Shaws Wire Ropes Iron Test

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 Southland, testing the CDL log grapple made by 3D Industrial Engineering in Rotorua. It’s a tough test, the macrocarpa logs are big, old and heavy, but the grapple shines through as a solid bit of New Zealand-made kit. The 3D Industrial Engineering story is a classic one of starti...