NZ Logger October 2019

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Two John Deere machines tackle different challenges in Whanganui NZIF honours Forester of the Year

WoodTECH 2019: High-tech future for sawmills

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FOREST TALK Zero carbon target needs wood industry; Totara logging venture launches website; fine after trainee logger hit by felled tree; Hikurangi Forest Farms is now Aratu Forests; marginal land should be targeted for new forests; optimising pine stand can add $1.7 billion in value; Taupo pellet plant is steaming; Toroawhi forestry pilot – looking for an H&S champion; Claymark sold to NZFFP; new earthquake test for wooden structures; Sam Reece flies Oceania flag at Hitachi Top Technician competition; school tree-planting reaches Gold Card milestone.

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NZIF CONFERENCE 2019 The annual NZIF conference, which took place in Christchurch recently, brought together both forestry spokespersons from the government and opposition as speakers to the event. Plus, celebrations for those receiving awards, including the 2019 Forester of the Year.

WOODTECH 2019 Sawmills and wood manufacturers were given a view of their high-tech future at last month’s WoodTECH 2019 conference in Rotorua, along with some good old-fashioned commonsense advice on how to improve their processes.

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SHAW’S WIRE ROPES IRON TEST 1 Two iron tests for the price of one in this issue. The first looks at how Hickford Logging is using a big John Deere loader to make life easier on the landing. Why would it need a live heel?

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SHAW’S WIRE ROPES IRON TEST 2 Just across the road from the Hickford crew, CJ Newland was mopping up its woodlot operation with a brand new, top-of-the-range John Deere processor.

Why such a big machine for woodlots?

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from the editor

The cost of not supporting sawmills

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NZIF honours Forester of the Year

WoodTECH 2019: High-tech future for sawmills

This pair of John Deere swing machines were working just across the road from each other, near Whanganui, when the NZ Logger Iron Test team visited their owners.

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WAS LISTENING TO A COMMENTATOR TALK ABOUT HOW THE RECENT drop in log prices would be a godsend for all the local sawmills.

In a simplistic way he was right. Lower log prices will cut the input costs of sawmills and eventually that would feed through into reduced timber prices.

It might even see the cost of housing come back a bit – though I’m not holding my breath for that to happen.

But the reality is that all our international competitors have just received a price cut, too. So those Kiwi wood processors and manufacturers who export to other countries are no better off. And we’ll probably see some of Johnny Foreigners’ cheaper products land on our shores, in competition with local producers.

Hardly a win for our millers.

But they’ve got more problems on their plate. Their major overseas competitors already have an unfair advantage, even without taking the recent log price tumble into account.

They get assistance from their governments that end up costing our wood processors and manufacturers big time. It comes in many forms. Take your pick from; help with building new mills and production plants, cheap finance, subsidised power, subsidised labour, subsidised shipping, export subsidies, taxes and tariffs on competitor products, rules and regulations that favour locals, not to mention bribery and corruption of officials to put blocks in the way of the competition.

Little wonder that Wood Manufacturers & Processors Association CEO Jon Tanner took another opportunity at last month’s WoodTECH 2019 conference in Rotorua to call out the government for its lack of support for our millers, as you can read on page 18.

Basically, he reckons our politicians and officials are naïve in thinking that everyone plays by the trade rules around the world. They don’t. And some are quite blatant about bending – or even writing – the rules in their favour.

Various ministers, and even the PM herself, have raised their concerns with misbehaving nations about the need for a fair go. Has it made a difference?

Not one bit.

As Dr Tanner points out, more anti trade barriers have been erected in the past decade than have been removed. The playing field is most definitely tilting away from us.

It’s time for us to be more creative in how we help our wood processors and manufacturers to redress the balance, whilst still keeping within the spirit of the WTO rule book. We don’t have the clout to be a trade bully, like Donald Trump, nor would we want to be. But some subtle rule tweaking could go a long way to right a few wrongs.

Will it happen? Only if our politicians and officials are brave enough and canny enough. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that happening, either. NZL

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Zero carbon target needs wood industry IF NEW ZEALAND’S AMBITION IS TO BE A zero-carbon economy by 2050 then it must nurture its wood industry.

Many industries claim to be driving towards lower emissions, but none have the low carbon profile of the wood sector, according to Wood Processors & Manufacturers Association Chair, Brian Stanley.

He says: “No other major industry in New Zealand can deliver carbon sequestration, carbon storage and emissions reduction like the wood industry…and (it) now has independent, third-party certification extending right from the forest to the marketplace to prove that our wood-based packaging and construction products do the right thing by the environment.

“Our customers in New Zealand and overseas expect no less.”

WPMA says this is highlighted by having both major international certification programmes for forestry; the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification and Forest Stewardship Council guarantee that wood products from New Zealand come

from sustainably managed forests.

Additionally, WPMA has just launched its Environmental Product Declarations for wood products, which provide independent assurance of the environmental credentials of wood.

“It’s crucial that our customers understand the significance of these environmental guarantees,” says Mr Stanley, “this is why we will, very shortly, also be launching environmental guidance to architects and engineers as part of the WPMA Wood Design Guide Series.”

Whilst the New Zealand industry is getting on and proving its worth in terms of environmental protection it is being seriously undermined by overseas subsidies distorting the NZ market.

“If the Government wants a zero-carbon manufacturing sector creating good jobs in the regions – and the NZ wood industry is a perfect example of this – then it must play a much more active role in helping it to grow,” says Mr Stanley.

“The Minister of Finance has made it crystal clear in his directions to the

Brian Stanley, Wood Processors & Manufacturers Association Chair.

Overseas Investment Office that he wants foreign investors in forestry to support local wood processors and manufacturers.

It’s disturbing to see that 90% of OIO applications to buy forests in NZ in the last couple of years make absolutely no attempt to do this. Is the OIO listening to the Minister I wonder?

“A zero-carbon economy isn’t just going to happen. It needs to be driven by every mechanism that the government has at its disposal. The NZ wood industry is one of the few sectors delivering a triple-bottomline of regional wealth, strong community and environmental enhancement. Let’s be sure we are doing everything we can to grow it.” NZL

Totara logging venture launches website A GROUP THAT IS RUNNING A TWO-YEAR study into the viability of a Northland Totara timber industry has unveiled a website to explain the project and its social, economic and environmental objectives.

