Founder Q&A: DC Equipment

DC Equipment saves peoples lives through the mechanisation of equipment for steep slope harvesting. Their equipment removes people from harms way.

What products, services, solutions or technology have you developed?

We started developing a Grapple Carriage that removed people off the forestry hill in the “breaking-out” phase of logging, which is hooking strops onto trees for extraction, and where there is very high risk of injury to loggers.

The Carriage is operated from inside a protective cab and has a camera system in the carriage with real time video being sent to the operator so the operator can see where the trees are to be able to extract. The camera system is infrared allowing us to operate in the dark which allows us to harvest at night if required, allowing efficiency gains.

Before we introduced the Grapple Carriage, we were unable to harvest outside daylight hours. We then used the camera system to be developed for a Swing Yarder operation re...