50-Tonne Titan
The mountain men of logging is what first crossed my mind when we arrived at NAB Contracting’s steep and bluff-riddled Manawatu block – we needed four-wheel drive just to get to their container – but then I saw that the gun loader operator was a woman named Caitlyn Thomsen. Perhaps Mountain Wo/Men of logging?
“Best loader op I have ever had actually,” says NAB Contracting owner, Nick Bunn. “She doesn’t seem to crack under pressure like some of the previous ops and is very smooth on the machine and trucks, and calm. She sta...
NZ Logger Feature Sections September 2022
Maximising the benefits of mechanisation
The New Zealand forestry industry has seen a huge shift from manual to mechanised harvesting in the past few years, greatly reducing risks to manual fallers and breake...
75 years of Scion
In April 1947, the State Forest Service established a Forest Experiment Station known as the Forest Research Institute beside the existing nursery at Whakarewarewa For...
Forest Talk
From movies to microbiology
Darryl Heron’s journey into science started at the movies. As a teenager growing up in South Africa, he was captivated by the 1995 film Outbreak, which...
Gas transition loan scheme a positive step forward
The Wood Processors and Manufacturers Association of New Zealand (WPMA) has welcomed a new pathway to help large industrial gas users transition away from na...
Health and Safety group is awards finalist
The NZ Forestry High-Potential Incidents (HiPo) Group is a finalist in the ‘collaboration’ category of the Safeguard New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety ...
In need of a yarder – and fast
Twice in the last 12 months Tony Hill has needed machinery in a hurry. Both times it was TDF Solutions he called. There was a reason why he made the fi...
Message for forestry in safety alert
A recent safety alert on changing tractor tyres is equally relevant to the forestry industry says WorkSafe.Feedback from the alert indicates it can also appl...
Mulcher put through its paces
Tigercat machinery at Speirs Logging is the subject of the July Iron Test. The Tigercat 4161-15 mulching head is running on a Tigercat L870D, a 370HP 3...
Plan to relieve pressure on forest park
A plan has been put in place to cut damaging deer numbers in a Manawatū forest park.The newly finalised Ruahine Adaptive Wild Deer Management Plan sets out a...
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