Under the project, timber from Totara trees on Northland farms is being harvested selectively under a ‘continuous cover forestry’ model and milled as part of a two-year project to assess whether the native tree can be managed sustainably for commercial use.

The Totara Industry Pilot (TIP) project will assess the forest resource; harvest and process up to 500m3 of farmed Totara logs; collect data and research results from drying studies and trials; conduct milling trials, product and market testing; and develop and analyse the business case for a regional Totara timber industry.

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regional industry based on the sustainable management of regenerating Totara and summarised by the vision statement ‘he Totara tuturu, he iwi t? tonu’, or ‘sturdy Totara, sustainable communities’.

“TIP aims to restore the mana of this wood and improve the health and quality of Totara on private land, resulting in an increased area of native forest on farms and Maori-owned land,” says project manager, Elizabeth Dunningham.

Project team member, Paul Quinlan, says the group wants to see Totara valued again by landowners as it once was by Maori, adding: “We want to change the way landowners view this resource as something that has environmental and commercial value, something that needs to be nurtured, tended and encouraged, rather than cleared and converted to pasture.”

TIP believes a successful Totara industry will lead to sustainable management of existing regenerating forest and scrubland, encouraging the planting of new areas, increasing the area of native forest on private land.

To explain that vision, the new website (www.totaraindustry.co.nz) features a video outlining the TIP project and presenting an overview of its objectives, along with a section explaining the various workstreams, an overview of the organisations involved, plus a comprehensive question and answer section.

Mr Quinlan says: “We want to change the way landowners view this resource as something that has environmental and commercial value, something that needs to be nurtured, tended and encouraged, rather than cleared and converted to pasture.” NZL

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Marginal land should be targeted for new forests A MAJOR NEW ZEALAND CARBON-FARMING BUSINESS SAYS there is more marginal land available for forestry without losing valuable farms to mass tree planting.

The government has been pushing farmers to plant significant numbers of trees to help offset this country’s future carbon liabilities, with claims that as much as 30% of productive agricultural land may be required for this purpose in order to meet our greenhouse gas emissions targets under the zero-carbon bill.

According to New Zealand Carbon Farming CEO, Matt Walsh, around 16% of our 2050 target can be met by planting trees on marginal land.

He told Parliament’s Environment Select Committee that none of the planting needs to be done on arable land, a point that was questioned by MPs who say Government officials have told them 30% of agricultural land would be required.

Officials are wrong, he says: “We have had a series of debates with officials on this subject.

Hikurangi Forest Farms is now Aratu Forests FOLLOWING ITS SALE TO A GROUP OF INVESTORS, Gisborne-based Hikurangi Forest Farms (HFF) has been renamed Aratu Forests.

Australasian forestry investment company, New Forests, says it has completed the purchase of the HFF estate, which includes around 25,000 hectares of Radiata Pine plantation on 35,000 hectares of freehold, forest rights, and leasehold land, along with the Optilog stem processing plant.

A formal launch of the newly rebranded business took place in Gisborne last month.

Meanwhile, New Forests says it is continuing to implement an ownership transition plan to ensure continuity of operations.

The new Aratu Forests business employs 32 staff directly and spends over $40 million annually in the East Coast community.

“We are encouraged by the positive engagement with stakeholders through the transition period and look forward to further collaboration to support the long-term sustainability of this regionally significant forestry asset,” says Matt Crapp, Director, Operations, for New Forests.

Additionally, Aratu Forests Limited will continue to be responsible for the ongoing legal proceedings related to breaches of the Resource Management Act following the Tolaga Bay storm damage in June 2018.

“We will be actively pursuing strategies under the relaunched business to ensure that our management practices learn from the outcomes of the Tolaga Bay storm and meet local regulatory and international third-party forest certification standards,” adds Mr Crapp. NZL

“We have shown them our maps. We have demonstrated the evidence of what is available in terms of marginal land to plant and for reasons that we don’t understand, they disagree.”

NZ Carbon Farming’s Compliance and Regulatory Manager, Jill Garing, reckons that officials are only looking at large areas of marginal land for planting, ignoring the small pockets available on individual farms. Planting these small areas for carbon could provide valuable income for farmers and, collectively, add up to a large amount.

NZ Carbon Farming owns or manages 73,000 hectares of post-1989 forests under the Emissions Trading Scheme and says it expects that total will balloon to around 120 million trees by 2050, which is sufficient to meet 3% of the country’s net-zero carbon dioxide emissions target.

Mr Walsh says that with the right ETS settings his company could push that figure to 600 million trees, or 60% of the One Billion Trees programme and meet 60% of New Zealand’s 2050 target. NZL

Fine after trainee logger hit by felled tree A NELSON FORESTRY COMPANY HAS been fined $25,000 after appearing in court over a logging incident that left a young trainee worker unconscious.

Tree and Forest Limited appeared at the Nelson District Court following a November 2017 incident in Motueka Valley in which the worker was struck by a felled tree.

The court heard that crew members working near a tree falling operation had been told to apply the two tree-length rule, but no measuring equipment to ensure the safe operating distance was provided.

Grant Duffy, WorkSafe’s Engagement Lead for Forestry, says it is clear the workers were working too closely together as the trainee was hit by a tree being cut by the faller.

An investigation by WorkSafe found the crew of trainee workers was not adequately supervised.

“Doing half the job is just not enough in forestry and the failure to accurately identify the exclusion zone meant the victim was able to walk into danger,” says Mr Duffy.”

“There were multiple issues involved in this near-tragedy. The workers did not have adequate supervision;

additional training, supervision or disciplinary action was not provided for workers known to be working in an unsafe manner; and there were no systems or equipment in place to ensure safe working distances.

“This incident occurred as a combination of all the company’s failings and they are extremely lucky this young, inexperienced and unsupervised worker was not killed.”

Mr Duffy said risks inherent in felling trees and the hazard of falling trees are well known.

“That’s why there are safety rules, and not implementing safety rules appropriately is simply unacceptable.

“In the last year there have been five fatalities in the forestry and logging industry. Last year there were 138 injuries resulting in workers needing a week away from work.

“In a high risk industry such as forestry, supervision of trainee workers is integral. This is a wakeup call to all crews to ensure they are not putting their workers at risk of injury.”

