Forest Talk

OneFortyOne's Jubilee Sawmill’s second Continuous Drying Kiln (CDK) is now online, completing a $16 million capital investment project at the site in Mount Gambier.

Jubilee Sawmill General Manager, Paul Hartung, says the kilns are working well and have increased site capacity while improving the quality of the timber dried.

“The CDK’s are powered by our own sawdust and wood waste offcuts, and their efficient design is using less energy to process more timber..... more

A new type of forest machine is currently driving around the forests of Sweden. It combines a low-impact approach, increased productivity and an improved operator environment and is the result of a major cooperative project that has been under way since 2019. The concept machine is called Centipede and it has been developed by eight Swedish forestry companies and a forest machinery manufacturer. It is currently being test driven and the results are promising.

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Working in harvesting crews on the East Coast for over 32 years, doing predominantly tall tower difficult terrain logging, Tairawhiti Timber Training’s Alan Paulson would often come across edge trees that were difficult to fall.

“I saw a need for purpose-built tree jacks as a jack is a very safe way of falling difficult trees, requires minimal effort compared to pounding on wedges with a big hammer, and saves cost, especially for a ..... more

More than 200 transport operators have already registered for the Trucking Industry Summit in Christchurch on Saturday 30 July, jointly organised by National Road Carriers (NRC) and the NZ Trucking Association (NTA). 

NTA CEO, Dave Boyce, says the Summit will address the industry’s major challenges including the driver shortage, poor road conditions and the Road User Charges (RUC) review: “I am sure there will be some robust discussions and this Summit is the..... more

Applications are now open for Ngā Karahipi Uru Rākau (Forestry Scholarships) for study in 2023, giving young people a foot in the door to a career into one of New Zealand’s biggest primary sectors.

There are nine scholarships available, to those studying the Bachelor of Forestry Science or the Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Forest Engineering through the University of Canterbury, as well as the Diploma in Forest Management through Toi Ohomai.

“Forestry an..... more

A phrase like “It’s the way we’ve always done it”, stands as an open challenge to stevedoring company, ISO whose track record of innovation shows it to be pretty relentless in finding safer, smarter and faster ways of doing things. 

The company handles around 60% of New Zealand’s export log trade. It loads over 500 log vessels a year, around 11 vessels a week.

In the good old days loading ships was done with a lot of labour. Crated goods were loaded int..... more