NZ Logger June 2019

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Twins under the skin

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Two different jobs, two very different Kobelco SK500 excavators

How do we find more log truck drivers?

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4 FOREST TALK New forestry roadmap helps Ministry with strategic plan; Forestry NZ base flagged for Rotorua; WorkSafe clamps down on hauler guarding and worker facilities; top forestry researcher leaves NZ; TransDiesel takes on Dafo fire suppression; XLam to close Nelson plant; bigger T-winch coming.....with NZ in mind; Tapu tops 10th anniversary Eastland awards; export log prices lower, mills happier; forest owners back levy in referendum; hose repair pod makes quality repairs easier; Kawasaki wheel loaders are now Hitachi; Hoo-Hoo Club opens new home in Putaruru; surprises at SNI awards

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SHAW’S WIRE ROPES IRON TEST Two very different versions of the Kobelco SK500s that are working for Forest Road Management in Gisborne have provided a rare opportunity for our Iron Test team to see if the dual personality leads to any compromises.

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SPECIAL FEATURE: NEW BLOOD, PART 3 In the third part of our series on the need to attract new blood into forestry we look at the issues facing log truck operators in trying to attract people to become drivers and the challenges around training them.

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NZ TIMBER A sawmill without any logs sounds like a recipe for disaster, but not for KLC. This mill, situated at the old Forestry Service workshops in Kaingaroa, has forsaken a green mill to concentrate on the timber side, as covered in our quarterly look at the processing side of the industry.

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Beating the logjam June 2019 | $7.20

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Two different jobs, two very different Kobelco SK500 excavators

ISSN 1176-0397

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Twins under the skin

How do we find more log truck drivers?

A sawmill that doesn’t need logs

The two Kobelco SK500 machines working for FRM (Forest Road Maintenance) near Gisborne.

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VER THE PAST TWO ISSUES OF NZ LOGGER MAGAZINE WE’VE been looking at initiatives to attract more people to work in forestry and have felt heartened by those efforts.

This month, we’re turning the spotlight on the log truck driver shortages and, again, the increased emphasis on putting more people behind the wheel is inspiring.

Log trucks are the link that keep our harvesting operations running smoothly. When that lifeline is severed, inventories soon build up in the forest, choking skids and landings, and depriving customers of much sought-after wood.

The shortage of drivers has reached crisis point in some areas, including the East Coast, where one transport operator told us that on one particular day last month they had “in excess of 1,000 loads sitting in the bush and we can’t catch up”.

Exacerbating the situation, the Gisborne port was closed for almost six days as a result of swells caused by a big storm, so transporters weren’t able to move some of the wood as the storage yards filled up fast. That left some log truck drivers idle at a time when they were most wanted.

As log piles built up, it meant harvesting crews had to throttle back production and finish early for a few days while the logjam continued. Ships were forced to wait out at sea, as they couldn’t dock to load up with export logs. This also caused delays at other ports since these ships make more than one call when they visit New Zealand.

It’s a vicious circle and it highlights a number of issues that need to be addressed, not just by the industry itself, but at a government level, too.

We need more resilience built into our infrastructure, so that ships can call at ports even after storms, along with better roads and bridges for our log trucks to more easily negotiate, plus a focus on being more efficient across the whole supply chain.

It’s something that I hope will be addressed in the forest strategy document that the Ministry of Primary Industry’s Te Uru Rakau (Forestry NZ) business unit is currently working on (see page 4).

While on the subject of building the industry’s future, I also need to set the record straight after NZ Logger stated in the last issue that the all-female silvi crew working in the Kaingaroa Forest is the first women-only crew to work in the bush. They are not, as pointed out by numerous people who got in touch.

There was an all-female crew employed in silvi work in Kaingaroa back in the early 1970s, as documented in the excellent book by Joan Boyd entitled ‘Pumic & Pines: The Story of Kaingaroa Forest’ They really did blaze a trail for women back in their day and our apologies for overlooking their contribution.

What I am looking forward to most, is not needing to make an exception of all-women crews in the future, because females will rank alongside males in equal numbers in the forest. It will be the norm. NZL

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New forestry roadmap helps Ministry with strategic plan THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING ON A strategic policy document for the New Zealand forestry industry that will help to shape its long-term future.

A team at the Te Uru Rākau (Forestry NZ) unit of the Ministry for Primary Industries has begun developing the strategy that, in addition to fulfilling the government’s plans, will also incorporate a number of ideas and goals already unveiled by various organisations in the industry over the past year. These include Scion’s ‘Right Tree, Right Place, Right Purpose Strategy to 2030’ published in mid-2018, justreleased ‘Forestry Roadmap 2020-2050’ from the New Zealand Forest Owners Association, as well as strategies from both the Wood Processors & Manufacturers Association and the Forest Industry Contractors Association.

Te Uru Rākau says it is looking to set the direction for the forest sector for the next 30 years, reflecting the longer term and broader aspirations for forestry beyond the One Billion Trees Programme, and establishing a sectorwide course of action for achieving these.

The forest sector is strategically important to NZ and it’s becoming even more important as part of the Government’s response to climate change and focus on regional development.

It says the forest sector can help to achieve a range of social, economic and environmental outcomes to improve New Zealanders’ wellbeing, including: • moving to a low carbon emissions economy • improving environmental and climate change outcomes • supporting economic development in some of our most deprived regions • supporting Māori cultural and economic aspirations for their land • enabling more value-added wood processing • moving away from petroleum-based products to bio products.

The Strategy will help establish a common vision for the future, a road map for getting there, a shared understanding of priority areas for action in the short, medium and long terms, clarity around the roles and responsibilities to deliver the actions, and ways in which everyone in the sector can work better together.

It will canvass issues and opportunities relating to forest management, the contribution that forestry can make to national and regional economies, manufacturing (including innovative and high-tech products), export

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markets, supply chains and infrastructure to support the growth of the sector.

Forestry workforce, labour and skills will also be an important part of the strategy. A working group has been established, comprising key industry and government representatives, to co-design a Forestry Workforce Action Plan to ensure that the forestry sector has the workforce it needs for the future. The aim is to jointly agree a set of actions to ensure we have the workforce we need to maximise the value of the forestry sector.

Strategy development will be a shared activity, bringing together the knowledge and expertise of the organisations, Māori, individuals, and government agencies who make up the sector. Te Uru Rākau will use a combination of hui, workshops, focus groups and face-to-face meetings to help develop the strategy, with the goal of publishing it in mid2020.

Foresters can contribute to the Strategy by contacting Te Uru Rākau at foreststrategy@ mpi.govt.nz.

Meanwhile, David Rhodes, CEO of the NZ Forest Owners Association (NZFOA), says his organisation is pleased Te Uru Rākau has found its own Roadmap useful in the development of their forestry policy document.

The Roadmap put together by the NZFOA effectively updates the ten-year Strategic Plan released by the Wood Council back in 2012, which targeted some lofty goals, including a major expansion of wood processing in New Zealand, leading to a doubling of wood export values by 2022 to more than $12 billion.

While forestry has continued to grow since 2012, the expansion of wood processing within New Zealand has not materialised to any great extent, which has lowered the expectations of a significant increase in wood export values.

Mr Rhodes says that some of the aspirations from the 2012 Strategic Action Plan, particularly with regards to increased wood processing, were over-estimated and the NZFOA has been more circumspect with its visions contained in the new Forestry Roadmap 2020-2050 document.

Crucially, the timescale for the Roadmap coincides with the current government’s plan for New Zealand to achieve a zero-carbon economy by 2050 and dovetail with Shane Jones’ One Billion Trees planting programme.

There are five goals set out in the Roadmap,

building on those from the 2012 Strategic Action Plan: • Tree growth and forest production will have both doubled – the original Strategic Action Plan set a high priority on adding value to logs and the new Roadmap supports this • Our increasingly diverse forests will provide valuable products tailored to our customers’ needs – while concern about recruitment into the industry was evident in 2012, concerns regarding labour supply are much higher today • People will be attracted to work in forestry because they will be safe, valued and well-trained – the Roadmap focuses on an increasing need to maintain the confidence of the public and politicians • Our licence to operate will have widespread support – this goal dovetails both with the ones above and below, as forestry works in unison with communities and administrative authorities to ensure it achieves desirable environmental and social outcomes • Expanding commercial plantation forestry will have been the prime means of achieving New Zealand’s net-zero carbon goal, while providing other substantial environmental and social benefits – fast-growing pines will be the key to sequestering sufficient atmospheric carbon to meet New Zealand zero-carbon goal. NZL

This document put together by the NZ Forest Growers Association is helping to shape the industry’s future.

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Forestry NZ base flagged for Rotorua A NEW BASE FOR TE URU RĀKAU, THE Forestry New Zealand unit of the Ministry for Primary Industries, is to be established in Rotorua and more money will be available to help it complete its work.

The announcement, made last month as part of a suit of measures introduced in the ‘Wellbeing Budget’, will enable further transformation of New Zealand’s forestry sector following the rollout of the government’s One Billion Trees programme, says Forestry Minister, Shane Jones.

“The One Billion Trees ambition is ahead of target. The Wellbeing Budget is delivering $58 million in funding to ensure this remains the case while also catalysing further transformation of such an important sector,” says Mr Jones.

“The funding will allow Te Uru Rākau to increase its regional presence to ensure foresters and landowners have the support they need and will also see the agency focus on the Government’s goal of developing a sustainable, domestic forestry workforce.

“A key part to achieving our vision for the sector will be delivering in the regions and we will see a new premises built in Rotorua – the heart of the forestry sector – showcasing the use of wood in construction and accommodating Te Uru Rākau’s growth.

“By growing the regional presence, we have a huge opportunity to work even more closely with landowners – particularly Māori and farmers – to revitalise our regions and create real benefits across the country.

“Forestry is a great choice which will help landowners to diversify their income, invest in a sustainable future and increase productivity through improved land-use, including tackling erosion.

“Along with this, we will see Te Uru Rākau lead important work to capture and add value to the sector. They have been tasked with strengthening the domestic market for wood products and working closely with the sector to support investment in forestry.

“One of the priorities for the wellbeing budget is to transform the economy. This announcement will help us to do this in a sustainable way.

“With forestry worth over $6 billion to our economy, the Wellbeing Budget gives clear and visible leadership to Te Uru Rākau to build a sustainable sector that delivers improved social, environmental and economic benefits for New Zealand.”

Forest industry leaders welcomed the announcement, with Forest Owners Association President Peter Weir saying: “It is great that the government is building a showcase Te Uru Rākau office in Rotorua made out of timber. We hope that will include cross laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber to demonstrate the amazing qualities of modern engineered wood as a building material in larger scale construction.”

He also says more government involvement in recruitment into the industry, flagged in the budget, is very welcome to deal with critical gaps in silviculture, logging and log

cartage.

“Forest owners are investing heavily in promoting forest education courses, recruitment and training,” says Mr Weir. “But in the short term, there are things which only government can do to help, including working with Pacific Island governments to get the increased planting done over the next two winters. The Minister has announced a laudable aim of a sustainable domestic workforce – but the need is now.

“Without enough labour, the Billion Trees programme will drive up costs for those replanting after harvest, and New Zealand’s very ambitious Zero Carbon 2050 target will not be met.”

A strong domestic processing sector is also critical to complement our very healthy log export markets, adds Mr Weir, lamenting the forthcoming closer of the XLam CLT plant in Nelson.

Meanwhile, Farm Forestry Association President, Neil Cullen, says there has been an urgent need for the government to put more resources into working with hill country farmers, who feel threatened by forestry and need more information on how a wellplanned and managed farm forest planting can be a highly profitable complement to running livestock.

He adds that it is now becoming obvious to everyone that all reports on climate change point to a need for extensive afforestation to meet New Zealand’s international commitments. NZL

WorkSafe clamps down on hauler guarding and worker facilities WORKSAFE HAS FLAGGED TO THE FORESTRY INDUSTRY THAT it is clamping down on what it sees as safety issues with some equipment, including haulers, and also the provision of worker facilities, such as toilets and clean lunch rooms.

