NZ Logger Magazine | March 2024
March 2024 Shaws Iron Test

Shaw Iron Test; Storm Salvage Operation with a difference

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

Dragging logs out of rivers is a big enough salvage operation as it is but when the Iron Test team arrived at Whitikau Forest in East Cape there was also a storm-damaged Washington 188 swing yarder and a landslide-damaged 10-wheel forwarder for Forestry Solutions Group (FSG) to rescue from the ravages of various storms over the last year with their Komatsu D65P bulldozer.

To give you an idea of where we are at in Whitikau, if you draw a line between Opotiki and Gisborne we are about the middle of that line –...

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March 2024 Tall Timber

Tall Timber; Boom and Bust

After 23 years building a logging contracting business in his own name, Robert Stubbs is out. He fought for a more stable business environment but wound up paying a de...

March 2024 Women in Forestry

Women in Forestry; “Too many going it alone”

How did you come to be involved with FICA?  I was appointed as FICA CEO in April 2018 having been CEO for the Eastland Wood Council for three-and-a-half years in ...

Forest Talk

 
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    In full swing

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  • Overseas investment reforms

    Overseas investment reforms

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  • Strong port profits despite cyclone influence

    Strong port profits despite cyclone influence

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