Eggenberger Forst AG

Our services

• Young growth / young forest care

• Manual or mechanized thinning

• Partially mechanized or fully mechanized timber harvesting under direction, piecework and from the pole

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

Our specialties

• Clearing with forwarder, chipper and shredder

• Wood chips for heating
• Gardening, special woodworking and 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

We introduce ourselves

1990

- Founded by Peter Eggenberger, Swiss certified forester

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

1991

Acquisition:

- second back horse

- MB-Trac 800 with front pole, rear blade, double drum winch

- Hiring of the first permanent forest ranger

1992

Acquisition of a conventional Wyssen cable crane system

1994

Purchase of a Timberjack 810B forwarder

Accession to the Association of Swiss Forestry Contractors (VSFU)

1995

Acquisition: superstructure shredder on forwarder

1996

Purchase: body chipper on forwarder

2003

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

2006

Acquisition:

- Mahler Elefant rope tug

- Felix TWT 140 grapple tractor with Logmax 3000 harvester head

2007

Son Lars joins the company after successfully completing his forest warden apprenticeship with the local municipality of Grabs

2008

Replacement of the Timberjack 810B forwarder with the John Deere 810D forwarder

Acquisition of a Takeuchi 4.5t crawler excavator

2015

Purchase of a felling collector (type: Naarva E25) on the Felix tong tractor