NZ Logger Magazine | September 2022
September 2022 Shaws Iron Test

50-Tonne Titan

     Story and photos: Tim Benseman

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...

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September 2022 Special Feature: Winch-assist Harvesting

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...

September 2022 Special Feature 75 years of Scion

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

 
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    Farewell to a forestry stalwart

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    Gene editing research to benefit NZ forestry

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  • “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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