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Articles Relating to Savannah Equipment Products

Second Rotation Site Prep in a Eucalypt Plantation
March 2002
“The secret of economic second rotation site preparation is in the supervision of the harvesting operation, to ensure low stump height and total wood utilisation”.
by David Heckendorf, Savannah Equipment
Introduction of Big Rotary Stickrake into W.A.
March 2002
...The last of these was recently delivered to contractor Peter Hartridge, of Woodyoke Pty Ltd, Scott River, WA…
by John Bartlam, Savannah Equipment
High Surface Tillage
Forest Products Equipment February 2002 Issue
"When you see this plow running, there is a tremendous amount of energy that pulverizes the soil and leaves a double tilled zone in the center of the bed."
by Kristina Stewart and Mark Sauer
Leucaena as a winter feed
There is no doubt that the introduction of Leucaena has improved grazing potential of tropic and semi tropic rangeland. The plant/tree has the ability to produce vast quantities of feed…
Road Grader In Africa
Costing Comparisons and Testimonials.
B J Potieter, F Manager, Lothair
Dr SJ Joubert Wildlife Manager. Shamwari Game Reserve
Shamwari Game Reserve supervisor, Neville Haller
Blake Schraader

Savannah Graders are completing in excess of 20 kilometres per day at a cost typically one fifth the cost of conventional graders. SAPPI trials where both a conventional grader and the Savannah Grader where hired…
1506 Road Grader in the USA
Quote from Julius Hatcher, Road Superintendent, Mitchell County, Georgia, USA
The Savannah High-Speed Grader has been a terrific find for Mitchell County…
728 BED CONDITIONER
January 2002
...Reports back from Tree Planting Contractors were all positive, with all of them stating that we had the best prepared sites that they had ever planted into. …
New Road Grader Creates Excitement in National Park, S.A.
January 2002
...easily handled even some of the more severe flood damage on other sections of the Fifteen Mile Track and the Cullyamurra Track. The Savannah is a most versatile machine, being both grader and roller. It is articulated by virtue of being towed and as a result, there is less off track damage…
Coastal Plain Forestry, Inc., Pantego, North Carolina
Timber Forest Industry Magazine December/January 2002 Issue
"There are other plows out there, but the Savannah plows really seem to hold out the best. We never had any major problems out of them, and they have proven to be the best plows for our particular operation."
By K. April Womack
Savannah Equipment restores marginal land at affordable price
Queensland Country Life. 15 November 2001
...range of 'one-way' disk ploughs, based on its proven, 'stump-jump' forestry plough technology. These ploughs are capable of deep ploughing and undercutting the root systems of sucker regrowth. The heavy disc cultivation…
Savannah cost effective choice
Queensland Country Life. 1st Nov 2001
….Hurst almost halved his expenses by using the new Savannah model 516 plough to clear sucker growth rather than blade plough the degraded country…
Article by Penelopie Wilkie
Preparation for central Queensland forest plantations moves into "top gear"
April 2001
Site preparation for major new softwood forest plantations at Byfield, near Yeppoon in central Queensland, has moved into top gear with the recent delivery of major plant and equipment.
from the Queensland Government DPI website
Savannah Newsletter December 2000
Includes Artilces
Savannah Road Grader proves versatile
Aboriginal Communities take on the ‘Outback’
New Mounted Offset Disk
Grape Growers purchase Road Grader
Buffer Zones & Dryland Salinity
Savannah tackles the ‘Non-Wettable Sands’
Eric Kaukiainen’s fourth Tomahawk 206
The ‘Bandicoot’ Spot Mounder An Assessment by DPI Forestry, Qld
June 2000
...robust, economical and effective excavator-based implement, suitable for mound construction on poorly drained and environmentally sensitive sites...
by John Grimmett, DPI Forestry, QLD
Remedial Tree Planting Programs
June 2000
Facing the salinity crisis in Aust.
Impressive as the extent of eucalypt plantings carried out this year have been, they may well pale into insignificance once the real transformation of traditional Australian farmland begins…
J-ROOTING: A GROWTH INHIBITOR
January 2000
Military people say that the first rule in warfare is to know your enemy. The first rule in land management is to know your soil.
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST ACACIA PLANTATION
January 2000
...Current operating systems allow a single tractor with a Savannah planter to establish over 1,800 seedlings per hour..
SUBSOILING IN FORESTRY:
January 2000
Over the years, there's been a lot of discussion about subsoiling for the forestry or agricultural industries. With current widespread interest in subsoiling for forest establishment, it is probably relevant to discuss some of the terminology and design techniques used in this industry.
Sustaining Plantation Productivity
August 1999
Foresters from DPI Queensland and North Forest Products, Tasmania, inspecting the Savannah 1242 V-Rake mounted to a TD20 Dozer and the 1030 V-Shear mounted to D7G, at a comparison field day on 'one-pass' site preparation at Beerburrum Qld.
Planter Trials ~ USA
August 1999
We supplied him with our newly released 830 tree planter and Jim was able to successfully complete the extra planting load. He was well satisfied with the results and has ordered two planters for the following 1999, 2000 planting season.
World's largest site prep fleet
August 1999
The USA has seen a massive increase in the amount of equipment being used for mechanical site prep in the forest industry but no greater fleet of equipment is there than Gulf Coast Silviculture Company's ten Dresser TD25G tractors and ten mounted Savannah 410 plows.
Savannah Blade Plow Exceeds all our Expectations
September 1990
So says Ross Armstrong in evaluating their newly purchased 25ft (7.7m) blade plow purpose-built by the Savannah Equipment company to fit to the rippers on the Armstrong Family's new Cat D1ON 'dozer.