NZ Logger Magazine | May 2025
May 2025 Shaws Iron Test

Shaws Iron Test; Smooth Operating

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

It’s amazing the people you meet in this job. I arrive too early at the log port operation in Picton so I go to the tourist lookout area above the yard to see if there are any good photo opportunities. 

Sure enough the view there is an impressive display of a large-scale, well-ordered logging industry workplace. It’s only a few minutes before several tourists drive up and are wowed by the spectacular scenery of the C3 log marshalling site below us. One of the tourists, a Texan, comes over and asks me if...

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May 2025 Log Haulage

Log Haulage; Self-loading logging trailer: Safe-T first

Swinging trailers through the air on the end of a chain might be a staple operation in forestry but it comes loaded with risk. Enter the Safe-T-Loader. Ian Parkes inve...

May 2025 Young Achievers

Young Achievers; Forest managers in the making

Ten Gisborne students this year became the first graduates of the Tūranga Ararau nationally recognised Whakatiputanga Ngahere New Zealand Diploma in Forest Management ...

Forest Talk

 
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    Farewell to a forestry stalwart

    Jim Childerstone, long-time columnist for NZ Logger, recently passed away. Along with forestry and writing, he was a man of many talents – fencer, shearer, s...

  • Gene editing research to benefit NZ forestry

    Gene editing research to benefit NZ forestry

    As part of research aimed at improving wood quality and producing materials to support New Zealand’s bioeconomy, Scion has launched the world’s first field t...

  • “Investment boost” welcomed by wood processors and manufacturers

    “Investment boost” welcomed by wood processors and manufacturers

    A new tax incentive, “Investment Boost”, that allows businesses to immediately deduct 20% of the costs of new assets (or second-hand assets purchased from ov...

  • Janus electric now trading on the ASX

    Janus electric now trading on the ASX

    Janus Electric Holdings, the pioneering Australian manufacturer of electric truck conversion systems and swappable battery infrastructure, commenced trading ...

  • Largest Australian forestry land acquisition in a decade

    Largest Australian forestry land acquisition in a decade

    In a landmark acquisition, forestry and sawmill business, OneFortyOne, has taken ownership of the former New Forests-managed Limestone Coast plantation fores...

  • Massive port access fee increase “a cash grab”

    Massive port access fee increase “a cash grab”

    In an unpleasant surprise for the freight industry, Auckland Council-owned Port of Auckland has announced that Port access charges for road transport operato...

  • Solid and reliable

    Solid and reliable

    When our Iron Test team arrives at A&R Logging’s Patutahi swing yarder operation, the recently upgraded i.Log Madill 124 is pulling logs downhill. The team i...

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