Eggenberger Forst AG

Our services

• Young growth / young forest maintenance

• Manual or mechanical thinning

• Partially or fully mechanized timber harvesting on a contract, piecework, or stumpage basis

• Timber transport with forwarders, grapple tractors, cable tractors, conventional cable crane systems, and mobile cable cranes

Our specialties

• Clearing of felled trees with forwarders, chippers, and shredders

• Wood chips for heating
• Garden and special tree felling as well as tree care

Sale and delivery of naturally durable chestnut/acacia wood for pergolas, playground equipment, avalanche barriers, etc., as well as firewood and industrial wood

About us

1990

- Founded by Peter Eggenberger, Swiss certified forester

- Initial inventory: chainsaw, hand tools, 1 logging horse

1991

Acquisition:

- Second logging horse

- MB-Trac 800 with front log grapple, skidding blade, double drum winch

- Hiring of the first permanent forest ranger

1992

Purchase of a conventional Wyssen cable crane system

1994

Purchase of a Timberjack 810B forwarder

Joining the Association of Swiss Forest Contractors (VSFU)

1995

Purchase: forwarder-mounted shredder

19

Purchase: Mounted chipper on forwarder

2003

Certification of the company (Q-Label, FSC, PEFC)

2006

Acquisition:

- Mahler Elefant cable tractor

- Felix TWT 140 grapple harvester with Logmax 3000 harvester head

2007

After successfully completing his forestry apprenticeship, son Lars joins the company in the local community of Grabs.

2008

The Timberjack 810B forwarder is replaced by the John Deere 810D forwarder.

Purchase of a Takeuchi 4.5t crawler excavator.

2015

Purchase of a feller buncher (type: Naarva E25) on a Felix grapple tractor.