
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...
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