Safety inspectors from WorkSafe have been visiting crews throughout the country this year and it says it has become aware of a number of examples of inadequate guarding on machines, in particular haulers, that it has brought to the industry’s attention.

In a memo sent to the Forest Industry Contractors Association (FICA), it says “the issues relate particularly to the serious risks of entrapment and falls from height”.

The memo goes on to state: “We are aware of previous incidents that have resulted in the amputation of limbs and can advise that, while investigating a recent fatality, a potentially life-threatening

entrapment risk was identified.”

WorkSafe says specific issues its inspectors have observed include original fall and entrapment guarding removed and not replaced or modified or damaged, so as to be ineffective.

It goes on to say that it has also observed other risks that could be practically and effectively eliminated or managed, not being done so, including on new or quite new equipment, adding: “This presents an unacceptable risk to workers and others associated with the work.”

CEO of FICA, Prue Younger, has asked contractors for their take on the WorkSafe observations, which will be presented for discussion.

Ms Younger elaborates further on this issue and how these concerns can be properly managed at forestry sites in the FICA column on page 52. NZL

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Top forestry researcher leaves NZ RESPECTED FORESTRY RESEARCH, DR HUNTER HARRILL, WHO HAS BEEN at the University of Canterbury School of Forestry for just over 8 years, is leaving to take up a new position as Assistant Professor at Humboldt State University in the US. Hunter is well known to many contractors around New Zealand, especially those working with cable logging systems, as he carried out many applied research projects around the country as part of the FGR research programme.

This resulted in Hunter running cable logging and planning workshops, as well as more recently Productivity Coaching for Rayonier and Ernslaw One crews.

Rien Visser, Director of Forest Engineering, at the University of Canterbury says: “While his departure will be a great loss for the School of Forestry, it is also an excellent opportunity for Hunter and his wife Katie.

“They head back to the place where they both studied, have family and he started his career, in the magnificent Redwood forests of northern California.

“Hunter will be able to make a valuable contribution not only to teaching the next generation of foresters there, but for example also help their logging industry as they start to expand into winch-assist operations. This is already providing some collaboration opportunities between the two regions renowned for cable logging and working on steep slopes.” NZL

Dr Hunter Harrill is moving back to the US.

TransDiesel takes on Dafo fire suppression TRANSDIESEL HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS the New Zealand distributor and certified installer for Dafo Fire Suppression systems.

Based in Sweden, Dafo is a leading global manufacturer of fire suppression systems, which are fitted to many OEM products including forestry machinery, construction equipment, port side handlers, buses and generators.

Most vehicle fires start in engine compartments and surrounding areas, so a tested and certified fire suppression system in combination with efficient fire detection, is the best first response in case of an emergency.

Dafo systems respond rapidly to excessive increases in temperature through a linear heat detection wire that automatically picks up the fire at a very early stage and uses Forrex wet chemical to quickly smother the fire, which is said to be more effective than water, dry chemicals or CO2.

Forrex is a highly effective agent for fighting machinery fires, displacing oxygen to douse the flames, cooling down overheated parts, impregnating any burning materials, sticking to hot surfaces and effectively

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preventing re-ignition.

The systems are designed to perform even in the most severe conditions and harsh environments, making them suitable for forestry.

“The broad range of Dafo products will allow TransDiesel to offer the best

solutions to meet the needs of our customers and allow us to offer, customised options,” says Jason Steele, TransDiesel National Aftersales Manager, adding that installations will be handled by trained technicians through its nationwide branch network. NZL

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Bigger T-WINCH coming...with NZ in mind WITH THE FIRST CAB-FREE T-WINCH MACHINE ALREADY working in New Zealand, a new and larger model has been developed which should be well suited to markets like ours.

A forestry operation north of Gisborne has been operating the first European-made T-WINCH, a 10.2, for a number of months to provide winch assistance to a skidder tackling steep hills with a full load.

Ecoforst, the innovative Austrian company that produces the T-WINCH, has developed the larger 30-tonne model called the 20.2, and nicknamed ‘The Big One’ for big machine markets like New Zealand.

Local T-WINCH distributor, FORCO, believes New Zealand contractors may prefer ‘The Big One’ for tethering large tracked felling machines.

Ian Wilton, Business Director with FORCO, says this larger model has been in development for some time and was originally called the 15.1, but further testing in Chile saw Ecoforst add more horsepower, more strength and heavier guarding, prompting the name change to T-WINCH 20.2.

“Building on the launch of the T-WINCH 10.2 worldwide last year, with T-WINCH 10.2 number three out of the factory working in New Zealand, Ecoforst will launch its much anticipated T-WINCH 20.2 in October this year,” says Ian. The T-WINCH 20.2 specifications are impressive, with a 414hp engine, 560 metres of 26mm rope, 15 tonnes pulling force and up to 8km/h line speed.

As with the T-WINCH 10.2, the 20.2 design is focussed on line speed. Markus Krenn, Managing Director of Ecoforst and inventor of the T-WINCH, says for true winch-assist systems line speed is key for smooth and reactive operation that avoids shock loading on the cable and ensures maximum traction on slopes. Line speed also enables effective use of winch assist with skidders and other ground-based extraction machines that run fast.

Ian explains: “While we know felling machines do not need to move quickly on very steep slopes, it is important to consider the rocking of the chassis as tracked machines move over bluffs and stumps, in these moments line speed is critical to pull in rope or let rope out fast to avoid loss of tension and shock loading, fast line speed also prevents rope slacking when a tethered machine stops and changes direction.”

“In each moment traction is lost, the top layer of the soil is damaged and protecting the top layer of soil is critical for the tethered machines traction and the environment.”

The T-WINCH 20.2 is controlled with the same fully automated technology as used in the 10.2. It is compatible with any machine

because no installation is required, simply hook on to any machine and begin operating.

The remote handset, which stays with the operator, controls all T-WINCH functions. The operator sets the pulling force once and can work all day without touching the remote again, if the tethered machine moves away from the winch it will let rope out, if the tethered machine moves towards the winch it will pull rope in, all while maintaining the selected pulling force.

Alternatively, different pulling forces, potentially a lower pulling force for moving downhill and a higher pulling force for moving uphill, may be selected. The T-WINCH maintains both different pulling forces all day, changing between them automatically with the tethered machine direction changes. This function eliminates the need to adjust the force manually when changing direction.

Ian goes on to say: “Ecoforst has managed to develop a purposebuilt winch-assist machine with leading technology, engineering and performance at a price lower than the competition, which is great for any logger considering moving to a winch assist system”.

Ian will be speaking about the T-WINCH at HarvestTECH 2019 on Day One in Rotorua this month. His presentation, entitled ‘Opening up traditional swing yarder terrain to ground based logging’ promises more than information about the winch-assist machines, such as the new T-WINCH 20.2. He will also introduce two new innovative products to be launched by Ecoforst very soon. NZL

The new 30-tonne Ecoforst T-Winch 20.2 is being launched with markets like New Zealand in mind.

Forest owners back levy in referendum FOREST OWNERS HAVE OVERWHELMINGLY voted to continue supporting the Commodity Levies Act Levy Order for Harvested Wood Materials for another six years in the just-held referendum.

The audited voting results, compiled by Research New Zealand, show that both of the voting majorities were higher this time than for the inaugural levy vote in 2013,

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although this time around, the total vote cast was slightly fewer than the 588 who voted in 2013.

The voting takes place among members of the NZ Forest Growers Association and the NZ Farm Forestry Association.

Although the sum of 30c per tonne is the maximum levy rate that was able to be set for any of the six years in the first

term the rate has remained stable at 27 cents since it came into being and will likely continue.

More than half of the money raised by the levy is used to fund the research priorities outlined in the NZ Forestry Science and Innovation Plan, as well as promoting the industry, underwriting biosecurity, training, fire prevention etc. NZL

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Tapu tops 10th anniversary Eastland awards

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“What is really notable for me having been involved in this since year one, is that we are not searching for excellence anymore,” says Sheldon.

“In a lot of these categories, there is real and genuine excellence which just wasn’t in the industry when we started harvesting in 19851986. The industry has certainly developed and grown. Our people are everything and we need to continue to encourage and celebrate their achievements and excellence.”

It was fitting to have such a high calibre of entries for the 10th anniversary awards. After a hugely successful run, Eastland Wood Council Chief Executive, Kim Holland, announced the awards would now be held every two years, with the next one to be held in 2021.

“After 10 great years, we felt it time to reflect and refresh the awards and want to thank our sponsors for their support,” she says.

2019 Eastland Wood Council Forestry Awards • Eastland Wood Council Skilled Professional of the Year: Tapu Dixon (Blackstump Logging).

Industry Development Awards • UDC Contractor of the Year: McKay Cartage • Pacific Haulage/Williams & Wilshier Outstanding Health and Safety Management Award: Williams & Wilshier.

• C3 Outstanding Regional Service Performance Award: Alan Paulson (Tairawhiti Timber Training).

• TransDiesel Outstanding Environmental Management Award: Mark Richards and Matt Schmelz (Eastland Port Infrastructure Team).

Training Excellence • Competenz NZ Apprentice of the Year: Arana Kuru (A&R Logging).

• Forest Enterprises Trainee of the Year: Hemi Tuapawa (Pride Forestry).

• Hikurangi Forest Farms Training Company of the Year: Williams & Wilshier and Pacific Haulage.

Skilled Professionals • Universal Engineering Forestry Excellence Award: Nafi Talai Vailea.

• Eastland Port Roading Excellence Award: Jack Kuru (Kuru Contracting).

• Summit Forests Harvesting Excellence Award: Tapu Dixon (Blackstump Logging).

• Mito Distribution Excellence Award: Peter Muir (Pacific Haulage).

• EIT Tairawhiti Wood Processing Excellence Award: David Rameka.

• PF Olsen Construction Excellence Award: Brian Deam (Big Bark Logging).

• Ernslaw One Faller Excellence Award: Matt Mackintosh (Big Bark Logging).

• Bain & Sheppard Pavement Excellence Award: Sam Morice (Hikurangi Forest Farms).

• Gough Cat Woman in Forestry: Megan Costello (Ernslaw One). NZL

Labour MP Kiri Allan presents Blackstump Logging’s Tapu Dixon with his award.

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BLACKSTUMP LOGGING’S TAPU DIXON was crowned Eastland Wood Council Skilled Professional of the Year, as well as winning the Summit Forests Harvesting Excellence Award, while veteran Warwick Wilshier was honoured as the champion of the industry for his huge contribution, particularly to log truck safety.

Warwick’s own company also won the trophy for outstanding health and safety management as well as Hikurangi Forestry Farms Training Company of the Year, with his Pacific Haulage employee, Peter Muir, taking home the MITO Distribution Excellence Award.

Big Bark Logging featured in two categories with Brian Deam winning the PF Olsen Construction Excellence Award and Matt Mackintosh the Ernslaw One Faller Excellence Award.

Ernslaw One’s Megan Costello was the winner of the inaugural Gough Cat Woman in Forestry Excellence Award. While Jack Kuru, another long-time veteran of the forestry industry, won the Eastland Port Roading Excellence Award, capping a second year of success for Kuru Contracting after his eldest son, Ricky, won the top award in 2018 and other son, Aran was Competenz Apprentice of the Year for 2019 (NZ Logger will profile the Kurus next month).

In presenting Tapu Dixon with the supreme award of the night, MP Kiri Allan described him as a true exemplar employee. Tapu was a teenager when he joined the forestry industry and now with some 20 years under his belt, he leads his team with an attitude of excellence. He is noted for his detailed preplanning, which leads to excellence in health and safety, environmental matters and good productivity. Tapu is considered an all-rounder who continues to demonstrate outstanding work ethic and skill.

The region’s forestry industry was the toast of the town as more than 500 people packed into the Farmers Air Showgrounds Park Event Centre to celebrate both the industry and the 10th anniversary of the annual Eastland Wood Council Forestry Awards.