A fine of $25,000 payable over five years was ordered, due to the financial circumstances of the company, along with $2000 reparations. NZL

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The Toroawhi forestry pilot – looking for an H&S champion THE FOREST INDUSTRY SAFETY COUNCIL (FISC) is looking for someone to be a health and safety forestry champion for a pilot project aimed at ensuring a strong workers’ voice in the sector.

Workers know what makes work successful on a day-to-day basis and they play an essential role in reducing work-related injuries and ill-health. Therefore, good worker participation is critical to successfully managing work-related risks.

This view was reinforced by both the Royal Commission review into health and safety following Pike River, and the Independent Forestry Safety Review following the 10 fatalities in 2013. There is still more to do, as this year’s toll is already up to five following the death of a logger in Taranaki in August.

FISC’s Fiona Ewing says: “We’ve done lots of good work with the sector since the establishment of FISC, but we still need to crack the gnarly problem of how to ensure there is a strong workers’ voice.

“In our sector it can be very difficult to

create ways for workers to have an influential voice in health and safety and work design decisions, due to the nature of the workforce, crew size, remote locations and work organisation.”

One way of addressing this gap is the idea of roving or regional health and safety champions, so FISC is working on a pilot project to test this idea in our sector. The role has been called ‘Toroawhi’, which means ‘collectively we create the momentum for change’. The champions will operate in the community and across multiple worksites, supporting worker engagement and participation as well as supporting businesses to improve practices.

They won’t be a WorkSafe inspector or union rep so they won’t have any regulatory powers or be on a membership drive. Their role is to support the sector by providing additional expertise and soft-skills (great communication and people skills, etc) especially for smaller businesses where this work can be more challenging.

Taupo pellet plant is steaming THE NATURE’S FLAME WOOD PELLET PLANT IN TAUPO has secured a steam supply from a nearby geothermal plant to dry its products.

The steam supply from Contact Energy will largely come from downstream of the Tenon sawmill, which has been using geothermal energy since 2007.

The move is part of a multi-million programme by the plant’s owner, Norske Skog, to bring the facility up to its full capacity of 85,000 tonnes of pellets a year.

The additional energy supply enables the company to utilise equipment that was installed at the site but not operating when the business was acquired from Solid Energy in 2015. It will also save on sawdust and shavings that currently need to be burned to run the plant’s driers.

The Taupo plant currently produces about 40,000 tonnes a year for domestic and export customers. The lowmoisture and low-ash pellets are a premium product and the new capacity is likely to go into overseas markets like Korea and Japan, according to Nature’s Flame Operations Manager, John Goodwin.

He goes on to say the upgrade is on schedule for completion by the end of the year.

Norske Skog, which also operates the Tasman paper mill at Kawerau, bought Nature’s Flame as part of a long-term strategic shift away from paper and into other sustainable options for wood fibre use. While it remains a major paper maker, in Europe it has been developing options for making biogas from mill sludge. In Australia it partnered with Circa Group to make the ‘green’ biosolvent Cyrene from wood waste. NZL

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Regional pilots in the UK and Australia showed positive outcomes for workers in improving participation and engagement, and also a positive impact on key business outcomes, including productivity. As we know, good health and safety is good business.

If you could be a champion, a Toroawhi, or you know someone else who could be, please email – or ask them to email – fiona.ewing@ fisc.org.nz and FISC will be in touch.

What is Toroawhi?

• One-year pilot project, co-designed with WorkSafe, with the aim to improve worker engagement and participation in the sector • One-year fixed-term contract for two people to be based regionally; region selected will depend on quality of candidates • Funded by WorkSafe • Role reports to FISC and will be co-branded Toroawhi and Safetree • Good development opportunity for someone looking to transition to a new role • Recruitment will begin in November – who could be your region’s Toroawhi? NZL

Optimising pine stand can add $1.7 billion in value OPTIMISING RADIATA PINE STAND density could increase the net value of New Zealand’s plantation estate by $1.7 billion, according to Scion researchers.

In an article in a recent Scion Connections newsletter, the research team of Dr Mike Watt, Mark Kimberley, Jonathan Dash, Duncan Harrison, Dr Juan Monge and Les Dowling, used productivity indices Site Index (SI) and 300 Index (I300) to develop a model that predicts the optimum final crop stand density (SOPT) for a standard structural grade regime. Using this model the team was able to develop productivity maps, or surfaces of SOPT covering the whole country.

The average predicted SOPT for growing structural grade logs across New Zealand was found to be 614 stems per hectare. As the current final stand density for structural grade regimes averages around 500 stems per hectare there is definite scope for increasing the volume of high-value log products, the team says.

More recently, the researchers have run a series of simulations to check the accuracy of the model’s SOPT predictions and to look at the potential economic gains of optimising stand density.

Net value per hectare, internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV) were all found to increase linearly as stand density approached SOPT; beyond SOPT values increased very slowly or plateaued.

Increasing stand density to SOPT will result in gains in gross and net value of around $5,200 and $2,320 per hectare and a 0.44% increase in IRR. The potential gains for the entire plantation estate are $3.8 billion (gross) and $1.7 billion (net).

Scion says forest owners and managers can use the developed model with input parameters that reflect their specific situation to plan targeted operations to optimise stand density and maximise the value of their crop. NZL

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Sam Reece flies Oceania flag at Hitachi Top Technician Competition WEST COASTER, SAM REECE, WILL BE representing his country and the Oceania region at the finals of the 2019 Hitachi Top Technician Competition.

Sam, who works at the CablePrice branch in Greymouth, took top honours in the recent Oceania regional competition in Australia and now goes on to Japan to face other technicians from the rest of the world.

The annual Hitachi Top Technician Competition has run for 17 years and CablePrice has a proud history in the event having won it twice and been runners up several times.

The competition tests various levels of skills including finding faults as well as diagnosing machines, written theory tests and reporting in front of a judge’s panel about various findings regarding the machine in question.

Earlier this year in Auckland, after having

already competed against 13 New Zealand competitors, Sam took out the title of Hitachi Top Technician for New Zealand before taking part in, and winning, the Oceania round at Hitachi Construction Australia’s Revesby Branch in New South Wales.

Sam’s day started with a 90-minute practical on the latest ZX-5B excavator, where a number of faults prevented correct operation of the machine.

