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At Southstar, our innovative team is committed to developing, designing, and manufacturing the best in forestry attachments. Southstar provides high quality, durable attachments that automate your harvesting and processing, maximizing productivity no matter the environment. Our wide range of attachments suit any size stem, are versatile in any terrain, and are exceptionally powerful—whether they’re felling, delimbing, sawing, or stacking. Built for durable, optimal performance, our machinery requires minimal maintenance while providing maximum strength and efficiency.

Products

QS635

QS605

QS505

FD750

QS630

QS600

QS500

QS450
Harvesting Processor Heads

Harvesting Heads are designed for the toughest harvesting environments and the largest sized stems.

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Felling Heads

These heavy duty directional felling heads are packed full of design features that set them apart from the competition, and are designed for tough felling environments and large sized stems.

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Grapple Processor Heads

Grapple Processor Heads are designed to be able to sort, shovel and load like a grapple and process and measure and cut with all the advantages of a Southstar processor.

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Equipment Specialists Working Hard For You

We work hard so that your equipment works hard—and at Southstar, we’re always learning and improving. Founded in 2008 on the premise of bringing novel ideas to forestry mechanization, we are dedicated to meeting loggers’ needs with each new product. Our attachments are carefully crafted and backed by years of learning from customers, advancements in progressive design, and service in the industry. Through comprehensive analysis, all of our products are rigorously tested before they’re manufactured. Contact us—our specialists are dedicated to finding you the ideal product for your wood harvesting and processing needs.

Products In Action

Traction and Torque

See the Southstar QS505 Grapple Processor in action. Its impressive traction and torque can handle small to medium-sized logs in no time. This machine is designed to perform multiple capabilities in one sleek configuration—without sacrificing any of the power. The QS505 not only sort, shovels, and loads logs; it can also measure and cut like a processor. 

 

Here, on-site in North Carolina with Moore Logging, the QS505 quickly sorts, loads, measures, and cuts pine with effective and smooth control. This attachment has a 34” butt saw and a 25.5” top saw, a powerful delimb section, and a feed speed of 18-25 feet per second. The multi-functionality of the QS505 is sure to maximize your uptime and bring the power to your job site with its 4×4 drive system. Plus, true to the quality and durability that you’ve come to expect from Quado, the QS505 has components that are built to last.

Watch the FD750 Handle a Heavy Duty Job

The FD750 Directional Felling Head is the best option for heavy duty jobs. It can handle large size trees with the cutting edge capabilities that Quadco is known for. With its optimum operating size of 5 – 55” in diameter, the FD750 is made for larger trees and has an angled tip grip for improved shoveling and stacking capabilities while its Wide Chassis Structure brings you the best in structural strength. Plus the Clean Hose Through design, with a swivel or rotation option, gives you ease of use and protects your hoses. 

In this Spokane forest, Danielson Logging operators demonstrate the force and functionality of the FD750 on the timber pro machine. Built to last, this attachment comes equipped with a DGlide bushing material and a Taper lock collar to minimize wear and extend the life of your product. After all, Bob Danielson chooses to exclusively use Quadco Group products for a reason—they get the job done again and again.

Southstar's Saw System at Work

Here with Danielson Logging in St. Maries, ID, the FD750 Directional Felling Head gets the tough jobs done with its powerful clearing, shoveling, and sorting capabilities. The Southstar saw system easily cuts through trees between 5-55” in diameter while the angled tip grips improve your hold when shoveling or stacking. The FD750’s Wide Chassis Structure is designed to bring you the best in structural strength when handling the largest logs. In mountainous terrain, the reduced saw box footprint can keep stump size short when you’re working on steep slopes.

Built to last, this attachment comes equipped with a DGlide bushing material and a Taper lock collar to minimize wear and extend the life of your product. After all, Bob Danielson chooses to exclusively use Quadco Group products for a reason—they get the job done again and again.

Felling Heads

Southstar’s Bar Saws perform in the toughest environments, ensuring that your largest stems are taken care of with the heavy duty directional felling head and optimal operating size of 5 – 55” in diameter.

Featuring a wide chassis structure for increased structural strength and capacity, the Southstar Bar Saws are ideal for heavy timber. Angled tip grips keep grip strong when shoveling or picking up from a stack.

GRAPPLE PROCESSOR HEADS

Our Grapple Processor Heads are multifunctional powerhouses, allowing you to combine your loading and processing into one durable, efficient machine.

Sort, shovel and load like a grapple and process; measure and cut like a multi-stem processor. Powerful twin rotating motors make precision control of logs on uneven terrain easy. Plenty of innovative features keep uptime high.

Harvesting Processor Heads QS505 QS605 QS635
Cutting Capacity 34″ 38″ 40″

Bar Saw Models

Ideal for harvesting, processing, thinning, debarking, and more, the Quadco Quadstar Harvesting Processor heads feature a 4×4 engine for maximum traction, torque, and delimbing force.

Our wide range of options are ready to meet your environmental and job site needs. All heads feature a Dasa5 standard control system. Plenty of innovative features, such as touch-less encoders and side stepping drive, make our Harvesting Processor Heads the right choice.

Harvesting Processor Heads QS450 QS500 QS600 QS630
Cutting Capacity 32" 34" 38" 40"

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