Chair of judges, Sheldon Drummond, along with Forest Enterprises Gisborne Regional Manager, Dan Fraser and Competenz National Manager Forestry, Mark Preece, faced a tough time deciding on just a single winner in a number of categories. All were chuffed to see how far the forestry industry had come over the years and just how professional it is today.

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Export prices lower, local mills happier THERE WAS MIXED NEWS FOR THE NEW Zealand forestry industry last month as at-wharf gate prices slid another $2 compared with April, while sawmills finally got some respite.

However, the decrease was higher for lower value log grades and was not consistent across all export log buyers, adds PF Olsen in its latest market report.

CFR sale prices for logs, which had dropped over the previous two months stabilised in May, but the recent renewing of the trade war between the US and China means the market is again showing some signs of nervousness. The recent sudden depreciation of the Chinese Yuan against the United States Dollar is the biggest concern for log exporters to China as it reduces the buying power of the Chinese log buyers.

As a result of the latest movements, the PF Olsen Log Price Index decreased $1 to $130. The index is currently $1 above the two-year average, $4 above the three-year average and $12 higher than the five-year

average.

On a more positive note, PF Olsen reports that, for the first time in a while, virtually all mills report good log supply. The domestic market for logs has continued the very stable yet unspectacular start to 2019.

Most mills expect domestic demand for sawn timber to reduce over the winter months.

Some mills report an over-supply of pruned logs in the central North Island and Nelson, which is affected by increased salvaged volumes from the fire-hit areas.

Structural mills report the financials are hard to stack up for the burnt wood as they can’t send the chip to MDF and ironically, the drying of the timber is uneven.

While prices for pruned logs in the central North Island have remained relatively unchanged, log prices in the South Island have decreased. Many mills report they are now being offered more logs from suppliers due to uncertainty in the export markets.

Mills looking to increase production to take advantage of a lower NZ dollar and

increase exports need to look beyond Australia, where the sawn-timber market is very soft. The European clearwood market remains strong, but prices for the lower grade cut-of-log (COL) and cuttings grades etc are weaker.

PF Olsen says there are high stocks of sawn timber in most Asian markets particularly in China, putting pressure on prices. Sawn timber markets in other areas like Vietnam are also now facing price pressures, as volume is diverted.

Meanwhile, total softwood log stocks across China remain relatively unchanged from the previous month, at 4.1 million m3.

Daily uplift from the ports has reduced from the record 90,000 m3 per day levels and is not expected to rise much, as construction activity slows in the hotter summer months.

PF Olsen expects demand for New Zealand log supplies to remain steady, since the tariff spat is likely to mean even less log volume (and particularly southern yellow pine) arriving into China from the US. NZL

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Hose repair pod makes quality repairs easier AFTER LAUNCHING AN ON-SITE HYDRAULIC HOSE REPAIR and maintenance service that enables crews to make fixes themselves in a fraction of the time and cost, BOA has now introduced a new idea that makes the job easier for crews to handle.

And what’s more, crews can achieve similar results to those coming out of the original factory.

It’s called the BOApod, a mobile Hose Repair and Maintenance Facility that enables hoses to be assembled following the same principles used in the assembly of the machine. Claimed benefits are immediate hose replacement, significantly improved hose life and increased machine and staff uptime.

For the past 5 years, the people behind BOA Hydraulics, brothers Greg and Simon Boakes, have offered an alternative to the mobile service model, allowing contractors the ability to repair and maintain their own hydraulic hoses onsite, using products supplied by BOA. To make that process easier, BOA has put together a mobile facility that houses the German-made precision crimping and cutting machinery in a trailer-based unit it calls the BOApod.

The company says the tough and robust construction is built to handle the sort of conditions experienced in the forest, combined with dustproof and sterile materials to reduce hose contamination.

It says the BOApod is easy to use, with additional safety elements such as low voltage machinery, lighting, lockable compartments and all designed to be at an ideal safe working height.

BOA’s understanding of the forestry industry, based on many years’ experience, led to impressive design features being incorporated such as an easy hose handling system, a lightweight high-density polyethylene moulded body and aluminium internals for a quality finish and ample storage for spare assembled hose and fittings. A huge underbody drawer gives capacity to take away old hoses from site, which helps protect the environment and fits with their own zero-contamination goal, says BOA. With an eye for total quality, even the European torsion suspension and braking system on the trailer has been built to ensure customers can rely on the BOApod regardless of where it is towed and used.

BOA has partnered with quality hose supplier, Yokohama, to be the key New Zealand distributor for its products. The company believes that this latest innovation in hydraulic hose repair and maintenance is a step-change to the way contractors manage their crews and machines, and says it is looking to bring other innovations to the market in the very near future.

The new BOApod will be displayed at the HarvestTECH 2019 conference in Rotorua, with key BOA team members on hand to discuss it. NZL

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Kawasaki wheel loaders are now Hitachi NEW KAWASAKI WHEEL LOADERS WILL no longer be sold under their own brand name following a merger between Kawasaki Construction Machinery (KCM) and Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM).

They’ll now be solely available in New Zealand under the Hitachi name through CablePrice, but current Kawasaki distributor, MIMICO, will still be involved in the future.

KCM has been manufacturing wheel loaders for HCM for a number of years and both brands have been available here in New Zealand, but the plan now is to unify the brands under the Hitachi umbrella.

While Kawasaki wheel loaders will no longer be sold under its own brand the move will actually see the existing Hitachi wheel

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loader model line-up broaden to meet future demand.

The two distributors say the change ensures that customers, committed to the features and benefits of the Kawasaki model line-up, can continue to purchase and operate these machines under the Hitachi brand via CablePrice.

“Kawasaki wheel loaders have had a successful history with MIMICO spanning many years, and we look forward to continuing this success,” says CablePrice Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer Pat Ward.

He says CablePrice will be working to ensure a “seamless transition” for wheel loader customers through its 18-strong nationwide

branch and service network, which includes the appointment of Mimico as an authorised service agent so that Mimico can continue to service its existing Kawasaki customer base.

Chris Gray, General Manager of MIMICO, says both MIMICO and CablePrice have shared a strong relationship over many years and “we are working closely with CablePrice to ensure our customers experience minimal disruption to their businesses”.

He goes on to add: “I’d like to reassure owners of Kawasaki wheel loaders that they will continue to receive ongoing support for their machines now and for many years to come. We will be visiting these customers to explain how this situation affects them over the next month.” NZL

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Surprises at SNI awards AMONG THE SURPRISES SPRUNG AT THE SOUTHERN NORTH Island Wood Council Training Awards held in Palmerston North last month was one young forest worker who didn’t even know he had been nominated for a gong.

Stephen Travers was working in the Taranaki bush with Thomassen Logging when Cam Eyre from NZ Forestry drove up at lunchtime and told him to get into the ute.

Four hours later, after picking up clean clothes along the way and washing mud off, Stephen found himself at the Awapuni Racecourse with 330 other foresters and got the surprise of his life when he was presented with the Apprentice of the Year award, recognising an individual’s commitment to self-development and skill achievement through the modern apprenticeship programme.

Stephen, (who completed his training with PD Fleming) was last seen with a big grin on his face and a beer clutched in his fist at 3.00am, lost in the midst of a heaving group of foresters swaying to live music down Broadway in Palmerston North.

His was one of many positive stories told at the sell-out event, which opened with a moving tribute to the late Thomas Song from Ernslaw One’s Steve Couper, Chair of the Board for SNIWC, who said the passing of Thomas was a huge loss to forestry in New Zealand.

This was followed up with the announcement of a new SNIW Scholarship, worth $8,000 to the successful applicant over a maximum of four years to enter tertiary or training for forestry, which is detailed on the Wood Council’s website.

Above: Stephen Travers receives his award for Forestry Apprentice of the Year 2019 from Christine Ewart and sponsor Competenz.

Below: Award winners, from left Luke Kirk, Arnold Henry, Craig Allen, Gage O’Carrol, Stephen Travers, Dale Phillips, Taliai Katoa, Marcus Musson, Nick Whisker and Colin Wroe.

Absent: Geoff Ewington.

Facing page left: The Whisker Harvesting No 2 team, winners of Contractor of the Year 2019 award.

Facing page right: Gage O’Carroll, from GJ Sole Logging, receives her award for Trainee of the Year 2019 from Sean McBride and sponsor JNL.

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There were ten awards presented across the evening and Erica Kinder, CEO of the SNIWC says: “We had a very high calibre of nominees for the awards this year and all of the sponsorships for these awards were filled months ago.

“I know it will not be hard to replicate the feeling of camaraderie and celebration that filled the room for next year.”

2019 Southern North Island Wood Council Training Awards • Training Contractor of the Year: Luke Kirk, McDougall Logging • Harvesting Excellence: Arnold Henry, McDougall Logging

• Distribution Excellence: Craig Allen, C3 • Forestry Excellence (Silviculture): Taliai Katoa, Forest Measurement NZ • Outstanding Environmental Management: Geoff Ewington, Forest 360 • Contractor of the Year: Whisker Harvesting (No 2) • Outstanding Health and Safety Management: Dale Phillips from McDougall Logging • Trainee of the Year: Gage O’Carroll, GJ Sole Logging • Apprentice of the Year: Stephen Travers, PD Fleming (now Thomassen Logging) • Contribution to the Forest Industry: Marcus Musson, Forest 360. NZL

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Hoo-Hoo Club opens new home in Putaruru Local and international Hoo-Hoo Club members gather outside the timber museum’s Sycamore Conference and Function Centre before watching the Redwood seedling being planted.

MEMBERS OF FORESTRY’S OLDEST SOCIAL ORGANISATION, the International Order of Hoo-Hoo Club, gathered at the Putaruru Timber Museum recently to celebrate the opening of a special meeting centre.

The idea to dedicate one room to Hoo-Hoo was raised by Museum trustees during the course of their refurbishing the new Conference centre.

The opening of the Hoo-Hoo-Room at the museum coincided with the organisation’s annual convention being held in New Zealand for only the third time in 32+years, and Rotorua was the selected regional venue. This year’s event drew Hoo-Hoo Club members from Australia, the USA, Indonesia, Malaysia, as well as New Zealand.

The museum is currently undergoing a $1.5 million upgrade and the Hoo-Hoo Room is in its refurbished Sycamore Conference and Function Centre, named after late industry stalwarts Cam and Ron Sycamore, whose family continues to support the museum.

South Waikato Mayor, Jenny Shattock, joined Jack Miller, the US-based head of Hoo-Hoo International – whose quirky title is ‘Snark of the Universe’ and who prefers to be known as ‘Boston Jack’ – to perform a ribbon-cutting ceremonial exercise to formally open the Hoo-Hoo room, which houses a range of Hoo-Hoo artefacts and memorabilia from both local and overseas clubs to preserve them for future generations.

The pair later planted a Redwood tree to mark the opening of the new facility, which includes a library and work area to provide a place of respite for members, as well as being a venue for Hoo-Hoo meetings and for industry personnel to meet.

‘Boston Jack’ was very impressed with the new Hoo-Hoo Room, saying: “It was absolutely wonderful, and was much more than I expected to be honest.”

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Hoo-Hoo began in January 1892 in the US and today stands as the longest operative club on the planet. It was formed to bring together the many diverse aspects of the forest products industry, in good will and fellowship, promoting high ideals and an embracing code of ethics, to have fun and support various worthy causes and charities. NZL

Jack Miller, the head of Hoo-Hoo International (right), presents the official plaque to mark the opening of the HooHoo Room to Anthony Fitzgerald, President of the Auckland Hoo-Hoo Club.

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We came across such a case in Gisborne recently, after spying some interesting purchases by Danny Drummond-owned FRM (Forest Road Maintenance).

Danny had decided to follow his father’s lead when he made the decision to add harvesting capability to his forest roading business on the East Coast.

After all his father, Sheldon Drummond, had been the forestry manager for Juken NZ for many years and overseen numerous harvesting operations on the East Coast before leaving to run his own quarries.

Unsurprisingly, the advice from the ‘old man’ on what sort of equipment to put into the new operation centred around one particular brand; Kobelco.

