The three-year machine operator qualification sees students operate Logset simulators and forest machines.
Sedu Ähtäri forestry school campus in Tuomarniemi, Finland is surrounded by beautifully green summer trees and a lake. Forest machine operator students will study here. The new intake of 32 students will get to operate a Logset 8H GTE Hybrid harvester that was delivered to the school in spring 2020. The school also has a Logset 5F GT forwarder from 2018 and a new Logset simulator.
In the future, Logset can offer forest machine training for customers and dealers through the school. The collaboration is possible now that the school has the required equipment. The school decided to invest in the hybrid system to lead the way by being the first forestry school to utilise hybrid technology in the education.
Sedu leases the harvester from Logset. To renew the machines through leasing agreements is getting more common. Leasing agreements lighten the economic situation of the schools by removing heavy one-time investments. Also, the agreements make it possible to update the machines more often. Lately the resources used for education have been cut which makes big investments almost impossible. At the same time the schools need to be up to date. Especially the technical side and the measuring device of the harvesters develop fast. However, students still need to learn to use the latest technology. Everyone gains from it: the school, the students and the region’s forest entrepreneurs. Source