Shaws Iron Test; Smooth Operating
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...
NZ Logger Feature Sections May 2025
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Self-loading logging trailer: Safe-T first
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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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