The present invention is based on a machine, in particular to a harvesting of short rotation trees (10), with a guide is a plant unit (12), which leads to a deflection of the short rotation family (10) before a cutting zone (14) of a saw unit (16) is provided.It is proposed that the guide is a plant unit (12) at least one deflecting means (18), the to a deflection and biasing of the short rotation family (10) in front of the cutting zone (14) of the saw unit (16) in a transverse direction (20) is provided.