The connection goes back a few years. The Drummonds had a 12-tonne Kobelco on their farm and had been impressed with its capabilities and longevity. That experience was among the reasons that persuaded Sheldon to specify Kobelco swing machines when Juken ran its own crews for a while, where they did an equally good

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Sheldon also had another piece of advice, according to Danny: “He said the first thing you need to do is ring Mark Hunt and get him to agree that he’s going to help you.”

And that’s exactly what he did.

Danny continues: “Because no one here had any logging experience we needed someone to train, supervise and make sure it was running properly and I spoke to Mark Hunt and he agreed to come in and help us. He’s got all the tickets and he used to run a logging crew for Juken.”

When Danny asked Mark about suitable equipment for the new harvesting / road lining venture, the Kobelco name cropped up again.

Mark was foreman of a Juken-owned crew that was running one of the big Kobelco processors and he confirmed to Danny that an SK500 would fit the bill admirably.

Funny that. Danny could easily have followed his own gut instincts because he already had a Kobelco SK500 working in one of his two road building crews and was well acquainted with its performance attributes. Second opinions can’t hurt though, and a new Kobelco SK500 processing base was duly ordered, complete

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Left: The conversion to forestry capability was carried out in record time.

Above: Good hydraulic performance was key in the selection of the Kobelco SK500 for this role. with a Woodsman Pro 850 on the end of the stick.

What his FRM operation has ended up with is two very different versions of the same piece of equipment working in close proximity to each other. And that provided an interesting opportunity for NZ Logger to compare the two machines, see how well each is performing in its allotted task and note the differences.

Before we get too far, we should explain what led Danny Drummond to be in this position in the first place. To do that we have to go back a few years and unearth the reason he’s in this business.

“I’d just finished school and I didn’t know what I was going to do and our neighbour needed some work done on their farm, so I used dad’s 12-tonne Kobelco to do a bit of contracting for them,” says Danny.

“That led to other contract work in local forests doing water tables and stuff, which I did for about six years. I was just cruising around and doing drains, skid rehab, deadman and stuff like that.”

As more work came his way, Danny purchased a truck and grader and got more into road maintenance.

His first major contract came from Juken in the shape of a small forestry roading programme over six kilometres, which included a lot of upgrades and required a more powerful machine.

“I leased a 50-tonne digger and did a whole season with it,” says

Danny.

“The next year I went to Porters and leased a different digger and a D8. That was when I was 25 and I’m 35 now. I’ve been doing road construction and road lining ever since.”

Danny also helped his father by managing the first quarry for a short time, in addition to the roading work. When a second, larger quarry was added, Sheldon left Juken to run both of them full time, allowing Danny to concentrate on his forest roading operations, which consisted of two crews until recently – one working in the Wharerata Forest and the other in Mangatu Forest.

Splitting his time between the two crews wasn’t ideal and neither operation was working effectively, so Danny made the decision to combine them into a single crew and add a road lining / harvesting capability to the existing road building role so he could pitch for larger, more comprehensive contracts.

What he wasn’t expecting was for a contract to come up in a matter of weeks, before he could obtain the necessary equipment for the harvesting side.

“I basically had two months to put it together from the time I got the contract,” says Danny.

Getting hold of brand new equipment in such a short time-frame proved challenging. The shopping list included a pair of Kobelco

Above: Thought was given to straightening the boom to provide more lift, but the FRM team decided to stay with the factory set-up and it hasn’t hampered the operation.

Right: Operator, Mark Hunt, says the Woodsman Pro 850 head is proving to be very accurate.

35-tonne grapple machines for loading and shovelling duties, a Kobelco SK500 with a processing head and a Tigercat 625 skidder.

Fortunately, Danny already had a Kobelco SK350 on order from NZ distributor, Mimico, that was going to be used for road building and when the new contract came through, the build was changed to include a high and wide chassis and additional guarding, along with a grapple instead of a bucket. Mimico also had a forestry-spec SK350 in stock that Danny was able to acquire, which came already equipped with a high and wide chassis, a forestry cab sitting on a riser and full guarding. This machine was also fitted with a fixed grapple from Ensign. And the run of luck continued with a Tigercat 625 also being available from stock at short notice.

The real headache was getting a Kobelco SK500 kitted out to do the processing.

Again, Danny was fortunate to secure an SK500 from stock but, unlike the smaller models in the Kobelco range, there’s no forestryready version. That meant an expensive and time-consuming fit-out – if he could find a workshop that could complete the job in time.

Wouldn’t a forest-ready SK350 fit the bill, instead?

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No. Danny had set his mind on the SK500, saying: “Dad had those three SK500s when he was with Juken and when I first rang up Hunty (Mark Hunt) he was like ‘what gear are you getting and he said to me you need to go and build a processor like your dad did’.

“I was already thinking about doing that anyway. Juken has some quite big wood in this forest, so if you look at 35-tonners you have to put extra oil coolers and stuff on them and I didn’t really like the idea of that.

“I wanted something that would have the reliability, which I’ll get with the 500. This one isn’t struggling, it has the big radiators, bigger pump flow and it’s not working as hard as a smaller machine.

I’d like to think it will do 15,000 hours or more trouble-free, and maybe at 10,000 I’ll buy a new head or rebuild that one.

“Funny thing is, if I was buying a machine for roading, I’d know what I want and wouldn’t get talked into or out of something because I’ve got that background knowledge. But with logging, whoever you talk to has a different opinion of what gear you need

and what size, and what size grapple and what size processor. So, this was a bit of a gamble but in the end I thought bugger it, just go for it – but it did help talking to dad, Hunty and also Chris Hurring and foreman ‘Buzzard’ (whose crew is working nearby).”

Danny was able to buy the only brand new SK500 in the country at the time and after a few desperate phone calls to Chase Murphy (MIMICO sales East Coast), Hamilton-based PFS Engineering “invited us for a visit to their premises, we discussed the build and they made some space to squeeze in the forestry conversion in the allotted time”.

It wasn’t a small job. After stripping back, the SK500 received a high and wide base, a full guarding package that included a new reinforced clamshell bonnet, changing the top rollers to bottom rollers on the tracks, a revised stick to accept the processor and installation of a PFS-designed purpose-built forestry cab.

“It was quite expensive,” says Danny, “but when you look closely at it you can see where the money went. Everything has been done

The first Kobelco SK500 in the FRM fleet, creating a road into the next landing.

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Apart from the guarding around the cab, under the belly and in front of the base of the rams, FRM’s road-building Kobelco SK500 is largely standard.

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really well. PFS was the only company that could get it in and done in time.”

That was more than six months ago, and the Kobelco has now clocked up 500 hours and averaging 300 tonnes a day.

Danny’s FRM crew is in the process of completing a stretch of road on the northern flanks of Wharerata Forest and installing new landings on the day we visit, while the harvesting boys are clearing a hill on the opposite side of the valley and tidying things up before moving on to a new job.

The Kobelco SK500 is tucked into the bottom of a slope, half-way up the valley, processing stems shovelled down by the purposebuilt SK350. It’s interesting to see how the SK350’s operator is using the fixed grapple to control the shovelling – I haven’t seen

many fixed grapples at work in the bush and I can’t help wondering if this could be a good alternative to a live heel.

As we park up, Mark Hunt takes a break from processing and brings the SK500 over to the roadside for closer inspection, opening up the clamshell bonnet to allow a good view of the 257kW (345hp) Hino 10.5-litre, 6-cylinder engine, hydraulics, cooling etc. There’s great access to everything and much more open than on the SK500 that previously worked in the Juken crew, which retained the small hatch above the engine, along with the original factory cab hidden under a ROPS/FOPS guarding cage.

This one looks much better prepared for the forest by comparison and the wide platform on either side provides excellent walkways.

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The PFS-built forestry package on the SK500 processor includes a clamshell bonnet, high and wide chassis, purpose-built cab and full guarding.

though it’s sitting on a high & wide chassis.

Inside the forestry cab it has a very professional finish, showing neat attention to detail with the trim and fitting of switches and controls. It’s a good size and there’s plenty of room behind the seat for Mark to stash his lunch box and wet weather gear.

In spite of the bars across the front screen, visibility ahead is largely unimpeded and Danny agrees that it’s time a wiper blade was fitted to the motor already there so that Mark doesn’t struggle to clean the glass behind the steel frame.

Back outside, Mark tells us that he’s happy to be at the controls of the SK500, even though he has limited experience with machines.

“This is probably the longest I’ve been on a machine in a long time – mostly I’ve done wire rope work, running the yarder crew for Juken for 12 years,” he says. “Maybe done 10,000 hours over my working life in a machine.

“The first time I drove a processor was in 1993, with one of the early Waratahs with the old falling bars and every time a tree came down it would shake the chain off.

“This is the best machine I’ve ever driven. It’s got immense power, decent size cab and you’re up quite high even without a riser. There’s self-cleaning track gear (it’s only been cleaned a couple of times but that’s all good, really easy to maintain).

Patting the Woodsman Pro 850 and nodding to the collection of stems on the skid, Mark says: “This head is astoundingly accurate in that rough wood. I’ve just run the tape over everything and it’s really

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good. I did some measurements the other day and I was only out by a couple of centimetres over three months.

“A lot of it is to do with the power of that machine holding the logs straight and you’re not dropping it all day.

“And this head has got that really neat sensor thing to find the ends – see that red light, it finds the end and it can’t be wrong. Now and then I give it a wipe with a tissue to make sure it’s clean. Most people have to cut another biscuit and it took me ages not to do that.

This head will even do small wood and not smash it up.

Although the head is equipped with an optimisation system, Mark says he doesn’t use it “as it isn’t really applicable in this work and I’m not that good with computers.

“I’ve set it up the way I set up my very first one and put all the lengths on one button and I watch the screen and look at the small end, so if it gets down to about 31cm I just put it in the K grade heap.

There’s no prune in here, so I’m just doing seven Juken cuts with 5.9 export A and K, 3.9 export A and K etc, it’s not complicated.

“And this is quite rough wood here, lots of holes and cracks and splits, and it would be a nightmare if you let the computer do it.”

Occasionally Mark will come across a very heavy stem but says the SK500 is exceptionally stable and never flinches as he swings the wood around, adding: “It’s 64 tonnes all up, that’s heavier than a swing yarder.

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Not much room to swing a cat, let alone a 12-metre boom/arm and bucket, but operator, Matt Kain, still keeps up a good pace.

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Above: Even with nearly 10 tonnes less weight than the processor across the other side of the valley, the road-building SK500 is still very stable when swinging around a full bucket.

Below: The Kobelco SK500 has impressive break-out force to tackle this rocky ground.

Bottom: Operator, Matt Kain, likes the smoothness of the hydraulic power delivery in the Kobelco SK500.

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Above left: The 10.5-litre Hino engine delivers sufficient power for both processing and digging – but it’s easier to access with the clamshell bonnet.

Above right: The view from both machines is good, even with bars across the front screen, as seen here from the operator’s seat in the processor.

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Mark says that he and Danny did discuss whether the boom should be straightened, for more lift, but cost and time ruled that out and he’s happy with the way it is now and reckons it would have been an unnecessary expense.

When there isn’t enough wood on the skid, Mark will occasionally take the SK500 out to the cut-over to do some falling and he says “it’s pretty awesome for that”.

But it’s designed to sit on the skid and, being in one of the wettest places on the East Coast, the crew makes sure to lay corduroy on the ground so it doesn’t dig itself into a hole as it’s processing.

With the darker morning starts, Mark appreciates the LED package that lights up the skid “like a Christmas tree”.

After a short processing demonstration Mark swaps with our Iron Tester, Sam Keefe, who stretches the full 10.5m reach to pluck out some very large stems to gauge the machine’s various performance attributes. His impressions, along with those in the other SK500 are contained in Sam’s Iron Test column on page 35.

As we watch, Mark says: “It can multi-function really well with all that hydraulic power coming through – and it seems to increase with use, which is good.”

