NZ Logger Magazine | April 2025
April 2025 Iron Test

Shaw Iron Test; In full swing

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

When Dan Mouatt first got into logging it was just supposed to be for a few weeks on his brother’s crew. He was given a pair of Canadian climbing spikes and sent up a bunch of old crop pines to rope them up so they could be pulled back. 

“I struggled to walk for a few days after that,” he says with a smile.  

That sort of all-in attitude has taken him far as he now runs two crews and his brother works for him. 

“Revenge is sweet,” he jokes but it is clear he holds his brother in hi...

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