CUSTOMER / SONÖ JORD & SKOG AB
“As a Dual operator I make all the decisions”
BO NOAKSSON CHOSE A WINNING COMBINATION Bo Noaksson has over 55 years of experience working in forests, yet he still enjoys his work. He likes both harvesting and transportation and is more than happy with the Dual concept as it allows him to do both jobs with the same machine. “Forests and people have a lot in common: you have to bring out the best qualities in each one,” says Bo who has also worked with young people as an athletics coach. Sites like these have become the trademark of Sonö Jord & Skog AB, the forestry company owned by Bo and his grandson Fredrik Gustafsson. The two men appreciate these varied jobs that often involve both forest and landscape management tasks. This view is shared by Sonny Pettersson who started working for the company in 2007 and was also a partner in the company for nine years. THE VERSATILE DUAL CONCEPT
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t is a beautiful May day in the coastal area of Roslagen in Sweden. The entrepreneur's working environment seems almost idyllic in the middle of the birdsong and little white flowers known as wood anemones. The owner of two PONSSE BuffaloDuals, forest machine entrepreneur Bo Noaksson climbs down from his machine and sits down next to a stack of aspen. “There is a bit of everything here – conifers and deciduous trees, logs and pulpwood. There is also some old pastureland which needs work, so there is a lot of thinning to do. This is a versatile work site and it feels great to see the results of my work,” Bo says and smiles.
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“We were already familiar with the BuffaloDual and realised that a ten-wheel model would be the perfect solution for sites with very soft soil,” Bo says.
It is characteristic of Sonö Jord & Skog that work is done using a BuffaloDual which is both a harvester and a forwarder. Bo bought the first machine in 2003. Back then it was the third Dual machine imported into Sweden. “During the past four years we have only used BuffaloDuals,” Bo says. One of them was bought in 2013 and it's the world's first and so far the only ten-wheel BuffaloDual. “Hargs Bruk, one of our customers, asked us to find a suitable solution for sites with very soft soil. First we thought about buying a machine that is designed for soft soil areas, but we were not sure about its performance. We were already familiar with the BuffaloDual and realised that a ten-wheel model would be a perfect solution for the problem,” Bo says. “Ponsse took the idea and designed a tailored model for us.”
