NZ Logger Magazine | November 2024
Nov 2024 Shaws Iron Test

Shaws Iron Test; Superskid Processing

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

Kajavala Forestry (KFL) has come a long way in the industry in the last 50 years. Back in 1970, Tapio Kajavala was a tree planter in Murupara who shot deer on the weekends to sell. His wife was a night shift nurse and together they saved up the deposit for a new Clark 664 log skidder. From there they progressed to full-sized log skidders, haulers and dozers with arches, and were the first crew to harvest in Tarawera Forest.

Many will have followed son, Jacob Kajavala’s story as he changed the business model ...

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Nov 2024 Looking Back

Timber cruising in the King Country

Ross Lockyer recounts more of his life and adventures in the forestry and logging industries in New Zealand and the jungles of South-East Asia and the Pacific, this ti...

November 2024 Biomass

Biomass: Fuel substitutes: Forestry has the key

This country’s leadership tells us burning natural gas emits less greenhouse gases than other fossil fuels!Going by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s quotes to the me...

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