Looking for a spider-like piece of heavy machiny

August 7, 2005 10:14 PM

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?

posted by ruelle to Technology (7 answers total)

Best answer: the plustech foresting robot

it appears that the official pages have collapsed, unfortunately.
posted by nautone at 10:24 PM on August 7, 2005

Best answer: Posted here.
posted by tellurian at 10:38 PM on August 7, 2005

Here's one.
posted by tellurian at 10:48 PM on August 7, 2005

Oh Deere! left this here.
posted by tellurian at 10:58 PM on August 7, 2005

tellurian: Schweet! ;-)
posted by Chunder at 7:55 AM on August 8, 2005

Whoa.
posted by Specklet at 9:28 AM on August 8, 2005

Response by poster: Thank you all, I had no idea it was posted on metafilter. I should have guessed though, this being the "best of the web". :)
posted by ruelle at 9:51 AM on August 11, 2005