Engulfed in Wood
In our search for the most powerful forwarder ever made by John Deere we have somehow arrived at this eucalyptus clearfell operation near Invercargill where our first impression is that something has gone terribly wrong. Row upon row of processed logs stretch for long distances. These rows have been here so long that they are sun-bleached and foliage has started to regrow around them where they lie in the cutover. I stop and search the gearbox for reverse. I must have made a wrong turn somewhere.
But it turn...
NZ Logger Feature Sections February 2024
Looking Back: Who needs Skidders? Logging teak in Burma
In mid-1984, Ross Lockyer was offered a consultancy with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as Logging Engineering Consultant for the Project Completion Mission pertaini...
Advances in self driving skidder
Able to drive itself between the felling site and skid, the T-Skidder is an autonomous steep slope machine designed to overcome current manned steep slope skidding cha...
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Funding for continued NASA water and wildfire research
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NZ taskforce to tackle Canadian wildfires
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