Operating costs are good, too. The standard 640-litre fuel tank has been retained and Mark reckons he’s getting around 30L/hour, which is impressive for the work it is undertaking.

From our vantage point we can just see where the other Kobelco SK500 is working on the other side of the valley, pushing through a track to a new yarder landing and once Sam completes his tenure on the processor, it’s time to head over for some road building experience.

On the way, Danny explains the machinery make-up of this part of

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the crew, which includes the SK500 digger with bucket that arrived just over a year ago.

Assisting with the heavy ground work is a Komatsu D155 bulldozer, a Komatsu PC350, a couple of Kobelco SK140s that do water tables and load metal, a number of trucks to shift the dirt and a couple of graders and rollers.

Danny has used 50-tonne diggers in this lead role for many years and this particular machine took over from a Kobelco SK480, which has completed more than 11,000 hours and continues to work for the Drummonds, but in one of the quarries “That 480 is still pumping and we’ve only changed the track gear at 10,000 hours,” he says, “so I don’t see why we shouldn’t get the same service out of these machines.”

At the top of the ridge, the bucket-equipped SK500, with young operator Matt Kain at the controls, is eating away at a bluff to extend the track out to a landing that will be formed another 100 metres away, thus completing this section of the build.

He might be young – just 21 – but Matt seems to be doing a sterling job with the Kobelco, smoothly scouring the spur and passing the soil and rock behind him to the Komatsu to load the trucks.

Although they are basically the same machine, his SK500 looks very different from the processor on the other side of the valley.

Appearing much as it did when it emerged from the factory, it’s major concession to bush work is the safety cage built around the standard cab to provide the operator with full intrusion protection.

No high and wide or other major modifications were needed for road building, apart from some guarding under the belly, along the drive motors and across the bottom of the rams at the foot of the boom.

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Above left: The specially designed bucket is deeper, narrower and designed to be more effective in rocky ground.

Above centre: Processor operator Mark Hunt (left), was shoulder-tapped by Danny Drummond (right) to start up the harvesting side of his operation.

Above right: Matt Kain is only 21 but already a seasoned forestry road and landing builder. built by Gisborne company, Doherty Engineering, to Danny’s own specifications.

“I was really keen to get a bigger bucket that was going to do the job we wanted and would last,” says Danny.

“For this sort of digging, there is definitely a better shape to a bucket and when I went on their computer to look at their designs, we were able to makes changes to how I wanted it to look.

“The shape and width are important, often the bigger you go the wider they are but this bucket here is only 1.55m wide at the cutting edge and because we cut a lot of rock and we’re pulling on big stumps all day, that’s really hard on a bucket because it puts a lot of twist into it.

“I wanted a more compact bucket that is extra heavy-duty, so we used thicker gauge steel and it has a really big back in it, so it can still take a similar amount of dirt, but not get strained doing it.”

With that new bucket on the end, this SK500 has a longer reach than its processing sibling, able to dig into ground at 12 metres fully stretched out. The configuration of the boom/arm set is designed more with digging in mind than lifting, too. Digging force is rated at an impressive 267kN and there’s a power boost facility to push that up to 292kN for really tough ground conditions. Similarly, the power boost can be used to add more impetus when crowding. Very handy for dealing with the hard, blue rock that is scattered throughout this region.

Interestingly, this SK500 is also on the standard single grousers and there hasn’t been any thought given to upgrading these tracks because it is constantly on the move, rather than churning up the same surface.

Matt and Sam swap places so our Iron Tester can put his digging

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skills into practice and get a feel for how this machine compares to the earlier one. He’ll be wanting to assess the stability, because the Kobelco is perched on a very small platform, with steep drops either side.

As Sam begins digging, I ask Matt how he got into this job and he says it came around through family connections – his late father being a forestry supervisor.

“We’ve known Danny for a long time and I used to come out here in school holidays. He promised me a job and I started straight after school. I’ve loved it ever since.”

Matt was put into a 12-tonne digger to start with, doing blade work on water tables and loading out trucks, progressing to a 20-tonne machine before being offered the opportunity to create tracks, skids and landings with the SK500.

“I like the work, you’re always on the edge of your seat, it can be very steep in places and it’s challenging and can be hard, but I like that – it can be quite exciting,” adds Matt.

Watching Sam claw at the face of the hill in front of him, I ask Matt to explain the technique of creating a track on a spur like this without putting himself and the machine in danger.

He says: “The trick with this work is you make it wide enough for the machine and then drag yourself up and keep going. Go a boom length, to allow the following digger to get in and load trucks.”

And he makes sure he has maximum power dialled up all the time so that it’s not struggling when breaking out the rock face. Even working at that rate, the SK500 is still only using around 35 L/hour.

It’s a totally different type of work to what Sam was doing just a short time earlier, yet with pretty much the same machine. Just goes to prove there is still a place for a multi-use excavator. NZL

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Spoiled for choice GIVEN THE CHOICE OF EITHER of these Kobelco SK500s working with FRM, which one would I prefer to spend my working day in.

That’s a hard decision. I enjoyed my time behind the controls of both machines, and each has its attractions.

I suppose I would be drawn to the processor because I’ve spent most of my time harvesting wood, but there’s also something deeply satisfying about creating a new track or skid out of virgin bush.

The processor is very nice to operate. I like the cab. It’s very similar to the factory cab and just as comfy and roomy. You can put your feet up on the grille bars in the front and stretch out.

Visibility is good, helped by the boom being set set back. A riser would have given more view over the skid, but on the other hand this one is much easier to gain entry into. Hunty’s happy with it.

And I agree with him on the way he’s set up his controls for log making. It makes

sense for someone who hasn’t had a great deal of processing experience. I did notice that it was struggling to feed some stems through, which Hunty explained was due to it clamping harder for the bigger wood he’d been working with. We agreed that if it was working with smaller wood all the time, softening the clamp pressure off the knives would relax it a bit more and the driver rollers would feed through a lot easier, but it’s still very responsive.

The Kobelco is very stable and surefooted with such a big head on the end and there’s plenty of power in the slew – being able to swing a long, heavy stem around so easily shows you how much power it has.

I missed having a high lift boom, but it’s probably not necessary in this operation.

The switch to the bucket machine was remarkably smooth and relaxing. You don’t have all the buttons to push because you’re mostly using the levers to scoop up dirt and empty it behind you.

It felt a bit more agile than the processor

Iron Tester, Sam Keefe because it’s almost 10 tonnes lighter, yet still solid and well planted.

I like the bucket design that Danny has come up with. It has plenty of bite and it’s real easy to fill and empty.

You’re using this machine in a completely different way to the processor and it doesn’t lack for grunt. Lots of digging power and slew torque at the maximum settings.

There’s similar guarding for the cab, but you can still see easily through the bars on the front screen. Very good operator comfort inside the cab and it’s spacious, although not as much room for storage behind the seat. And it’s very quiet – the processor’s red dot A/C is a bit noisier.

An interesting comparison. I wouldn’t complain if asked to drive either machine full time. NZL

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T’S NO SECRET THAT THERE’S A SHORTAGE of log truck drivers across much of New Zealand, to the point where it has even led to harvesting operations being suspended temporarily when landings fill with wood.

As transport operators develop strategies to bring new blood into the industry long-term, what’s been eluding them is how to attract new drivers who can fill vacancies right now to alleviate existing pressure points.

“We need to do things differently, because what we’ve been doing up to now hasn’t really worked,” says Warwick Wilshier, Managing Director of Williams & Wilshier, which runs fleets of log trucks in the Bay of Plenty and on the East Coast.

“We are looking at bringing skilled drivers from Europe, as we know of other companies who are having some success, but it’s not the long-term answer. It’s about local people,” he says.

While that may include recruiting freight delivery truck drivers with Class 3/4 licences to get their Class 5 licence and then train on log trucks, it’s just robbing another part of the transport industry already critically short of drivers overall.

School leavers aren’t necessarily the answer either, except as long-term replacements, adds Warwick “because unless they’ve been brought up in the transport industry – their father’s a truck driver – they don’t have an appreciation of it and the risk is quite high.”

One solution is to target adults working in totally unrelated industries who might fancy a career change. But that’s not easy.

“What’s stopping people becoming a truck driver today? I’d say they are spoiled for choice. Unless you are driving a really flash rig, it’s not seen as a sexy industry.

It’s dirty and big hours,” says Warwick.

“Although, you’d be surprised once you do show people what it’s like to drive a truck and do those hours, they think ‘I can do that’.”

But it won’t suit everyone and Warwick says the industry has got to adjust and become more flexible.

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Warwick Wilshier, Managing Director of Williams & Wilshier. and a 70-hour week was typical and that’s got to change,” he says.

“Mind you, you still have a lot of guys in the industry now who like to do that.

They all like the money. But there is a whole group now who say I don’t want to do that, I only want to work 4 days and do fewer hours.

“They may not earn the big money that others do, but they’ll be able to go fishing, play golf or spend more time with their family and that’s what we have to cater for. We need to look at how we target those people.”

His company found that advertising in the local paper or other traditional outlets didn’t really get the results hoped for, so they turned to social media, like Facebook “and we started to get hits and we didn’t talk money or pay rates and all of a sudden we got quite a few enquiries. It was surprising the feedback that we got. We are also looking at doing a Youtube clip on the day in the life of a log truck driver.”

The big surprise was the different calibre of person that came from those efforts.

“We’ve got a guy who has started with us in Gisborne who has been an accountant for 14 or 15 years and says the money is very average and he suddenly thought ‘stuff it, I don’t want to do this anymore’. He reckoned driving a log truck is better,” says Warwick.

“He’s going for his Class 4 and 5 right now and he’s loving it. You think of how many others who are stuck in an office and not enjoying their work and probably not earning any more, we can afford to target those with professional careers.

There are log truck drivers who can earn between $80,000 and $100,000 a year.”

And not just office workers. Warwick says an airline pilot, also in Gisborne, has had enough of his flying career and is training to drive log trucks.

But that’s only one initiative that he believes is needed to recruit more drivers into log truck cabs. As an illustration, Williams & Wilshier is also assisting the Eastland Institute of Technology with its Tairãwhiti Road Training programme and working with Timberlands and RFH to train drivers on log trucks in Kaingaroa (see article on next page). NZL

Filling empty log truck seats in central North Island T HE SHORTAGE OF LOG TRUCK DRIVERS in the central North Island has led to a new training programme to help put newly qualified people behind the wheel.

The programme originally started with Timberlands and transport companies Rotorua Forest Haulage (RFH) and Williams & Wilshier in Kaingaroa Forest 12 months ago and training also now takes place in the Hancock Forest Management operation in Kinleith Forest.

“In Kaingaroa, Timberlands helps with the cost and pays the transport companies a training allowance, which goes towards getting a person’s Class 5L licence in addition to the operating cost of a truck operating without a trailer,” says Andrew Peddie, Harvesting & Marketing Manager with Timberlands.

RFH’s Matt Perry says: “We’re getting good success bringing drivers through – we’ve had 12 come through the system over the past 12 months across Timberlands estates.

“We have anywhere up to six trucks used on this training and we take them right through to truck and trailer certification.

“To date we haven’t done any advertising

around the programme, it’s all been word of mouth. We get a large number of people approach. They’ve heard about it in some way or know friends who have gone through it.”

Matt says there aren’t any plans to extend the programme, adding: “It’s a big cost, but more than that, it takes up a lot of resource, because we have two qualified full-time driver trainers who have to spend a lot of time with these guys and it soaks up a lot of resource. I think there are only 12 people capable of doing this sort of training around the country and we employ four of them.”

There are similar resource restrictions with Williams & Wilshier, whose driver training supervisor in the Bay of Plenty, Jason Williams, has been occupied almost full-time putting drivers through their part of the programme over the past year.

Like RFH, some trainees come via word of mouth, while others have been attracted through social media.

“We get a variety of people, some even up into their late 50s who want a change,” says Jason.

“Usually the first couple of weeks they’re

carting from the KPP to various sawmills around Rotorua. Then, as we monitor the driver, we widen the customer base.

