Shaws Iron Test; All in the family
Today the Iron Test team is visiting the Stewart Logging Mosgiel site with AB Equipment’s Nicolas Ekron who is the Dunedin branch Service Manager. Nicolas can’t speak highly enough of the crew at Stewart Logging. “The owner is Grant Stewart of course and Matt is his son who is our go-to these days. Matt owns the Sumitomo 4040 we are testing today.
“Matt’s brother Dan is running that machine, and Grant’s daughter Alyse up until very recently ran their processor – a Tigercat 890 running a Woodsman Pro 850 – until she was eigh...
NZ Logger Feature Sections September 2025
Looking Back; Living, working and playing in New Zealand’s wild places
The letter detailed that I was to be at Bigg’s Corner on 12 January 1957. I travelled by New Zealand Road Services bus from Greymouth, stopping at Murchison to take on...
How quickly does a site recover from winch assist operations?
Nearly all felling in New Zealand cable logging operations is mechanised and winch-assisted, which is a major change from just 10 years ago when the majority was still...
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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