EBF-C bark beetle cutter

Due to severe storm damage, forest protection authorities in spruce forests are forced to take immediate action to prevent a bark beetle outbreak. To do this, they usually strip the bark completely from the trunk in order to destroy the bark beetles or deprive them of their habitat. However, stripping the bark from the trees prevents the forest from regenerating and leads to a massive loss of biodiversity. As a compromise to complete debarking, scoring the trunks is a viable option. The bark beetle requires an area of approximately 5 cm² to thrive; by scoring the trunk, the beetle’s habitat is removed without significantly restricting the forest’s natural regeneration. The EDER – bark beetle cutter EBF-C has 4 knives that score the trunk at a distance of 24 mm, thus enabling rapid scoring of the entire trunk. The Eder bark beetle cutter can be attached to a wide variety of standard chainsaws as an attachment kit.