of heavy machiny

Question: Looking for a spider-like piece of heavy machiny

ruelle — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:14:28 -0800

Please help me find a picture (or the name, or the site) of a surreal scandinavian forestation machine. It's a huge machine on 6 or 8 legs - looks just like a spider - with the cabin nested in the middle and one huge scorpion-like arm for lifting tree trunks. Rings a bell?

Yup, I'm having one of those discussions where no one believes what I saw on the net. *sigh
And I'd love to find that picture again (or alternatively the site that was selling them but which was in finnish, I believe).

All I remember is :
- the spider-like shape of the machine.
- it was used for forestry or perhaps deforestation.
- it was scandinavian-made (perhaps finnish?)
- totally surreal.

Help?

By: nautone

nautone — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:24:03 -0800

the plustech foresting robot

it appears that the official pages have collapsed, unfortunately.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:38:20 -0800

Posted here.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:48:23 -0800

Here's one.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:58:52 -0800

Oh Deere! left this here.

By: Chunder

Chunder — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:55:08 -0800

tellurian: Schweet! ;-)

By: Specklet

Specklet — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:28:02 -0800

Whoa.

By: ruelle

ruelle — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:51:40 -0800

Thank you all, I had no idea it was posted on metafilter. I should have guessed though, this being the "best of the web". :)