NZ Logger Magazine | June 2024
June 2024 Shaws Iron Test

Shaws Iron Test; One quick slash grapple

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

You know things are going to get interesting when you are still 20 kilometres from the skid north of Gisborne and the road, halfway up the range, surrounded by grass paddocks for miles, suddenly looks like a hillbilly’s driveway due to cyclone damage. Out the gate steep and narrow and it’s got a twist in it. Surely log trucks or even regular trucks would fall off the side of this trail? Maps app says it’s a public road.

We have just driven past big warning signs announcing major risks ahead. I guess this is...

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June 2024 Looking Back

Looking Back; A day in the sawmill

In this pictorial, Ron Cooke, a former Taumarunui engineer and now a sprightly 84-year-old historian happily researching and publishing local King Country events from ...

June 2024 Biomass

Biomass: Revolutionary plans for NZ’s forestry resources

Volumes of harvested trees on skid sites and landings may soon be manufactured by specialised plants locally. Every scrap of timber will be processed into a variety of...

Forest Talk

 
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  • Progress on rural road repair programme

    Progress on rural road repair programme

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  • Self-loading logging trailer: Safe-T first

    Self-loading logging trailer: Safe-T first

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  • Smooth operating

    Smooth operating

    It’s amazing the people you meet in this job, says Iron Test writer, Tim Benseman. Arriving too early at the log port operation in Picton, he goes to the tou...

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