According to Oleg Lobashev, designer at Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ), the Belarusian company exhibited some trial models of forestry equipment at Lesdrevteh-2007 trade show.
Lobachev said that visitors were mostly impressed by two models of drum-type crushers driven ether by tractor power takeoff or by independent engine. The mass production of these crushers is planned for 2007. their trial versions are now tested at Belarusian forestry enterprises.
The MTZ`s crushing mill МR-40 is fully self-contained with its Kesla mill and the handling unit made by the Mozirsk engineering plant. The mill fitted within a separate frame is powered by 260 h.p. engine. МR-40 is transported by Belarus-1221-L tractor, and it can process logs of up to 400 mm into fines. Its capacity is 40 cubic meters per hour.
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