NZ Logger Magazine | September 2024
September 2024 Shaws Iron Test

Shaws Iron Test: A long reaching Beast

     Story & photos: Tim Benseman

It seems like quite a while ago that we tested a Cat machine so we are all ears when Terra Cat territory account manager, Mark Costello, tells us what they’ve changed in this new Next Gen 568. 

“We basically redesigned everything. New engine, new pump, new control system, all hoses are out of the cab now, new rear-entry cab, new windscreen design which you will see is amazing, more track power, dual slew motors… the list goes on.”

Arriving at McCormick Logging’s operation is like driving into the C...

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September 2024 Breaking Out

A race against time

On a misty morning in June, Flight Logging’s Gordon Flight brought down the last tree in the Central North Island forests managed by NZ Forest Managers (NZFM) that ha...

September 2024 Looking Back

Looking Back: Cant hooks, pinch bars and snig chains...

To borrow from the popular World War One ditty, ‘Where have all the young men gone?’: “Oh where have all the sawmills gone? Either left derelict, or gone to scrapyards...

Forest Talk

 
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    Progress on rural road repair programme

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    Self-loading logging trailer: Safe-T first

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  • Smooth operating

    Smooth operating

    It’s amazing the people you meet in this job, says Iron Test writer, Tim Benseman. Arriving too early at the log port operation in Picton, he goes to the tou...

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