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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...

Today we are in the Catlins with Mark Farrell from Farrell Logging to Iron Test his new Komatsu 895HD Comfort Ride forwarder.Eastern Southland looks like one of the luckiest parts of the country to be a logger. Smooth rolling hills, nice tall and straight tree stems and bright green grassy paddoc...