2025 Caterpillar Forest Machines FM548 GF

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2025 Caterpillar Forest Machines FM548 GF

Make Logging Simple, Secure and Satisfying

The Cat® FM548 is simply the best choice in its size class for doing roadbuilding, processing, and log-loading work. With 275 HP and significant hydraulic flow and swing torque increases, the superior performance and exceptional operator comfort and safety of the FM548 will help you produce day in and day out.

Features may include:
  • At the touch of fingertips and navigating user-friendly icons, the latest operator oriented User Interface (UI) maximizes uptime and gets crews to work without delay. From re-ordering work tool lists to creating new work tool combinations as needed, operators can quickly set up machines and easily access information.?????
  • Smart mode helps reduce fuel consumption by automatically matching engine and hydraulic power to working conditions.
  • Heavy lift mode with up to 30% greater swing torque* helps you confidently move big logs.
  • Auxiliary hydraulic options let you use Cat grapples and various other attachments.
  • The engine’s regeneration system functions automatically with no operator input or interruption to work.

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Highlights

  • Exeter, Rhode Island
  • 2025
  • Caterpillar
  • Forest Machines FM548 GF
  • Model: Cat C7.1
  • Available
  • Shipping - Tilted Cab: 11.5 ft | Handrail: 11.5 ft | Machine - without Front, with Counterweight: 28.3 ft | Machine - without Front and Counterweight: 6.8 ft | Maximum Pin at Stick Nose: 66.8 ft | Maximum Working Pin at Stick Nose - 1/2: 57.6 ft | Maximum at Stick Nose in Max Reach Position: 38.6 ft | Staright Maximum Pin at Stick Nose: 36 ft | Straight Maximum at Stick Nose in Max Reach Position: 6.7 ft | Straight Maximum/Minimum Loading: 30.6 ft/12.7 ft | Bent Maximum Cutting: 32.8 ft | Bent Maximum/Minimum Loading: 23 ft/8.5 ft

Specifications

  • 2025
  • Caterpillar
  • Forest Machines
  • FM548 GF
  • Medium
  • Model: Cat C7.1
  • Net - ISO 9249: 271 hp | ISO 14396: 275 hp | Net - ISO 9249 (DIN): 275 hp (metric) | ISO 14396 (DIN): 279 hp (metric)
  • 4.13 in
  • 5.31 in
  • 433.3 in³
  • Meets U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final, EU Stage V emission standards.
  • Maximum Travel Speed: 3 mile/h | Maximum Drawbar Pull: 66319 lbf
  • Swing: 8.1 r/min | Maximum Swing Torque: 100308 lbf·ft
  • Main System - Maximum: 132.6 gal/min
  • Equipment: 5076 psi | Equipment - Lift Mode: 5511 psi | Travel: 5076 psi | Swing: 4061 psi
  • Tail Swing Radius: 11.6 ft | Counterweight Clearance: 4.9 ft | Max Reach at Stick Nose at Ground Level - General Forestry Road Builder: 29.5 ft | Max Reach at Grapple Mount on Heel at Ground Level - Log Loader Under/Under: 34.4 ft
  • Shipping - Tilted Cab: 11.5 ft | Handrail: 11.5 ft | Machine - without Front, with Counterweight: 28.3 ft | Machine - without Front and Counterweight: 6.8 ft | Maximum Pin at Stick Nose: 66.8 ft | Maximum Working Pin at Stick Nose - 1/2: 57.6 ft | Maximum at Stick Nose in Max Reach Position: 38.6 ft | Staright Maximum Pin at Stick Nose: 36 ft | Straight Maximum at Stick Nose in Max Reach Position: 6.7 ft | Straight Maximum/Minimum Loading: 30.6 ft/12.7 ft | Bent Maximum Cutting: 32.8 ft | Bent Maximum/Minimum Loading: 23 ft/8.5 ft
  • General Forestry - Boom Stretched Out: 41.3 ft | Log Loader - Boom Stretched Out: 49.6 ft | Track: 16.6 ft | Track to Center of Rollers: 13.2 ft
  • 2.5 ft
  • Track: 9.2 ft
  • Transport Width: 11.6 ft
  • 262 gal (US)
  • 10 gal (US)
  • Engine: 7 gal (US)
  • Air Conditioning: The air conditioning system on this machine contains the fluorinated greenhouse gas refrigerant R134a (Global Warming Potential = 1430). The system contains 2.1 (22" Riser CAB)/2.2 (48"/72" Riser CAB) kg of refrigerant, which has a CO2 equivalent of 3.003/3.146 metric tonnes.
  • System - Including Tank: 92 gal (US) | Tank: 49 gal (US) | DEF Tank: 11 gal (US)
  • General Forestry: 83300 lb | Log Loader (U/U): 89290 lb