Honestly, logging is the most manual labor intensive part of Farming Simulator. There is no automation.
There’s no automatic pick up for the logs, let alone getting them into piles you can actually load onto a trailer with the equipment provided.
Well, modders to the rescue!
We’re going to give you our top list of some awesome logging mods for Farming Simulator 19. With so many machines they forgot to include, such as skidders and feller bunchers, and upgrades to the stuff they did include… well this list will make your logging experience far more enjoyable (and profitable).
Everyone was disappointed they didn’t add excavators to Farming Simulator in this release. Well here we have a solution: an excavator forestry mulcher.
You can use this machine to cut trees, grind stumps, or simply grind logs into wood chips which can be loaded up and sold.
This is such a great way to get rid of those stumps without a cumbersome machine to try and get around that whole mess.
With only a few choices in vanilla trailers, this mods adds some great variety to your operation.
These are large pole logging trailers, specifically. There is no pole length logging equipment in the game.
That means that they’re made to carry the longest of logs.
The poles that stick up off of the sides, also known as the bunks, swivel between the trailer and the truck. No longer do you have to drag your logs along the ground the sell them at full length.
Fully equipped with a brush guard package, front loader, and a rear skidder!
You read that right: a rear mount skidder attachment.
You can finally drag your logs out of the woods the old fashioned way. This tractor makes a great addition to the game, even if it didn’t add such a great feature that the devs seemed to neglect.
The John Deere 948L is a 300 horsepower machine with options for wheels, tires, color and capacity.
This machine comes in John Deere green or John Deere black. Paintable wheels and boom as well.
Back right up to a pile of logs and quickly drag them out of the woods all together. This makes it easy to just sit your loader up and bring trucks in to load.
And this is much easier than trying to get the loader and the huge trailers around in the mess that is logging.
Now this little tractor attachment doesn’t look like much. But what it does is huge.
This adds a winch and chain system to the game.
Cut and pile your logs, then chain them all together and pull them out of the woods.
I’m sure this was extremely hard to code, and the devs of this mod did a fantastic job.
Also it has the ability to winch the logs against the heel of the attachment, to put weight on the tractor. This gives you greater traction, allowing you to pull more than you would usually get out of the same tractor.
This mod pack does actually include equipment, but we’re just going to talk about it as a pack of logging maps.
The equipment is pretty good, though and should be gone through as well.
The base maps, including the DLC, do not have very big logging areas.
They expect you to plant a few trees in a field and replant often.
Well these maps remove all the need for that. The maps included here where designed specifically with logging in mind, so they have more trees than anyone should ever want to cut.
This gives a much more authentic logging experience, not to mention it’s far more enjoyable not having to wait for the trees to grow.
