Kesla forest equipment has been designed to be compatible with Valtra tractors, and it can also be fitted at the factory at the Valtra Unlimited customisation studio. In recent years, traditional timber trailer+loader combinations have found their way to farms and urban areas. For example, Kesla trailers and loaders are used for loading, transporting, landscaping and park maintenance. On farms, Kesla cranes are used for feeding cattle and spreading bedding, as well as for lifting bales.
”Traction is a must for forest trailer in the woods.”
Kesla Oyj – Finnish listed company
- Annual net sales of EUR 47.4 million
- 250 employees
- Manufactures forest trailers, forest loaders, truck and stationary cranes, harvester heads, grapples and chippers
- 70% of production exported
- PATU timber loaders rebranded as Kesla loaders in 2006
- Founded in 1960
- Available with mechanical control valves, as well as electronically and hydraulically programmable control valves
- Lifting boom available with remote control winch
- Booms made from Finnish high-strength SSAB Strenx steel
- Boom reach in excess of 10 metres
- A biomass box is available on most forest trailers for transporting brushwood
- KESLA proTraction is an ISOBUS-compatible drive control system that automatically controls Kesla forest trailers at the same speed and in the same direction as the tractor
- Choice of A-type or flap down support legs
- Timber grapples, gravel grapples, bale clamps, material clamps and multifunctional grapples for cutting 18 cm wood
- Lightweight but sturdy 200 x 200 mm single beam frame
- Available with hydraulic Robson drive or wheel motors
- Disc or drum brakes with negative handbrake
