JAKE build the gear that turns a standard tractor into a forestry machine — mounting frames to carry a loader crane, guarding to protect it, boom supports for transport and legs that steady it under load.

The guarding is certified to ISO 8084 and specified for New Zealand forestry work, with 40mm plate where it matters. Every component is engineered and stress tested rather than fabricated to fit, which is why a JAKE system goes on in two to three days instead of the one to six months a custom build takes. It comes off in five to ten minutes when you want the tractor back.

Fit a crane on a JAKE-mounted tractor and it will do the work of a digger on most chipping and land-clearing jobs — one machine and one operator instead of two. It's the same gear used on production forestry sites in Finland, so a shelterbelt trimmer or a mower mount is well inside what it's built for, and the guarding earns its place on any tractor working in scrub or standing timber, where branches and debris do the damage.

JAKE Finland Oy has been engineering forestry mounting and guarding since the 1950s. ALFA supplies, fits and supports JAKE systems and PALMS crane packages nationwide, with parts held in New Zealand — including installations completed with JJ Ltd in Dunedin for crane-fed chipping.