A pocket rocket
You know it’s going to be an interesting day when you have to drive around eight goats sleeping on the state highway in the dark on the way to work. The older ones scampered out of the way but some of the younger ones were still rubbing sleep out of their eyes as we went past and began accelerating again.
A few hours later it was turning into a nice sunny day as we approached the Gaddum Construction forestry roading site just out of Kawhia near the Oparau Store.
The loggers around here have had qu...
NZ Logger Feature Sections May 2023
Special Feature: The Science of Slash
Forestry, a significant New Zealand land-based industry, has become a media whipping boy in recent times.Headlines scream: “Pastoral land covered in exotic pine ...
Looking Back: Log shoot of note at Kakahi
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica} Photographic examples of genuine log shoots in New Zealand are difficult to locate but historian Ron C...
Forest Talk
Carbon capture pilot launched at Finnish mill
In a first of its kind trial, Metsä Group, a leading Finnish forest industry group whose operations span pulp, paperboard, tissue, and wood products, has sta...
Custom Controls improve Forestry Safety
Is the standard, off-the-shelf control system in your forestry machinery a weak link in your safety chain? In an industry where operators navigate treacherou...
Eco Survey and a Possum
Along with a New Zealand Timber feature this month, we take a trip back in time with Ross Lockyer to his Ecological Survey days as a Forest Ranger back in 19...
First of its kind Tōtara height-diameter model
In research published earlier this year, the Bioeconomy Science Institute released the first height-diameter model for tōtara (Podocarpus totara). To date th...
Search for Most Valuable Coach begins
Entries are now open for the Competenz Most Valuable Coach (MVC) award - a new nationwide search to honour the mentors, trainers, and workplace leg...
Solid build, light work
When it comes to bunching grapples, big is good and tough is even better. The new Duxson BX1100 is both. It’s hooked up to a John Deere 2156G XD LC at Nathan...
Tarata Road upgrade underway
New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) has kicked-off a multi-million-dollar project to upgrade a key rural road.When it is finished, about five kilometres of ...
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