“I had three guys who came to see me, in their mid-20s, within a month. They are all driving linehaul, all doing night shift and they’ve done it for a couple of years and they’ve had enough and wanted a change.

Because they all had full 5s we picked two easy crews at the KPP and they just carted to three different customers for the first week.

Just highway trucks, not stems. It’s all about getting them confident and to know where they are going. Everyone thinks Kaingaroa is flat but it’s not and it’s not easy to find your way around.”

“We’ve found loaders drivers in the crews are very helpful and will keep a watchful eye on the new drivers and make sure they pick up dropped gloves and don’t do anything that will put them in danger. They have a bit of a laugh but they are very supportive. They get out and show them how to throw a chain.”

“If you drive around the forest or on the road and you see a truck with two hi-vis tops in the cab it’s probably a driver under training.” NZL

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More cadet log truck driver training eyed for lower North Island A

SUCCESSFUL LOG TRUCK CADET TRAINING SCHEME operating in the Karioi Forest in the shadow of Mt Ruapehu could be replicated in the lower south of the North Island to help stem a driver shortage.

McCarthy Transport has been operating the cadet programme in conjunction with Ernslaw One, with dedicated trucks made available especially for upskilling drivers to gain their Class 5L licence.

It produces three-to-four new log truck drivers a year, but the company needs to boost those numbers, especially in the southern part of its operating region, to meet additional transport demands from the increased harvest, as well as replace those retiring from or leaving the industry.

Steve McDougall, CEO of McCarthy Transport says: “We are looking at doing a similar cadet programme in Whanganui and Masterton.

“We are just waiting for the details of the proposed driver licencing changes before we commit to putting any asset on the road but we know the future of our business is in growing operators and to do that you’ve got to have a plan to achieve it.”

Log truck driver training has been taking place in Karioi Forest for in excess of 30 years and Steve himself learned there as an 18-year-old but he says it’s only more recently that the scheme has become more formalised and developed with a proper structure.

“Through our agreement with Ernslaw One it enables us to train our new starts from Class 2,” says Steve.

“We’ve got a few Hino units that are used for this purpose that run between the Tangiwai saw mill and the Karioi pulp mill to get them up to Class 5L. We have the benefit of running from Karioi Forest into the pulp mill, which is generally all off-highway and then down to the sawmill which is 4kms on-highway, so they get a good range of experience.”

The majority of those drivers are promoted from within the McCarthy Transport ranks, but the company does take part in a number of initiatives to bring in new people. These include working with the Southern North Island Wood Council with school visits, careers days and other events etc.

The company has a partnership with the local college through the Gateway programme, where students go into the workshop and then into trucks.

“We’ve had a lot of success with young people, boys and girls, coming out of school who have either come straight to us or gone and driven a truck in the marketplace, whether it be for a market garden or a 6-wheeler for a construction company, but they want to get into that truck and trailer environment,” adds Steve.

How to attract outsiders is another issue. Steve says word of mouth has probably provided its biggest success in getting new people on board, adding: “We have one operator in particular who has brought three of his mates through the programme.”

In the Wairarapa, where driver shortages are particularly acute, the company has used radio to advertise for new people, which has

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been very successful.

But there is still a misconception outside the industry that log truck drivers are poorly paid and the job is unskilled.

“These days it’s anything but,” says Steve.

“One thing we are promoting in the forestry and transport sector is that the technology that is in machines and trucks is huge and there are opportunities to move into other areas, too. The financial benefits are a lot better than other sectors where you spend years getting a degree and end up with a hefty student loan.”

McCarthy Transport uses the industry’s Accelerator Licencing programme to train the newcomers through to Class 5 and then they are signed up for the NZQA Log Transportation National Certificate.

“We also promote the Log Transport Safety Council Pathway to Success programme,” adds Steve.

“Training is a big focus for us and opening opportunities to train new operators is the way we want things done.” NZL

Above: A trainee log truck driver with McCarthy Transport learns how to throw a chain over the logs.

Below: McCarthy Transport is upping it programme to put more drivers behind the wheel of rigs like this.

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Timber talk

Timber Design Guides launched

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HE FIRST OF A SERIES OF GUIDES that enable design professionals to better understand how wood performs during fires in large buildings has been launched in New Zealand.

‘Design for Fire Safety” is the first of NZ Wood’s design guides to appear in booklet form, aimed at showing architects, engineers, developers, quantity surveyors, building consent officials and other professionals the advantages of modern engineered wood products and timber systems.

The guides were originally envisioned as a series of five booklets, but this has grown

to at least 54, pending funding, which are expected to be rolled out over the next 18 months and funded by contributions from forestry, wood June 2019 | issue 39 processing, research and timber technology groups.

The result of a pooling of resources and guides – able to refute any spurious claims expertise of New Zealand’s technical timber made by competing structural material research organisations and developers, it is proponents.

Dr Helen Anderson, Chair of BRANZ, Scion hoped the guides will promote the uptake of prefabricated timber components and and MBIE’s Building Advisory panel, agrees, engineered wood products in New Zealand’s saying: “Good quality information needs construction sector and help medium-rise to be readily available to professionals, so timber buildings to be confidently specified. misapprehensions about timber’s structural This is an exciting time for timber, says Mr integrity can be quickly dispelled.

“At another recent conference, a UK van Houtte, adding: “Timber construction is becoming accepted for commercial and speaker blamed timber in part for the multi-storey buildings and as a preferred Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 rather than the material for prefabrication. Its seismic aluminium cladding and insulation. Such resilience properties are well proven and it attitudes urgently need to be challenged.”

Science proving timber’s excellent has strong environmental credentials.

“The guides should ensure good design, resistance to fire is one reason the Fire accurate costings and easy consenting. Safety Guide was the first to be released, With timber’s whole of life and proven which was expected to be followed in May recycling attributes, a more sustainable built by the ‘Designing for Prefabrication Guide’.

Ultimately, Mr van Houtte believes they environment can result as well.”

Timber expert, Professor Andy Buchanan, will become a cloud-based, searchable says these guides will replace the old ‘pink library available through a dedicated timber book’ for engineering and architecture design centre, although the guides will be professionals, demonstrating the careful available individually through www.wpma. science behind the facts contained in the org.nz in the meantime. NZL

Windsor Engineering buys RCR Energy

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EADING AUSTRALASIAN TIMBER KILN manufacturer, Windsor Engineering Group, has purchased the business and assets of RCR Energy, which had previously gone into voluntary administration.

The sale secures the future of this vital New Zealand business in the energy boiler sector, ensuring continuous employment for over 60 staff and numerous contractors and uninterrupted service for customers.

Maurice Davies, Director for Windsor, says: “RCR Energy, as Australasia’s largest thermal energy plant designer, is a great addition to our existing businesses. Windsor has been a long-time customer and supplier to RCR Energy, so this is a great opportunity to expand our service and offering.”

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Johnny Watson, General Manager of RCR Energy, is equally upbeat, saying: “It is fantastic that the business can now continue largely uninterrupted and that we can retain so many of our talented staff and provide them with security after this difficult period.

“RCR Energy is vital to the Australasian market and securing the company’s intellectual property through this sale is a significant benefit to our national independence and loyal customer base.

“We look forward to being able to expand our services and product sales to customers in line with the original expansion plans we made before our Australian parent company’s administration, and by now accessing Windsor’s impressive global

networks. We have had a long association with Windsor, which has an in-depth understanding of our business and the energy sector.”

The Administrators note that the sale of RCR Energy is the final sale in relation to the voluntary administration of the RCR New Zealand businesses.

RCR Energy delivers full design, manufacture and construction services for major thermal energy plants, typically these take the form of major power and steam (boiler) installations, along with maintenance and upgrades.

Windsor’s business involves drying, heat transfer, air movement, filtration and air pollution control. NZL

Timber profile

KLC is logged onto timber

Story Hayley Leibowitz Photos: Hayley Leibowitz & KLC

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TIMBER MILL WITHOUT TIMBER? Not quite, says KLC’s Project Engineer, David Lewis. Just not in the form of logs.

KLC, one of New Zealand’s largest timber treatment and re-manufacturing operations starts its process with kiln drying, skipping the saw milling altogether. The Radiata pine arrives as green sawn lumbar, still wet, in its rough sawn state.

“It comes from various sources depending on what we need,” says David, son of Managing Director and company founder, Kevin Lewis. “We dry it and develop it into a finished product. So we don’t do any saw milling. No logs come onto our site.”

He explains that with huge capital expenditure put into local sawmilling to cut logs by the likes of Sequal, Panpac, Tenon, CHH, Pacific Pine and Tregoweth, the company strategy at this stage is to buy sawn lumber from those companies and focus on the remanufacturing side.

“Both strategies have their pros and cons,” he says, “the main pro for us is getting the grades we want and not having to deal with the out-turn of the whole log.”

The result is a wide range of

Top: The KLC production site is based at the old Forest Service main workshop in Kaingaroa.

Above: KLC founder and Managing Director, Kevin Lewis.

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Left: KLC’s Generation 2 weatherboard fascia cladding system is among the company’s most successful product lines.

Above: Perfectly formed – newly made weatherboards emerge from the KLC production line.

Below: David Lewis, KLC’s Project Engineer. weatherboards, fascia and dressed boards produced at the fivehectare Kaingaroa village site, which at first glance, appears to be a maze of buildings and warehouses. It’s clear on a walk through the plant that this is a very well structured maze, which makes use of an unusual space.

In the heart of the Kaingaroa Forest, just south of Rotorua, the buildings were originally the NZ Forest Service Headquarters’ mobile plant workshop site. Once a thriving forestry town, changes to cutting rights ownership and the advent of new harvesting methods in the 1980s, took a toll on local employment opportunities. The village had been gifted to the local tribe and the site had been abandoned in 1987, just before the Forestry Service was disbanded. It was left desolate for 10 years except for the workshop, where David’s grandfather had set up a carpentry shop.

“The timber buildings here are all original Forest Service buildings built in the 1950s,” says David.

“A lot of the timber was the first rotation of logs coming out of the Kaingaroa forest, so when the first rotation came through in the ‘50s they had sawmills around the place. There was one actually sited not far from here and they milled a lot of the logs and built a lot of these sheds from that original rotation. We’ve adapted to what we’ve got.”

With individual sheds for different processes, the space has its challenges, particularly when it’s raining, having to transfer dry timber between sheds.

“But in general, it’s quite a good way of doing it and we’ve tried to keep our whole process flexible,” says David.

“Companies often make a line or machinery single-product orientated and we’ve tried to stay away from that. We’ve tried to make sure that all of our stations can adapt to the products

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Above: A forklift pushes sawn timber into one of the Windsor drying kilns.

Below: Pipiana Te Paa feeds shook into the HS200 horizontal finger-jointer. that we’re making at the time.”

Another challenge the site brings with it is isolation. Being half-an-hour’s drive from Rotorua brings with it both advantages and disadvantages, says David, pointing out that it’s no different from driving somewhere in Auckland but is perceived differently being further out. Plus, while the site is “as noisefriendly as possible” much of the noise they do make wouldn’t be possible in a built-up area.

When Kevin Lewis saw the abandoned site in 1997, he had a vision for its development.

The rest, as they say, is history. KLC now has close on 10 managing staff and employs 100 people on the ground. Starting with five hectares, KLC has slowly expanded into the site. Two shifts daily see the kilns running six days a week, 24 hours a day. KLC pays a lease on the land and owns all the buildings on site. Employees come from neighbouring villages or Rotorua and are “skilled up”.

“There’s socioeconomic challenges with the workers and we’re here to try and help with that. There’d be no factory without the people working in it. People go through Competenz training, so they get offsite training as well as on-the-job training,” says David.

To begin with, Kevin set his sights on the export market, developing strong business ties in the United States with a distribution

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system via a warehouse set up in Portland, Oregon.

So, by 2003 the company was well set up to be heavily involved with the clear board and finger joint market in the United States, says David, adding: “We were moving all our stock to the States. They had a lot of untreated material going there.