Sam’s excellent fault-finding skills saw him walk away from the practical round with the highest marks before going onto the theory exercise and questioning by an expert panel, to be judged the top techie.

Sam will travel to Japan this month to compete at the Hitachi Top Tech world finals on October 17 and 18. Track his progress on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ CablePriceNZ/. NZL

Claymark Group sold to NZFFP NEW ZEALAND FUTURE FOREST PRODUCTS HAS acquired 100% of Claymark Group Holdings from its controlling shareholder.

Claymark operates six manufacturing sites in New Zealand and generates revenue of approximately NZ$185 million. It is a global leader in manufacturing high quality New Zealand radiata pine wood products with some 600 employees.

NZFFP Managing Director, David Henry, says: “Claymark is rightly considered to be one of New Zealand’s most successful wood exporters, with value-added products provided to international markets and well-established brand recognition amongst its customers for its precision approach to manufacturing. These characteristics are essential to NZFFP’s corporate ethos”.

The transaction includes all Claymark’s operations in New Zealand and the United States, subject to certain conditions being satisfied prior to completion. Mark Clayton, who has led Claymark for 30 years, becomes a non-executive director of NZFFP for three years as part of the transaction. NZL

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CablePrice Greymouth’s Sam Reece holds his winning medal from the Oceania round of the Hitachi Top Technician Competition.

New earthquake test for wooden structures A NEW SYSTEM THAT TESTS THE STRENGTH OF WOODEN STRUCTURES during an earthquake has been set up at the University of Canterbury.

The University has been carrying out research on earthquake resilience of buildings for many years, which led to the development of a posttensioning solution for building tall wooden structures that can withstand strong earthquakes.

Now engineers at the Christchurch facility have devised a test to investigate how core wall structures, such as frames used for elevator shafts and staircases that are crucial anchor points for buildings stand up during strong tremors.

They’re testing the resilience of an 8.6 metre core-wall using hydraulic rams to measure how much force a timber structure can take to measure its flexibility.

Building Research Association of New Zealand’s David Carradine says the lower density of timber, compared to concrete may allow for lower forces and smaller foundations, which could reduce building costs for structures up to 10 or 12 storeys.

The researchers are creating a computer model to understand how these types of wooden structures within a building will behave under different earthquake scenarios, which will be used in developing building design guidelines around stable and more effective timber core walls. NZL

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School tree-planting reaches Gold Card milestone Above: Measuring trees in Coronation Forest are, from left, Brightwater School parent Nicole Ching, and students Oliver Thibodeau, Lucas Fenemor, and Kerwin Taylor Left: Brightwater School students, Amy Dunn (left) Alexia Cosmatos (centre) and Sophie Field (right) check out the wildlife among the tree tops.

SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM ACROSS THE top of the South Island marked another milestone for the Coronation Forest near Richmond with a mass tree planting programme last month.

It’s the 65th year planting at the forest has happened, with the third generation of children taking part in the programme.

The Coronation Forest was the idea of Arnold Cork, who was the Senior Agricultural Instructor for the Nelson Education Board in the early 1950s, says Nelson Forests Ltd’s Heather Arnold.

“He realised early that forestry was destined to play a major role in the New Zealand economy and thought that the best way for children to appreciate this was for them to be involved in their own forest,” says Heather In 1953, the first year, schools were given a supply of tree seeds to establish their own small nurseries to raise seedlings to supply

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tree stocks for planting at Coronation Forest.

The first year of planting at Coronation Forest was in 1954 and covered six hectares of Douglas-fir planted by 712 children from 20 schools from across the Nelson region.

Since then, planting at Coronation Forest has occurred every year.

Heather says about 300 children take part each year. It is common for there to be parents in attendance who also planted trees at Coronation Forest, and there is now a growing number of third generation planters attending.

“Nelson Forests Ltd staff and contractors look forward to the event each year, with the workers involved volunteering to be part of the day, running activities and acting as guides for each school group as well as cooking sausages and milo for the children,” she adds.

The forest was named Coronation Forest as it was the year Queen Elizabeth II was

crowned. Heather says there were many Coronation Forests set up nationally, but she thinks the Richmond forest is the only one still active.

Last month, a number of children from schools in Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough took part in seedling planting, plantation studies and a conservation walk through native bush in the forest.

Brightwater School Year 6 students who took part were excited about their involvement, saying they recommended other students take part.

They were impressed that about 200 truck and trailer loads of logs are produced from the forest each working day and that is how much the rest of the forest grows each working day Riley, aged 10, says he had a great day and he liked “learning everything about trees”.

Brianna says the day was “amazing” – “I loved it. The activities were fun.” NZL

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Jones says farming not at risk from forestry FORESTRY MINISTER, SHANE JONES, HAS ADMITTED AT THE recent NZIF conference that overseas investment changes skewed towards more forests and a focus on planting one billion trees to help combat climate change has led to farmers feeling “alienated”.

But he adds that their fears of farming being under siege from forests are misplaced and there is no chance of the rural lifestyle disappearing.

Mr Jones accepts that the approach led to alienating substantial segments of the agricultural community “who fear that I’m dislocating and destroying their historic lifestyle” but says that “I don’t believe forestry has any chance whatsoever of doing that”.

He adds that much of the land currently in pasture was never designed by mother nature for that purpose and was always cloaked in trees: “As a result a lot of our estuaries and rivers in NZ are silted beyond recognition.”

Which highlights New Zealand’s legacy of taking the environment for granted, says Mr Jones emphasising the need for catchment and soil consolidation.

As Minister of Regional Development, he says the strategy

of investing in the provinces includes backing forestry as a key feature of the regional economy. He says raw materials need to sustain rural industries that employ people in the space of processing, some manufacturing and sawmilling.

All of this can be achieved with the help of grants and correctly allocated funding but it’s a “work in progress”, he says.

Furthermore, the Minister says more effort needs to be put into attracting investment into establishing more wood processing within New Zealand to use some of the whole logs currently being exported.

Mr Jones also backed calls within the forestry sector for a review of the “outdated” regulations governing the role of genetic science, in particular genetic editing.

“We need to use scientific and technology prowess to create new solutions, for instance sterilising pine in the South island so it doesn’t blight the landscape reproducing when the wind blows,” says Mr Jones.

