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...

Forest Talk

 
  • Farewell to a forestry stalwart

    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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