Rottne Tractor en orden cronológico

In 1968 Rottne introduced its first forwarder - the Blondin, meaning the Blonde. During a mountain holiday in 1976 Börje Karlsson (the company's founder) had the idea of what was to become Rottne's first one-man-operated processor (the forerunner of today's harvester). The processor was mounted onto the Blondin forwarder and quickly became popular as it was also suitable for thinning. It was further developed and in 1981 Rottne presented its first harvester. In 1985 the Blondin forwarder was superseded by the new Rapid series. The Rapid meant that the machines were built on components, instead of as previously, on a tractor body.

Blondin is the Rottne model that has lived the longest. More than 20 years after its introduction, 1988, the last customer took delivery of its Blondin. All in all some 2100 Blondin machines were manufactured, of which about 400 were processors/harvesters.