To enable that to happen, Mr Jones says it will require quality communication, skilled advocacy and rational facts for tools such as genetic editing to be accepted. NZL

Forestry can do more than hill farming IT’S THE CAPITAL-INTENSIVE NATURE OF PLANTATION FORESTRY and its profitability relative to sheep and beef farming that will make the most impact on future forestry, says Peter Clark, Forestry Advisor at PDC Solutions and former boss of PF Olsen.

Speaking at the NZIF conference on The Future of New Zealand Forestry, he highlighted the impact of climate change, freshwater quality and technology, with plantation forestry providing the most opportunity at least cost to the taxpayer.

As to the argument from the farming sector that livestock is essential, Mr Clark points out New Zealand feeds just 20 million of the 7.5 billion people worldwide.

“There are substitutes for both meat and milk that are far more energy efficient to produce as well as being less environmentally damaging,” he says.

He cites three reasons commercial plantation forestry will continue to thrive in New Zealand: • The world needs more wood fibre • Substitutes for wood are more energy intensive and more environmentally damaging • Growing wood fibre in New Zealand, especially large dimension softwood logs for solid timber applications, is a more profitable land use than drystock farming for our hill country.

He says conversion of pastureland back to forest is not restricted to New Zealand but is on the rise in China, the US and Europe.

Drivers of change in New Zealand forestry include the fact that climate change and acceptable freshwater quality are now seen as actionable causes. He believes though, that the response in terms of tree planting should not be to focus only on natives.

“To make a difference, land use change to forest cover is needed at scale, i.e. in excess of 500,000 ha over the next decade,” says Mr Clark.

“To get that sort of area planted needs serious cash inputs – and serious cash inputs need a sound business case to invest. That case

cannot be made with natives, even with the planting subsidies on offer.

It can with pines.”

Climate change and the accompanying intense storms and higher fire danger also need to be considered, particularly when it comes to the resulting sediment and debris discharge.

“That is our industry equivalent of the nitrogen pollution that is threatening the dairy industry’s licence to operate,” he says.

“While we may not completely avoid sedimentation following harvest, we can mitigate it through excellence in road and landing construction, using bigger and more culverts, good fluming, hay and grass seed on exposed batters, and smaller logging coups in highly exposed catchments.”

As to fire, he says: “Our most valuable contribution to fire prevention and fighting in the future will be ensuring we have the silviculture contractor workers and staff who understand vegetation fire behaviour and can do the foot soldier work, along with controlled burn-offs.”

When it comes to technology, he believes drones and aerial and terrestrial laser scanning will be used more and more by forest managers to “see things, make maps, collect data, and improve and lower the costs of forest inventory”.

Mr Clark believes: “Big data and computer visualisation will remove the human error and variability in log-scaling, logs and timber supply chain tracking and certification. It will allow forest managers to make better forest establishment, tending, harvesting and marketing decisions.”

Other advances in artificial intelligence, he predicts, will continue to aid steepland harvesting, reducing worker exposure to harm and improving productivity, as well as, with time, driverless trucks.

Ultimately, he believes plantation forestry has a bright future in New Zealand: “Let’s publicly challenge alternative facts published in the popular media about the negative impacts of forests on society relative to livestock farming. We should also embrace the technologies that will digitise our forestry world, rather than not.” NZL

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Look at the wider picture – carbon changes ‘too narrow’, say Nats GOVERNMENT CHANGES TO THE Emissions Trading Scheme are skewed too far towards forests, says National Party forestry spokesman, Todd Muller.

He told the NZIF conference his party does not support the “narrowing down” of the opportunity for foreign investment into the country just to the forestry sector.

“Expect us to signal that we want foreign investment to play a wider role in the country.

When you narrow it down to the degree this government has done, you run the risk of creating incentives which don’t work for the wider economy,” says Mr Muller.

He is concerned that the structure of the

emissions trading scheme is different from the initial intent, which was to incentivise those who are emitting carbon to look to alternatives in research and development and other avenues to apply to their businesses to slowly reduce their emissions over time.

“But it really hasn’t incentivised the right behaviour. Our emissions are still going up,” says Mr Muller.

He points out that large emitters would say their ability to reduce their gross emissions in the short to medium term is limited, driving them to the only alternative available to them in the current context which is looking for offsets. And in today’s world that just means

forests, says Mr Muller, adding that it’s a nuanced and challenging area that needs work.

New to the portfolio, but with a background in agriculture and management, Mr Muller agrees that forestry is a huge part of our export story and should be encouraged.

However, he says: “Sheep and beef and dairy farmers are expressing a level of anxiety which I haven’t seen in the 20-to-30 years that I’ve been involved in the primary industry.”

He adds that the extreme language in which this argument is framed is “not helpful” for the wider conversation that we need to have. NZL

Overcoming steep slope challenges THE SLOPES ARE GETTING STEEPER, THE MACHINERY’S GETTING bigger, costs are still high and the environment’s playing a stronger role when it comes to steep slope harvesting, the University of Canterbury School of Forestry’s Rien Visser told the recent NZIF conference.

Prof Visser says the mainstays for successful harvesting operations are; they must be physically feasible, financially viable and socially acceptable.

With over 50% of our harvest in the next few years on slopes steeper than 40%, a larger share of the volume will come from smaller forest areas. In a small country with a long distance to market and increasing harvest volume, the challenges are clear, says Prof Visser.

“We need to improve, even though the challenges are getting harder,” he says.

Cable logging remains the mainstay of logging steep slopes and there are at least 318 operations working in New Zealand at the moment, according to his research. The most popular make and model is the Madill 124 (35 working in NZ) with the Madill 071 not far behind.

We’re working with bigger machines, he says, and these need more infrastructure.

With over 110 winch-assist systems working full time, NZ is a strong leader and remote control machines are not far away, says Prof Visser.

We’re also adopting more wheeled machines, which are lower impact than tracked and essentially, in terms of physical feasibility, “we’re in a really strong space”, he adds.

In terms of economic viability, the Forestry School’s benchmarking system shows the number of people relative to machines has halved in recent years which, Prof Visser says, shows “we’re making progress in terms of being more mechanised and there’s been a nice increase in productivity”.

But the average cable logging rate at the moment is still high at $39 per tonne.

“That’s quite a big number especially if we’re only getting about $100 per tonne in sales. And I’m regularly getting entries into the database that are over $60 per tonne,” he says, adding that high cost harvesting is very susceptible to low log prices.

