Shaws Iron Test; Built to last
The sparrows weren’t even thinking about their first fart when Iron Tester, Tony Hill, set off from his Tolaga Bay home base somewhere around 1AM, heading for work in the back of remote Ruatoria on the East Cape.
Around 10am he left his regular job tethered harvesting and set off on a three-and-a-half hour drive to meet us at this Iron Test in the mighty Mangatu Forest.
As for me, after traversing the frost-heaved roads of central Alaska on a recent work trip, I thought I had seen the worst roads in t...
NZ Logger Feature Sections March 2025
Forest Engineering; The case for two-stage trucking
Ten percent of all logging operations in New Zealand now involve some form of two staging. This has prompted Forest Growers Research (FGR) and the University of Canter...
Small-scale selective harvesting in action
In 2022, and then again in 2024, the Northland Tōtara Working Group (NTWG) harvested small volumes of tōtara from the same Pāmu (Landcorp Farming) property in Northlan...
Forest Talk
A monster of a machine
Rounding a corner in the sand dunes to see a new 350 horsepower Timberpro forwarder certainly makes an 11 hour drive to the Far North worthwhile, says Iron T...
Boosting inclusion of disabled workers
The launch of a new government multimedia platform is set to help New Zealand businesses address chronic workforce shortages by enabling greater participatio...
Branching into softwood harvesting
The delivery of the latest Komatsu 951XC harvester to Rodwell Logging of Bomballa New South Wales (NSW), last June marked the 40th anniversary of purpose-bui...
Final cyclone recovery work underway
With nearly 600,000 cubic metres of large woody debris removed from river catchments and beaches across the Gisborne region since Cyclone Gabrielle, signific...
Forestry still under pressure as Taranaki sees the light
Economic conditions have been challenging in Taranaki, and not just for forestry, but the downturn may be starting to ease for some.This according to Te Puna...
NZ sites chosen for global forest research
New Zealand sites will be used as part of an upcoming European Space Agency (ESA) mission to better understand the role forests play in the carbon and water ...
Positive signal for wood processing growth
“The prospectus for wood processing being selected as one of the three focus areas for InvestNZ is demonstrating to the world’s investors, we are open for bu...
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