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It’s amazing the people you meet in this job. I arrive too early at the log port operation in Picton so I go to the tourist lookout area above the yard to see if there are any good photo opportunities. Sure enough the view there is an impressive display of a large-scale, well-ordered loggin...

About 40 minutes south east of Dunedin we turn onto a logging road to see a wide open, high volume, Sumitomo-heavy skid (there’s seven) spread out before us at Ollerenshaw Logging’s site with a couple of trucks on site and another one on its way in. Kelvin Ollerenshaw has come a long way since he...