Prof Visser says that’s down to how we operate on the landing more than extraction, and increased mechanisation is removing some of the

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higher risks.

“Mechanisation is great for the companies but hard work for the logging crews so it’s important to improve productivity as you absorb costs, otherwise logging rates will shoot out of control. It needs to be economically viable,” he says.

Social acceptability is now a major issue, says Prof Visser. Safety is critical, but so is the environment.

“We don’t like the term ‘low impact’ anymore because it implies there is an impact and a higher one,” he says.

“Low impact is really accumulating our knowledge in terms of best management practises and applying them to our harvesting systems. The phrase we like to use is Sustainable Forest Operations.

“It’s also about the wise utilisation of forest resources in terms of what we get from where we harvest. That’s encapsulated within our Resource Management Act.” So what’s more important, safety or the environment? “We’ve got lots of people. We’ve only got one environment. We have a legal and a moral obligation to look after each and every forest worker. We also have an obligation to look after the people in our society. Safety is one of our Number 1s. Environment is also one of our Number 1s,” says Prof Visser.

Roads also play an essential role, considering we build 1,600km every year. Though we are behind Europe, we’ve got a lot of technical knowledge and our road building standards in the forest are high, he adds.

We’re making progress in terms of stream crossings and getting across waterways while maintaining the integrity of our waterways and minimising sedimentation. Benchmarking against the US we’re at the same space.

“Just because something is compliant doesn’t mean that we are applying our best practises adequately, especially now with Google Earth creating more public interest,” he warns.

Another consideration is harvest residues, with each job generating 50-to-120 tonnes per hectare.

“How much are we going to turn into product? How much are we going to leave behind and if we leave it behind, where are we going to put it?

How does our choice of harvesting system affect residues? So those are some of the key challenges with regard to mobilisation risk,” Prof Visser points out. NZL

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Holding up a cultural mirror to safety FOURTH GENERATION FORESTRY WORKER and safety champion, Wiremu Edmonds, used the NZIF conference in Christchurch to call on the industry to recognise that what makes a difference is the Lore, rather than the Law. As Maori representative on the Forestry Industry Safety Council (FISC) he asks the question, if legislation and regulation are so strong, why are forestry workers still getting hurt?

With five forestry-related deaths this year so far, including one recently in Taranaki, Wiremu says: “We’re driving the regulations really hard, we’re driving systems hard, charters are created, councils are formed, there’s mechanisation, but we’re still hurting people. So what is it really about?”

He believes the answer lies in the fact that though law may be meaningful, it is rarely motivational.

“So while we have the law in place, the reality is, it doesn’t motivate people to change,” he says.

Lore, on the other hand, is at the heart of every culture. Safety is about balancing ethics, passed down orally through the generations, with regulations, he says. And just because lore is not always tangible or measurable, it doesn’t mean we should discount it, adds Wiremu.

“So maybe it’s time that we put down the microscope and pick up the mirror my brothers and sisters. And let’s really have a look at how we do things and who we are,

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Showing his ancestors, Wiremu Edmonds highlights the significance of our ancestors in cultural lore.

where we come from, where we’re going and what we are really about,” he says.

On a day-to-day level, it’s about having conversations and stories as our ancestors did, says Wiremu, relating to workers from their worldview and showing concern and protection at all levels. Language too is crucial, speaking to people in their language at least with a hello.

“We feel really special when someone upholds our protocols and reminds us who we are. That’s powerful,” he explains.

Speaking from a deeply personal point of view, having lost his own son in a logging incident in 2013, he goes on to say: “This is the reason why I do the things that I do. I don’t know too much about the law in terms of legislation, but I know what pain feels like and I know what hurt feels like and I know what it’s like to bury someone.

“I just wouldn’t want that for any other father, partner, mother, brother, sister.

That’s about as simple as it gets.

“The crew my son died in, they knew the law and because they knew the law they found every way to make their way around it – how to compromise the law, how to shift the law, how to move it, how to hide it, how to cover it. But if only the crew knew how to operate from a higher law by applying lore.”

He explains that this is about leaders and management allowing their workforce to share their stories of what’s important to them and having those important

conversations: “Because when I understand what matters to you, then I know how better to look after you.

“My brother, tell me, how old are your children, what’s important to you, what lies on your heart? They say what lies on a man’s heart, there will his treasure also be.

What is that?”

And that’s why safety extends to the home, families and psychological health too, he says, adding that although we all have our own identities, authenticity and looking for common values rather than difference goes a long way.

It comes down to leading, not according to what might look good on paper, but really taking the time to sit down and discuss concerns, says Wiremu: “It’s a crucial conversation. It’s the one you don’t want to have.”

He emphasises that this is not about disregarding the law, but rather letting law and lore walk hand-in-hand, sharing principles and values.

“I understand that you need money for a business to function, but I would love to see the day that we have a look at the structure and how we do things, being honest with ourselves and asking if we are really putting production before people. Is the structure fractured?” he asks.

Ultimately, he believes, one person can make a difference: “When you influence one, you have the ability to change a generation for a safer future.” NZL

Spotlight on young achievers THE NZIF’S PRINCE OF WALES AWARD, WHICH RECOGNISES THE achievements of outstanding young forest professionals, has gone to University of Canterbury graduate, Acacia Farmery.

After graduating, Acacia moved from the Forest Services, Research and Development team with Rayonier Matariki Forests to become the Establishment Forester in RMF’s Southland/Otago region. The Establishment Forester role involves planning and managing all of the forestry operations that occur post-harvest until crops are successfully established at around four years old.

Through this new role, Acacia has built on her experience to work in a large-scale operational setting. She has won a number of other awards, including the Maxwell Jacobs Prize for top student in FORE 307 – Plantation Silviculture and the New Zealand School of Forestry Schlich Memorial Prize for best all-round student in 4th year.

Acacia is a founding member of Future Foresters, which was set up to raise awareness outside the industry on the diverse and fulfilling career pathways that forestry offers.

She has also been involved in a number of educational and outreach programmes.

This award encourages engagement in and dedication to, the principles of sustainable forest management including policy, planning and practice, and sound science-based land stewardship.

The Australian winner, also announced at the joint dinner with the Australian Institute, was Leon Holt. NZL

The 2017 Prince of Wales award winner, Acacia Farmery, flanked by Geraint Richards (right), from the Duchy of Cornwall and David Evison, President of the NZIF.

