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Originally Posted by Icelander
I was actually thinking about the value of these things in clearing the thick forests of Germania Hyperborea for farming.
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They'll certainly be useful for that. A traction engine or a simple portable steam engine, though those need something else pulling them when they're moved - I'd go with a proper traction engine so it can be used to pull stuff when you move your logging base. You'd have a portable saw mill, and probably rig cables to pull in large logs, tear out stumps, & etc., as well. You'd still need horses or oxen for supplemental towing, and to drag out trees from areas out of reach of a traction engine.
I expect you'd have companies that specialised in felling and clearing land who would own all this and would move around to wherever land was being cleared, or they'd work for some Junker who'd discovered this neat way of making money from plant and labourers that they didn't currently need on their own estates.