Tackling the tough stuff
“You watch,” says Iron Tester Shaun Field. “Gareth will probably come around the corner in a big black Dodge Ram.”
The RT crackles as we sit and wait as instructed on the side of Parapara road in central Kaingaroa Forest and then, sure enough, a huge black Ram appears.
We follow Gareth, owner of G. White Logging, further up the road and turn off into the standing trees. It seems like quite flat ground here. Not really hauler country. Typical deceptive Kaingaroa ground, as we are only about 3...
NZ Logger Feature Sections November 22
Back to the future of thinning
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Hybrid harvesting Highlights
The paintwork on New Zealand’s first diesel-electric harvester is still shiny after nearly a year of hard work from this machine that’s been in the country since Decem...
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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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