Forestry pioneer wins top award DR JOHN WARDLE RECEIVED THE NZIF FORESTER OF THE YEAR award at the Annual Awards dinner at the NZIF conference, recognising his outstanding contribution to the industry.

“Forestry requires both a high level of intellectual rigour when dealing with the underlying science and philosophy of forest management, and the ability to solve the practical and managerial problems that come with managing forests in the field,” says NZIF President, David Evison.

“More than most, John possesses a combination of those intellectual and practical abilities, and it is that combination which makes him an outstanding forester.

“The Forester of the Year award is a fitting recognition of the contribution that Dr John Wardle has made to the sector over a large number of years.”

Dr Wardle’s earlier contribution to research included writing anauthoritative text on the New Zealand beech species and research into the effects of introduced wild animals on New Zealand’s native forests. More recently Dr Wardle, in partnership with his wife Rosalie, has developed and managed a forestry operation at their property, Woodside, in North Canterbury.

“They have pioneered innovative management of both indigenous and exotic forests for multiple uses including timber and honey production and conservation,” says Mr Evison.

The property is managed under an open space QEII covenant, which guarantees sustainable management into the future with emphasis on both education and research activities. The QEII covenant on Woodside is unusual, in that it provides for both conservation and sustainable timber harvesting.

The award recognises an Institute member who has made an outstanding contribution to either the forestry profession, or the forestry sector. It recognises leadership, excellence and personal

integrity, particularly where this demonstrates the character and strength of the forestry profession, and it is one of the highest accolades the Institute can bestow.

The Institute also celebrated the election of James Treadwell and Mike Marren as Fellows of the NZ Institute of Forestry. The election to this special membership status is granted by a vote of members and recognises outstanding contributions to the profession of forestry. NZL

Dr John Wardle is presented with the NZIF Forester of the Year award by David Evison, President of the NZIF.

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NZIF awards boost forestry research

Above left: Daniel Boczniewicz, a PhD student at the University of Canterbury School of Forestry, receives a $10,000 Future Forest Scholarship from Dr Andrew McEwen.

Above centre: Georgia Craig, a B.For.Sc student at the University of Canterbury School of Forestry, receives the $5,000 NZ Redwood Company Scholarship from Dr Andrew McEwen.

Above right: University of Canterbury’s Reihana Fisher receives the undergraduate award from Dr Andrew McEwen.

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“For this year’s allocation of funds, we had a good number of quality applicants, but we were disappointed there were no applicants for some awards,” says Dr Andrew McEwen, the Foundation’s chair.

Daniel Boczniewicz, a PhD student at the University of Canterbury School of Forestry, received a $10,000 Future Forest Scholarship for his research on modelling stem properties for Eucalyptus in New Zealand’s dryland environments.

The Chavasse Study Award of $3,500 was awarded to Bernadette Nanayakkara, a scientist at Scion working on wood formation physiology. Bernadette plans to use the award money to attend

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the International Union of Forest Research Institution’s conference, Forest Research and Cooperation for Sustainable Development in Brazil later this year.

Georgia Craig, who is in her fourth year of a B.For.Sc. (Hons) degree at the University of Canterbury School of Forestry, received the $5,000 NZ Redwood Company Scholarship. Georgia’s Honours project is looking at the effect of debarking logs on air quality emissions at export ports.

The Frank Hutchinson Postgraduate Scholarship of $1,000 went to Monique Hall, an M.Sc. student at the University of Waikato, who is studying restored urban forests. Reihana Fisher a 4th year Bachelor of Forestry Science (Hons) student at the School of Forestry at the University of Canterbury received the undergraduate award. His dissertation topic is looking at the benefits of pruning. NZL

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Wilting confidence crippling NZ wood manufacturers THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DO MORE TO HELP REVERSE declining confidence in the wood manufacturing sector, last month’s WoodTECH 2019 conference was told.

Jon Tanner, CEO of the Wood Processors & Manufacturers Association (WPMA), told delegates in Rotorua that confidence in manufacturing in New Zealand – especially those in the wood sector – has been declining for some time.

And the situation will continue to deteriorate unless the government steps in to help tilt the playing field back in our favour, he adds.

Dr Tanner says the scale of assistance provided by other countries to their wood processors is costing New Zealand exporters and has largely gone unrecognised by those in government or their officials for the past 30 years.

“They’ve ignored wood manufacturing and we need to reverse that trend,” he adds.

The biggest myth perpetrated in Wellington is that the free market is the same for everyone, but that is not the case.

Dr Tanner says that while New Zealand may be playing by the trade rule book, the rest of the world is not and trade barriers have been increasing, instead of reducing.

“Since 2009, four new trade barriers have been put in place for every one that has been removed,” he says.

“And since 2015, there has been a 30% increase in trade barriers – the sharpest increase since the WTO (World Trade Organisation) was established.”

Dr Tanner singled out China, Russia and Canada as major culprits in the trade barrier game and says New Zealand wood exporters are paying the price for their actions. He questions how China can afford to pay twice the price for Radiata Pine logs based on what Chinese processers charge for their wood products. Russia’s export tax on logs is clearly illegal under WTO

rules, he says. And mills in British Columbia get favourable treatment for purchasing logs that amounts to a subsidy.

“Then there are covert subsidies – you can’t see them but they are there,” he adds.

The WPMA also bristles at the suggestion that Kiwi companies need to be smarter to compete.

“Being smarter is not the answer when your competitors have a significant advantage over you,” says Dr Tanner.

He goes on to say that New Zealand wood manufacturers are among the most efficient and punch well above their weight when compared to other manufacturers in this country in terms of productivity. A recent study shows the productivity of wood processers to be “way above” the rest.

And we could be even better if we invested more in new technology but it is estimated that NZ wood processors and manufacturers are only spending 25% of what they should because they don’t have the confidence to make such investments, Dr Tanner claims.

“Even if we are at the top of our game, we still can’t compete at an international level,” he adds. “It’s like we are a rugby team made up of seven players and we’re going up against teams with 15.”

What’s the answer?

Dr Tanner says: “We could be more effective and more efficient with the right assistance from government.

“A good start would be to introduce accelerated depreciation on manufacturing plants, which would be a very positive incentive for our members to invest to become more competitive.”