“But the decision was made that we could probably do better if we were to treat it, so we looked at establishing a treatment plant for LOSP for the US market. About that same time we upgraded our optimising saw from our chalk marking line and put in our first scanners.

“We fed the wood through the scanner and docked it up for shook and for DIY components for the States.”

At that stage the DIY market in the US was KLC’s bread and butter, producing fingerjointed products and DIY boards for the likes of Home Depot.

“From there it was finger-jointed, LOSP

Right: The modern production line is speedy and accurate.

Timber profile

All the wood waste, including MicroPro treated offcuts, can now be burned in the KLC wood-fired boiler, replacing coal.

treated and preprimed with acrylic primer, which anyone that’s been in that market knows is very tricky to get right,” David adds. The resin in the timber combining with the white spirit-based treatment of the LOSP could cause an unwanted reaction.

“We don’t use acrylic paint anymore, rather oil-based,” he says. “It’s just not robust enough to handle the job. So there were a lot of learning curves.” Learning from those curves grew KLC’s export market to include, not only the US but also Asia Pacific and Australia.

Then came the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007/8, which, David says “basically killed America overnight for us, so our market there disappeared”.

Add to that the Australian market for treated pine being cannibalised by cheap imports from South America and KLC had to reinvent itself overnight. Turns out the export market’s loss was New Zealand’s gain.

“We were close on 95% export-based and had no real domestic presence,” says David.

“We sort of flew under the radar in terms of manufacturing, didn’t promote ourselves as anything on the domestic front. Basically, we had to turn to that. Exchange rates around the world were stuffed so we had to find somewhere to sell, so decided to have a

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great crack at the local market.”

He adds that people were shying away from LOSP treatment and its accompanying problems and customers were wanting a higher grade of treatment. So, in 2008/2009 KLC converted its treatment plant to be dual process.

“When we built the LOSP plant we had a vision that it would be a water-based treatment plant as well at some stage in the future,” he says.

“For LOSP you don’t really need a lot of pressure so they aren’t built very robust. It’s just a real low pressure vacuum cycle. When we built it, we built it with the vision that it would one day be a water treatment plant so we built the cylinder and everything with the foresight that it could handle high pressures.

We had made our working tanks and everything slightly bigger to accommodate water-based treatment as well.”

The company has grown and changed over the years, keeping in line with market demands and environmental awareness. It has grown organically as each new process built on the previous one. Three Windsor Kilns were the first to be installed, the practically-named Kilns One, Two and Three, which are still in use. The old boilers ran on coal brought in by the truckload to be burnt to dry the wood.

“That’s how we first started making any money,” David adds. “We would just bring in the wood, dry it and send it back. I think about a year later we put in a small amount of processing – two Weinig planers.”

This formed into a manual docking line, docking the timber, machining it through planers and cutting high quality board to length. That extraction system was then paired with the boiler, which was converted to being able to burn both coal and waste wood – “when we could supplement our coal with wastewood our fuel costs went down which was good.”

Next came an optimising saw, another small planer and even a new shareholder in 2000.

“With that injection of capital, we purchased another planer, another extraction system and a Grecon finger jointer and optimising saw,” says David. “So then we starting cutting our own shook. After that came an acrylic paint line for pre-priming.”

He points out that the highs over the years have always been when KLC has installed new gear or increased its capacity in any way. Woodworking machines are all by Weinig, monitored by the parent company in Germany.

Apart from cutting logs into sawn lumber, the site allows for the entire process. Drying

right through to pre-priming, is done on site.

David says: “A lot of companies have to farm out work. They’ll send the drying somewhere and then they’ll send the fingerjoining somewhere else, or they might have to do the treating or painting elsewhere, but we’ve got it all in the one site, so we can monitor every step of the way. We even do the laminating ourselves.”

A game changer for KLC was a new process called MicroPro, which had been used successfully in the United States in the phasing out of CCA (Chromated Copper Arsenate).

Micropro gives H3.2 and H4 levels of treatment. It has environmental certifications including the Global Green Tag, meaning it has passed fit-for-purpose tests, and is safe, healthy and better for the environment.

“We were right on the cusp of that happening,” David says. “So we converted our plant to MicroPro, which was just a small upgrade but we had to upgrade the way we handled the chemicals going into the plant. That’s when we became MicroPro treaters, as our customers in Auckland wanted something better.”

Mike Liddington overses the infeed to the Powermat 2500.

There’s no green mill at KLC – the company’s focus is on taking sawn timber and producing final products.

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The dual LOSP/MicroPro treatment plant.

That was also the beginning of KLC’s Generation 2 weatherboard fascia cladding system. With a 50-year guarantee it “hit the mark in terms of what we wanted”.

Well above building code regulations for cladding, the product is fit-for-purpose.

2011 saw another upgrade of the entire plant.

“We added a 250m2 building to house a new Weinig planer, Luxscan scanner and Dimter optimising saws. Also, both of our finger-jointing machines were replaced with the latest technology that Weinig/Grecon could offer,” says David.

Now as environmentally-friendly as possible, KLC no longer uses coal and

David says: “We’re completely selfsufficient with fuel. Being MicroPro we have consent to burn the shavings. If it was any other treatment, like CCA, we wouldn’t be allowed to.”

He adds that it’s taken “that long, from about 2011 until now, to really get market presence and awareness”. Whilst the emphasis is currently on the domestic market, KLC has stepped back into the States and Australia in a small way and now produces around 75% domestic and 25% export.

In terms of volume, KLC sees around 3,000m3 come in each month, with 2,000m3 going out. Still expanding, David says the company is bringing in another finger jointer this year to try and push that out to 4,000m3 coming in and 2,700m3 going out.

As to the future, David points out that the market’s been ‘pretty solid’ for the past few years domestic building-wise.

“Auckland’s been really good for a wee while,” he says. “The whole country really – Hamilton, Tauranga – seems to still be moving along quite well. We’re still pushing our brand and brand awareness.

“Basically, we want to make people aware of what they should be putting on the outside of their house and show them that there is a choice that they can make. We think timber’s the better option.” NZL

Lorosio Yabakidrau (left), Solomone Kaitani (centre) and Marina Warren feed the Hydromat 2000 with MicroPro-treated finger-jointed blanks.

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Prue Younger, CEO Message With a number of phone calls from contractors a few months ago around or afe inspectors putting up improvement notices for hauler guards and the unrealistic expectations to get them sorted, we invited or afe representatives along to the Yarder Tower Inspectors workshop in Cambridge. There was open discussion around this topic and examples given where some of the issues had been around relatively new machines and the questions posed where there have been no guards, are guards required and what deems sensibility over compliance The biggest issue was consistency across the country and knowing what the expectation was from or afe. It would be advisable that or afe and industry talk to the equipment providers on this too as new machinery should be coming out fully kitted up to meet the regulations. Where there are unguarded areas, the contractor feels more than often they have covered this o in their hea th and safety p an and common sense dictates that the crews now c ear y how to manage this when in operation which is to stay clear as this is what they have always done. How do we balance what is sensible and practical versus the need to physically guard against any potential injury or harm? So I have gathered feedback across a selection of industry representatives on this topic.

Regional Voice - Safety Guards Matt Stewart – Stewart Logging

I think for me it is the issue around consistency of inspection, inspectors being on the same eve p aying fie d and thro gho t my discussions with FICA the number one “big deal” for us is contractors. In discussions with others, there is a responsibility to each operator to use their common sense to not go near the hauler while it s being operated or any machine for that matter. It is in our plant risk assessment to not go near any machine while they are in operation so we tr st o r sta to not st see this as meeting their obligations but realising it is for their own safety. It is hard to rationalise the focus points as we know the haulers have moving parts but so do most things with an engine. It’s getting to the point where I feel eventually they will want our rims/tyres covered on our work utes, they are moving too. A machine like ours is a newer hauler which with technology upgrades has reduced the risk areas substantially, whereas older haulers ergers ispatchers h nderbirds etc may need the extra guarding. I’m not saying they do but I’d prefer the focus of inspectors was on that era of machine, and not those born in the 2000’s. Anyway our skid site has taken on ye ow stands and tape to g ard o e ipment ndergoing maintenance to hopefully abate the improvement notice we were issued!

Phil Kirk – Waimea Engineering Ltd.

While I agree that in some cases guarding on parts of yarders can be diffic t and cost y to carry o t some tho ght around workability and materials used to cover or restrict entry should be considered.

Looking at other sectors and machinery guarding may spark ideas for protection that may not have been used in the past. As an engineering company we have had to add guarding to our own equipment over the years and most of the equipment wasn’t designed to have s ch g ards fitted hi e sometimes these can be restrictive sta in time get sed to sing them and change the way they carry out jobs.

Another thing to consider is that large and heavy guards can become a hazard in themselves then they will be hard to remove and refit by the service peop e that wor on yo r machines ost ladder entries to yarders are steep and can be quite restrictive to access have seen some very good retro fit ideas of stairways and access ladders and some very poor ones. So in general, we all know what is wrong and right and importantly to support change is to be part of the adoption of better ways to do things then we and o r sta wi accept them more readi y

Brady Clements – Forest Safety Management Ltd. I believe consistency across the country with all or afe inspectors is paramount in regard to what or afe expects to see in terms of guarding on haulers. From a contractor point of view, we need to consider the hierarchy of controls when implementing controls to manage the risk of the hazard that has been identified s having administrative contro s in p ace to manage the risk of not having a guard in place the best way to manage the risk? s a simple guard put over the area which has been identified as a ris a more ade ate contro to comp ete y eliminate this risk to your workers Common sense needs to be brought in here too where sometimes it may be deemed npractica to p t a g ard in p ace as it may a ect the way the hauler operates etc. he or afe inspectors need to be e ib e when iss ing improvement notices to contractors in regard to completion dates for the compliance of these notices. As contractors when we receive these notices and are working towards completing the corrective actions, we need to remember to keep good open communication going with the or afe inspectors. If the issue is not going to be completed within the timeframe, we need to explain this to the or afe inspector in a timely manner before the due date on the notice and apply for an extension on the notice n ret rn the or afe inspectors need to be e ib e with this and allow the notices to be extended. Good communication between both contactors and or afe inspectors is paramount in this situation.

Hamish Owen – Kohurau Logging I’m not personally aware of any compliance issues in Northland and or afe Inspectors are certainly not instigating too many unnecessary improvement notices but I can see there is potential.

Inspectors and contractors respect that guards do need to come o ha ers from time to time for modification and repair Contractors must get better at managing this temporary exposure, whether it be documenting it and carrying out the risk assessment and control or even sing danger tape which is better than nothing.

We also need to use our hauler down time during crew shifts or other maintenance jobs to sort out guarding issues with their engineer. However the reality is that rates really don’t cover downtime to constantly park up haulers for maintenance but we are obliged to manage the risk. Other industries would just roll their spare machine out of the yard!

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First harvesting results of 2019 LAST ISSUE SAW THE FIRST SET OF RESULTS from the value creation end of the forestry business (pruning), indicating a great start to the year Now we have the first results for 2019 from the value recovery end of the forestry business (logging) and it’s already clear that competition is hotting up across the sector.

Some names will be very familiar to readers of Top Spot, as they continue to set the performance pace in the competition, while others are appearing for the first time and giving established players something to think about.

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So a big ongoing thank you to our Strategic Partners – STIHL and NZ Logger and sponsor SWAZI. The best way to keep our industry

working is to get out and support those businesses that support New Zealand.

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We understand the commitment it takes from them to be part of Top Spot and value their ongoing support and feedback.

