Shaws Wire Ropes Iron Test

"CHOICE,” EXCLAIMS IRON TESTER, SHAUN FIELD, AS HE manipulates the Hawkeye grapple carriage to seek a meaty Douglas-fir way out in front of the Harvestline. A bloody good choice, I remark to the Harvestline’s owner, Mike Harris, watching intently to see how the grapple latches onto the target, ...

IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I SAT IN THE operator’s seat of a yoader – that was a loader converted to a yarder in Australia for shotgunning – and I can’t say that I recall it with any fondness. Fiddly to use and hard to control a grapple with a mind of its own. Such a different experience to Mike Har...