NZ Logger Magazine | December 2023
December 2023 Shaws Iron Test

Shaws Iron Test: Smooth land prep operation

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

This Sumitomo is a great land prep machine. Smooth and stable. One of the key differences between a logging operator and forestry land prep op is that the latter is reaching out fully almost every time they perform a manoeuvre, so smoothness and stability at full reach is number one.

This machine has the heavy-duty boom for forestry and the high lift which is good for getting the boom and stick up closer to the cab when sidling through narrow road cuttings, raking up debris, squeezing between log stacks and...

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