NZ Logger Magazine | April 2024
April 2024 Shaws Iron Test

Shaws Iron Test; Everything you need... nothing you don’t

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

It was a pleasant surprise to hear that Russell Jensen himself was going to host us for this John Deere 803MH harvester Iron Test at Hamurana just north of Lake Rotorua. It turns out this is Russell’s ‘Pet Crew’ operating in a forest managed by Todd Cheeseman from Waipa Forest Management.

Russell does the earthworks on a JD700 dozer most of the time in here, pushing in tracks and skids for loading out the thinned logs. Most of these are going to Kawerau pulp mill and there is a small amount of K grade going ...

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April 2024 Tall Timber Part 2

Tall Timber Part 2; A wild ride

Robert Stubbs stood down as Chairman of the Forest Industry Contractors Association just six months into his tenure, after his business collapsed. The industry’s boom ...

April 2024 Forest Engineering

Forest Engineering; Addressing fatigue connection failures

With the increasing use of tethered machines to replace fallers on slopes, on occasion well beyond the original limits of ‘traction assist’, there is high wear and fa...

Forest Talk

 
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