NZ Logger Magazine | August 2023
August 2023 Shaws Wire Ropes Iron Test

Shaws Wire Ropes Tackling tough terrain

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

The terrain that Sharples Logging encounters in Canterbury is particularly challenging, with volcanic rock so hard that it snaps grousers off and will send a machine skating if you go over it in the same place more than once without a tether. 

With many Canterbury forests sharing a boundary with farms there are also many more fences and edge trees to contend with than in larger plantations. 

It was with this in mind that Dave Sharples and his wife Jill eyed up John Deere’s new 959ML with fa...

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