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
Carbon capture pilot launched at Finnish mill
In a first of its kind trial, Metsä Group, a leading Finnish forest industry group whose operations span pulp, paperboard, tissue, and wood products, has sta...
Custom Controls improve Forestry Safety
Is the standard, off-the-shelf control system in your forestry machinery a weak link in your safety chain? In an industry where operators navigate treacherou...
Eco Survey and a Possum
Along with a New Zealand Timber feature this month, we take a trip back in time with Ross Lockyer to his Ecological Survey days as a Forest Ranger back in 19...
First of its kind Tōtara height-diameter model
In research published earlier this year, the Bioeconomy Science Institute released the first height-diameter model for tōtara (Podocarpus totara). To date th...
Search for Most Valuable Coach begins
Entries are now open for the Competenz Most Valuable Coach (MVC) award - a new nationwide search to honour the mentors, trainers, and workplace leg...
Solid build, light work
When it comes to bunching grapples, big is good and tough is even better. The new Duxson BX1100 is both. It’s hooked up to a John Deere 2156G XD LC at Nathan...
Tarata Road upgrade underway
New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) has kicked-off a multi-million-dollar project to upgrade a key rural road.When it is finished, about five kilometres of ...
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