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
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...
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 ...
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Built for thinnings
The first thing we notice about Conan Hemsworth’s Weiler H457 harvester is the staunch, oversized, heavy-duty undercarriage with a discreet zero tail cab and...
Connecting with landowners
Gisborne District Council was on the ground last month at Porangahau Station in Te Karaka, sharing practical insights and supporting landowners at Beef + Lam...
First reading of farm-to-forest ban
The first reading of the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Scheme—Forestry Conversions) Amendment Bill received strong support in Parliament late la...
Funding for continued NASA water and wildfire research
Scion programmes aimed at Increasing water flow in New Zealand, as well as wildfire knowledge and preparedness, have received a second round of government fu...
Increase in urban tree planting for Selwyn
Selwyn is considering a policy of “replacing one tree with at least two” after Rolleston was shown to have one of the lowest numbers of trees for a town in t...
Kiwis to compete in Technician of the Year awards
The fifth annual John Deere Technician of the Year Awards honour the essential work technicians do every day to support industries critical to New Zealand’s ...
NZ taskforce to tackle Canadian wildfires
A 43-person Fire and Emergency New Zealand taskforce adds to the existing assistance in Canada this week for the Manitoba province’s wildfire response.A seve...
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