Operations system for forestry contractors
Forest Fleet gives the contractor a complete, real-time view of the economics of every job. Machine data is collected automatically, whatever the brand, and shows where the costs are, which jobs are struggling and where there is money to save — early enough to act on it. Time logging, HSE/QA and invoicing data live in the same system — you choose which parts to use.
Where you start
Each machine sends production figures to its manufacturer's own portal. Timesheets live in text messages. The HSE binder is in the truck. The invoicing basis you work out in your head on Sunday evening. Forest Fleet brings it together.
Feature areas
You don't have to start with everything at once. Most start with machine data and production, then add HSE and invoicing over time.
Data is collected automatically from the machines and combined across brands. You see what each machine actually produces — per hour, per shift, per site.
Staff record hours against forest owner and site while in the field. The data is already sorted when it's time to invoice.
Complete internal control that follows you through the year, with reminders of what needs doing to stay current.
Revenue from the price lists is set against hours and production, so you see what each job and team actually keeps — and the invoicing data is ready for your accounts.
The machine data is yours, in one place, in a format you own. It is also the basis for letting a model suggest better operations as the history grows.
What it looks like
The office sees the whole fleet on one screen. The operator sees their own day on the phone. Both come from the same machine files.
The screenshots show demo data. In a real installation the numbers come from your machines.
One system
Most contractors pay for four or five systems that don't talk to each other, and type the same numbers in two or three times. This is what goes away.
The manufacturer's machine portal
One production overview for the whole fleet, any brand
Spreadsheet for operating cost
Price lists are loaded — cost is calculated while the job runs
Time logging by text message and paper
Hours logged against owner and site from the phone
HSE binder and separate quality system
Incidents, safety analyses, chemical register and machine inspections in one system
Manual invoicing data
Volume, hours and prices sorted per job and period
Five subscriptions, five logins and double entry become one system — and the numbers agree because they come from the same place.
Who's behind it
Forest Fleet is built to simplify the forestry contractor's administrative day. Fewer systems, less double entry — and the numbers in one place when you need them.
Tom Bagaas-Johansen
Former forestry contractor
From machine to invoice
We set up your fleet in the system, whatever brands you run and however old they are. Your price lists go in at the same time.
Production, fuel use and position are collected automatically while the machines run. Staff log hours against owner and site from their phone.
Operating cost, forest owner report, HSE documentation and invoicing data are ready — without you doing any sums.
In the field
What happens in the forest is recorded where it happens — and anyone wondering about progress can see it themselves, without calling.
The operator's own page on the phone. Everything to be recorded during the day is done where the operator stands — in under a minute.
The operator sees only their own team's jobs — never pay, prices or other people's numbers.
You — or the operator, straight from the machine — send the forest owner a link by text. They open it in the browser, no app, no login.
Fewer "how far along are you?" calls — and a forest owner who recommends you.
The operator has the job map on the phone and on the machine PC: the machine track, own position and everything the team has recorded — and chooses which of the team's jobs the map shows.
One record, one name, whoever entered it.
Machine market
IQLog AS brokers used harvesters and forwarders from Norwegian contractors. We sell to everyone, with a particular focus on buyers abroad — and we handle transport, export, import and the phytosanitary certificate from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority for harvesters, so the deal is safe for both sides.
Who it's for
Contractor
See what each machine earns and costs, set the right operating price before the job starts, and have the paperwork in order when someone asks.
Client
Get the production report automatically, with volume, assortments and progress on the site — without having to ask.
Operator
Hours, safety analyses and incidents logged from the phone in under a minute. Wildfire alerts and consultation forms come to wherever you are.
Roadmap
Everything below is built on data the system already collects — with no extra entry and no new gadgets in the machine. What is marked done is in use today.
Diesel consumption is already in the machine data. The system converts it to litres and kilos of CO₂ per cubic metre — per job, per machine, per year.
Warning before the service interval runs out, based on the machine's actual operating hours — not the calendar. The operator reports service needs with machine and urgency straight from the field app.
Soil moisture maps, recent rainfall and frost combine into one simple indicator per job: can the ground take traffic now, or should the job wait?
Soil moisture, contour lines, environmental records and bearing capacity are layered — and the system suggests where the main extraction road should go, before the machines move in.
Environmental measures, buffer zones, rutting checks and climate figures are gathered throughout the job — and become a finished report per job, ready for PEFC audit.
Productivity per machine type and operator group, anonymised, so you can see where there is something to gain.
None of this asks anything new of you or the operators. It's the same machine data, put to work once more.
Questions
Yes. Forest Fleet reads the StanForD 2010 files your machines already produce, and today handles Ponsse, John Deere, Komatsu, Rottne and Eco Log in the same overview. If you run something else, send us a file from the machine — we'll see right away whether it can be read.
You do. The data from your machines is yours, kept in one place, and you can export it again.
Yes. Incident handling, safety data sheets, job safety analyses and periodic machine inspections are in the system, and you get reminders of which tasks are due under the Norwegian internal control regulation.
No. You invoice in the accounting software you already have. Forest Fleet produces the basis: volume, hours and prices per job and period, ready to enter or export.
Not much. Production data arrives by itself. What the operator does actively is log hours against owner and site, and occasionally report an incident or fill in a safety analysis — all from the phone.
Get in touch for a quote or more information tailored to your fleet.
Get in touch
Tell us how many machines you have and which brands, and we'll say plainly what the system can pull from them and what it will cost. No hour-long presentation if five minutes will do.