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Waratah celebrates 50 years of forestry

Waratah Forestry Equipment is celebrating 50 years of innovation within the forestry industry and thanking its customers for decades of trust and loyalty to the brand. Source: Timberbiz

“We’re proud to celebrate our 50th anniversary this year thanks to our loyal customers and dedicated team members across the globe,” said Heather Robinson, general manager of worldwide distribution at Waratah. “It’s exciting, because we are in a unique position to offer our customers experience, expertise and innovation.”

Waratah customers are a testament to the company’s reliability and legacy. While the industry has changed over the last 50 years, Waratah has always been Built To Work – supporting its customers, so they can outsmart and outperform the others.

“We’ve had great experiences with Waratah,” said Reid Lind, owner of GR (Mac) Lind Logging in Princeton, British Columbia. “You know what you’re getting when you buy it. For us, it’s the industry standard.”

Established in 1973 in Tokoroa, New Zealand, the company manufactured a delimber-feller-buncher with a four-roller fixed head to meet local loggers’ heavy-duty delimbing needs. Following that innovation, a red grapple processor manufactured for the Canadian markets marked the start of the 600 Series line. It cemented Waratah’s place as the original red head in the industry.

Today, Waratah’s full line of harvesting, processing and felling heads are used in a variety of logging applications from cut-to-length hardwood harvesting at the stump, to processing on a landing, felling on steep slopes or debarking on plantations.