Shaws Iron Test: Big engine, Big results
Towering over the south Waikato village of Atiamuri,the mountain that Knight Logging is harvesting is proving a bit tough. The skyline is about a metre off the ground before any chokers are hooked up to logs and there’s a couple of truckloads of stems to be dragged off this spot and around the hill to the landing.
In a classic case of ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going’, Knight Logging owner, Zane Knight, is breaking out by himself today down the hill while his crew are all in machines proc...
NZ Logger Feature Sections October 2023
Breaking Out: An alternative approach to Logging
There are no skidders or tracked feller bunchers within the 20-piece logging fleet owned by Prince George, B.C.-based Freya Logging. The fleet consists primarily of wh...
Health & Safety: Road access innovation
A desire to find a more efficient, safer and reliable way to control road access to forestry sites prompted contractor, Vincent Yeoman, to create an automatic barrier ...
Forest Talk
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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