Our ongoing thanks to Rayonier / Matariki Forests, Wenita Forest Products, Port Blakely, Crown Forestry, Brand Logging, CMH Logging, Hauraki and Moehau Logging, Thomassen Logging, Te Waa Logging, Lakeland Cable Logging, Logged on Logging, Pakiri Logging, Inta-Wood Forestry, Otautau Contractors, Heslip Forest Contracting, Waikato Forestry Services, Hodgson Silviculture, Makerikeri

Silviculture, NJ Simns Forestry Services, SAS Forestry, XMen Forestry, Central Forestry Services, Mangoihe Logging, Kohurau Contracting, Tohaia Forestry Harvesting, Kuru Contracting, Dennis E Hayes Logging, Swain Logging, Lumberjack Logging, Ernslaw One, Blue Wood Logging, Mike Hurring Logging, McCallum Logging, Whisker Logging, Kaha Logging, Lahar Logging, Dempsey Logging, Moutere Logging, JBD Harvesting, McDougall Logging, Forest View Logging, Kimberley Logging, Dewes Logging, X Men Harvesting, Pakiri Logging, Storm Logging, Lumberjack Logging, Eastside Logging, Veal Forestry, McHoull Contracting, Johnson Forestry Services, Pride Forestry, Halley Forestry, Penetito Forestry, FM Silviculture, Forest View Forestry, Wayne Cummings, Rodco Forestry, Johnson Forestry, Pro Forest Services, and Eastside Logging.

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2019 RESULTS – PERIOD ONE FUNCTION BREAKING OUT CABLE

TREE FELLING

QC / RETRIM

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MECHANISED FELLING / PROCESSING

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HAYDEN DISKIN NOBLE JONES QUINTIN QUE BRIAN KENNY CHARLIE BALLE STEVE CANDY WITANA MURRAY ELIAH SAVAGE GEORGIA BALLE ANTHONY TIPENE CRAIG BALSON LAWRENCE TEKA TRISTAN ARMSTRONG JIMMY HONA ZAC PINNINGTON ADAM DIAMOND PHILLIP PARR

MOEHAU 99 FOREST VIEW 12 MOEHAU 99 MOEHAU 99 HAURAKI 91 BRIAN KENNY CMH 60 MOEHAU 99 HAURAKI 91 MOEHAU 99 RIBBONWOOD 11 TE WAA 7 MOEHAU 99 CMH 60 HAURAKI 91 HAURAKI 91 FOREST VIEW 12

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The Moehau 99 crew, from left, Anthony ‘Golly’ Tipene (first in GBE / Shovelling), Charlie Balle (second in Tree Felling), Solomon Walker (second in Machine Operating on the Landing), Tristan Armstrong (first in Mechanised Felling / Processing), Dave Cox (third in Yarder), Brian Kenny (first in Tree Felling), Eliah Savage (first-equal in QC / Trim) and Hayden Diskin (first in Breaking Out Cable).

Phillip Parr, of Forest View 12, was second in Yarder for Period One for 2019.

Georgia Balle, of Hauraki 91, was third in QC / Trim for the first period of 2019.

Quintin Que, of Moehau 99, was third in Breaking Out Cable for the first period of 2019.

Cory Solomon, of CMH 60, was third in Machine Operation on the Landing in the first period of 2019.

Lance Stevens, of Hauraki 91, was first in Machine Operation on the Landing in the first period of 2019.

Jimmy Hona, of CMH 60, was second in Mechanised Felling / Processing in the first period of 2019.

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FALCON FOR LUMBERJACK

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Lumberjack logging has taken delivery of a Falcon Claw 1750 for its East Coast operation, north of Gisborne, running on the crew’s Madill 171. The Falcon Claw 1750 is manufactured by DC Equipment and runs the new single cylinder HATZ engine with work lights and infrared camera system for low light operation. It comes with a grapple opening of 2 metres. Pictured, from left, are Les White, Chris Stuart (sitting), Monty Te Whaiti, Steve Thorne (DC Equipment), James Wilson (sitting) Keanu Awatere, Khelan McIlroy (sitting) and Dan Herries (owner).

Tony and Simon Brand, of Canterbury’s Brand Logging, have taken delivery of their second new Tigercat 632E after being impressed with the power and operation of the first one over the past six months. Pictured, from left, are Simon Brand, Hamish and operator, Lee. The machine was sold by Steve Varcoe of AB Equipment, Christchurch.

HYUNDAI FOR R&A Ryan and Angel Donnelly, of R & A Civil and Logging, have traded in an older Hyundai R250LC-9H/C machine for a new Hyundai R290LC9H/C forestry-spec build, with Ensign grapple, seen here working in Maromaku, Northland. Ryan and Angel had been looking forward to the improved production from the new machine and haven’t been disappointed. Porter Equipment North Auckland/Northland Territory Manager, Paul Gorrie, made the sale.

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CAT & SATCO FOR HAURAKI Hauraki Logging has taken delivery of a new Cat 548 and SATCO 630H. The new machine is working alongside an existing SATCO 630H on a CAT552 in the Whangamata area with great sea views.

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KOMATSU FOR LLOYD MANUKA HITACHI The innovative team at NZ Manuka Group has put another Hitachi ZX 130-5B to work harvesting wild Manuka on the East Cape.

Operator, Mike, loves the power and control of the auxiliary hydraulics for running the specialised harvesting equipment.

Issac and Sheree Lloyd, of Lloyd Logging, based out of Whangarei, have taken delivery of a new Komatsu PC 270LC-8, equipped with an Active guarding package and an Ensign 1730C log grapple.

Terry Proctor, operator, is very impressed with the new machine.

Pictured, from left, are Edward Lloyd, Hone Murray, Channing Green (foreman), Cameron Cave, Reuben Lloyd, Hilton Lloyd, Rowena Lloyd, Issac Lloyd, John Kosar (Komatsu Forest NZ) and Terry Procter. Photo: Viv Hunt.

DAVIES TIGERCAT & WOODSMAN PRO Ruth and Alex Davies, of Davies Logging in Canterbury, have taken delivery of a new Tigercat 875, fitted with a Woodsman Pro 750, upgraded from their older Sumitomo SH300TL. The extra power, speed and hydraulic cooling from the new Tigercat has reassured Alex he made the correct decision, and operator, Matt Park, is very impressed with its performance. It’s been set up with the Loggic control system software to manage the head, which also features single bolt-on knife inserts for ease of maintenance. Pictured, from left, are Matt Park and Alex Davies. The sale was made by Steve Varcoe, of AB Equipment.

DOUGLAS CAT Douglas Logging, in Dargaville, has taken delivery of a new purpose-built Cat 568LL Forest Machine, running a Woodsman Pro 850, which is proving to be a great harvesting combo. This is the sixth Cat 568 to join the Douglas Logging fleet. Jimmy Brewin, Northland Territory Sales Manager for Gough Cat, sold the machine.

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KANE HYUNDAI Les and Norma Comer, of Kane Holdings, have replaced an older Hyundai with a new R180LCD-9. Weighing in at just over 19 tonnes, the new machine also runs the company’s mulcher and stump grinder with ease, making it an ideal woodlot clearing machine. The newcomer joins a long list of Hyundai machines Les has purchased from Porters over the years. The sale was made by Porter Equipment North Auckland/Northland Territory Manager, Paul Gorrie.

JOHN DEERE & SOUTHSTAR FOR ROSEWARNE Rosewarne Contractors has taken delivery of another John Deere 959MH, fitted with a SouthStar felling head. This machine replaces an older 909KH that had completed over 16,000 hours. Seen here is Tristen Matthews, about to take charge of ‘Aqua Man’, as the new 959MH has been dubbed, in the Glenbervie Forest in Northland.

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Terry and Debbie Marshall, of Tauranga-based Marshall Logging have taken delivery of a new Komatsu PC 270LC-8, which has been fitted out with an Active heavy-duty forestry guarding package and an Ensign 1730IH log grapple. Operator, Mark Te Kani, is already a fan, saying it has “heaps of track power and slew”. Pictured, from left, are Mark Te Kani, Zane Marshall, Terry Marshall and John Kosar (Komatsu Forest NZ). Photo: Adam Redmayne.

This new Volvo EC300DL Forestry Carrier made its way deep into the Waimarino for Smiler Katane of Lahar logging. Smiler and the crew are stoked with the new machine and put it straight to work in the cut-over, shovelling logs for the hauler. The new factory-built EC300DL is set up with a new Ensign 1730 HTC grapple and was sold by Ewen Satherley, of TransDiesel.

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ONWARDS HYUNDAI Owner/operators of Onwards Logging, Stacy Habib and BJ Sidney in Tolaga Bay, have taken delivery of a new Hyundai R290LC-9 High Chassis grapple loader to assist their expanding business. Their logging operations are currently located inland from Tokomaru Bay, in an area renowned for hot dry summers and very wet winters.

The new machine is fitted with single bar grouser plates, a custom PFS Engineering APC, with a full cut-over guarding package and complemented by an Ensign HT1730 grapple. Porter Equipment Hawkes Bay/Gisborne/Taupo Territory Manager, Roger Pedersen, made the sale.

CAT 330 FOR DG GLENN This new Cat 330D2L is a recent arrival for DG Glenn Logging and has been put to work in the company’s Hawkes Bay and East Coast operations. The newest Cat is impressing operator, Neil, with its overall performance, reach, fuel economy, speed and power. The machine was delivered by Heath Stewart from Gough Cat.

KOMATSU & WOODSMAN FOR FIRSTCO Pete Smith, of Firstco Forest Harvesting, has taken delivery of a Woodsman Pro 750 installed on a Komatsu PC300LC-8, working in the Mihi area, just outside Reporoa. This machine running the latest version of the new Loggic software programme, features onebolt replaceable knife inserts and new skid plates.

TIGERCAT & SATCO FOR HALE G Hale Logging, based in Tokoroa, has a new Tigercat 855E and SATCO 630E with Auto-tensioning and harvest lock. The new unit has gone to work in the central North Island, alongside two existing, SATCO-equipped machines to take care of the slopes and reduce the amount of manual falling.

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ANOTHER SATISFIED ELTEC CUSTOMER Well, Steven Stokes should be satisfied with his second Eltec FH417L, which is now working in Woodhill Forest. He is the joint distributor for this market! That’s Steven on the lef t, getting a cong r atulator y cuddle from Jonny Edwards of joint distributor, Shaw’s Wire Ropes.

POMEROY HYUNDAI Pomeroy Logging has purchased a second Hyundai R320LC-9 to work in its lower North Island operation. The sale was made by Porter Equipment Manawatu/Wellington Territory Manager, Josh Hunter.

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SUMI & WOODSMAN PRO FOR KAKAHU Andrew and Joseph Cox, of Kakahu Logging, recently took ownership of this Woodsman Pro 750 fitted to a Sumitomo SH300-5TLFS base machine. The 750 features the Loggic control software. Steve Varcoe, of AB Equipment, made the sale.

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Tracy Burrows and Mike May, of Geraldine-based Cable Logging, have taken delivery of a new Tigercat LS855E with the FD5195 felling head after studying the leveller concept for their steep slopes and being convinced this is the way to go. The Tigercat LS855E is teamed with a new Sumitomo SH300-6 fitted with a Waka winchassist set-up for their hauler operation in South Canterbury. Tracey, pictured with each of the machines, is very happy with the combo.

The sale was made by Steve Varcoe, of AB Equipment.

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FOR SALE: Clark F665, 666, F667, Cat 525B Grapple Skidder, JD648G, TJACK 460, 560.

DOZERS: Caterpillar, D4H, D6C, D6H, Komatsu D65 + D85, tie back dozers, D85/21.

Excavators: Caterpillar 320, 322, 325, 330, B,C & D. Hyundai 250/9 Volvo 240C log rigged.

Teebar manufactured and sold. Wheeled loader WA470/3.

Lakeland Heavy Machinery Ltd

Branches now in the NZ LARGEST RANGE OF SKIDDER SALE:BETTER Clark 664, 666C, 666B, F67 Grapple Skidders North & South Island HEA FORAND CHAINS, HEAVIER Komatsu D65/6 and D85/21 log rigged, CAT 936, 950B and Komatsu WA470/ wheeled loaders, buckets or forks.

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Zaxis 270Standard with teebar. Teebars in stock.

D7H with30.5x32 winch - Weight 365kg Machines

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PC350/6 with teebar or grapple DYH with winch

Cat and Komatsu Pumps Komatsu Pumps

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