Breaking Out

Quebec-based logging contractor, Steeve Ladrie explains that his equipment approach is about meeting the needs of his teams: his selection of harvesting equipment is based on having a diverse set of machines assigned to his two separate teams, so that each team can efficiently – and productively ...

An Otago-based logging contractor is using innovative harvesting techniques that offer both efficiency and environmental stewardship in a challenging area that would otherwise have been uneconomic to harvest.Gillion Logging, owned and operated by second-generation bushman, Matt Winmill, has been ...

On a misty morning in June, Flight Logging’s Gordon Flight brought down the last tree in the Central North Island forests managed by NZ Forest Managers (NZFM) that had been damaged in February 2023 by Cyclone Gabrielle.When Gordon set down the tree ready for extraction, it marked the end of an e...