Providing a long-term guaranteed supply of logs would also be invaluable, because mills are not going to spend money if they cannot be sure of being able to source wood in the future, which is not currently the case. Dr Tanner says it is vital that government and its officials get a real understanding of the issues besetting wood processors and manufacturers. NZL

A sawmill that thinks for itself…. and makes more money SAWMILL MACHINES THAT CAN ADJUST themselves to deliver better quality wood products and also warn operators of potential sawing issues are no longer a thing of the future – they’re already here, according to the world’s top mill equipment manufacturer, USNR. The Washington State-headquartered company has devised a closed loop monitoring control system tied directly to the optimisers installed on the production line that allows automated on-the-fly adjustment to be made to upstream machine stations while timber is being cut, as well as producing quality control reports.

USNR calls it the Self Adjusting Machine system, or SAM for short.

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designed to replace manual measurement of products for QC purposes, which is not only safer but also allows for improved trouble shooting.

It checks every part of the flitch as it passes through the system, not just at selected points, and if measurements are found to be outside target parameters, it can signal adjustments to machines upstream to instantly correct those issues. This saves timber wastage and increases the returns for the mill.

SAM can be used to fine tune target sizes to increase recovery and can also fine tune feed speeds to enable the mill to run at an optimal level.

Additionally, SAM monitors individual performance of saws and can warn of an early collapse, thus saving potential costly damage and downtime. It will also schedule saw changes when it detects

sharpening is required.

The automated QC system has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, says Mr Clay. He outlined two separate studies, one showing gains in target thickness on the primary saw line in a mill producing 500,000m³ a year, where just a 0.1mm (2%) improvement in value recovery amounted to $1.5 million; a similar exercise on an edger saw a 1mm (0.5%) improvement produce a value recovery gain of $112,000.

“This is free money,” he says. “It’s low hanging fruit that’s out there now to be grabbed.”

Mr Clay says SAM only works with USNR optimisers and the system is already installed at one sawmill in New Zealand (not identified, but presumably Red Stag), one in Australia and one in the US. NZL

Mixed Reality eases mill maintenance and repairs Mixed reality allows technicians to see holographic views of 3D images and information projected into their field of vision as they work on equipment.

FORGET VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY...THE new buzzword in technology is Mixed Reality and it could be coming to a sawmill or wood processing plant in New Zealand very soon.

Mixed Reality is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualisations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time – it’s a hybrid of what’s real and what is projected into the field of vision of someone wearing a set of high-tech goggles.

At the WoodTECH 2019 conference in Rotorua last month, delegates were told that Mixed Reality is already creating a “revolutionary shift” in some sectors and is already at the stage where it can be adopted by wood processors and manufacturers.

Martin Hooper, Managing Director (Asia Pacific) for technology company, Taqtile, says Mixed Reality is already being trialled by the New Zealand Defence Force to enhance maintenance on the Army’s new fleet of MAN transport vehicles.

Using a programme called Manifest, the wearer of a special set of goggles can see ‘virtutal’ instructions and diagrams that enable them to perform tasks for training purposes or where technicians are unfamiliar with procedures or require additional information. It can even project holographic 3D models of the machine or process they are working on, to make the task easier.

Mr Hooper says Manifest is being used by maintenance staff working for utility companies to perform step-by-step procedures. And he says sawmill and wood manufacturing staff can use the exact same technology in their work.

The advantages include being able to work hands-free, whilst still having all the information in front to assist the technician.

Instead of all the information being paper-based, it is now electronic and can be instantly updated.

Using this system Mr Hooper says the non-technical ‘interfaces’ seen by the wearer will lead to fewer errors made and he believes it will allow for a faster uptake of new technology. NZL

Timber stock-taking by autonomous drones A NEW ZEALAND COMPANY IS DEVELOPING autonomous drones that can fly around a sawmill warehouse and yard doing stocktakes without any guidance from humans.

This is the information management system of the very-near future, according to Tristan Rudden, UAV Systems Developer for Auckland-based TimberSmart.

He told the WoodTECH 2019 conference in Rotorua last month that his company is already well advanced with barcode recognition software that can be adapted to be used through the camera on a low-cost drone to feed into the mill’s logistics system.

At the moment, that technology would need to be flown by someone using a manual control for the drone. But Auckland University researchers are developing smart technology to enable the drone to fly itself around the warehouse and yard to record barcodes, without hitting anything.

Mr Rudden says the advantages of using drone-based stock-taking technology are numerous. They include: • Improved health & safety by removing

staff from hazardous areas • Prevent staff having to access high areas to reach barcodes on tall stacks • Stock can be stacked higher to better utilise space • Increased speed and efficiency in stocktaking using a fast drone • Improved auditing.

“We can use drones now to fly around the warehouse manually but the next evolution in stock-taking is autonomous flying,” says Mr Rudden.

There are challenges, he admits, such as being able to sense and avoid objects and the ability to recognise stacks with barcodes. But he says these barriers will be overcome soon and he believes autonomous stock-taking drones will be performing these tasks in the not-too-distant future.

In the meantime, Mr Rudden says that TimberSmart can carry out stock-taking duties using the drone on behalf of companies now using its own drones and it will even train mill staff to operate their own drones. NZL

TimberSmart’s Tristan Rudden demonstrates a drone equipped to read the timber stack barcodes.

Turn a sensor into a low-cost scanner

Internet of Things reaches into saw shop

SAWMILLS CAN SAVE THEMSELVES MONEY by employing more infrared sensors that do a similar job to costly, specialised scanners.

Infrared sensors are much cheaper and very robust, and they can be employed in a number of areas on the saw line, ScanMeg’s John Wilby told the WoodTECH” 2019 conference in Rotorua last month.

With various special features built into the photocell, they can be installed in very difficult applications, with Mr Wilby illustrating one that is positioned right in a twin band, close to the teeth, aimed at reducing the log gap.

Mr Wilby also highlighted how fitting an SIM module with analogue output can turn a photocell into a scanner to perform some tasks in the mill.

Using these relatively low-cost devices can help mill owners to employ technology cost-effectively to improve the performance of saw lines, lift value recovery and spot problems early. NZL

SAW DOCTORS CAN NOW SET UP AND OVERSEE SAWS BEING SHARPENED into the night while they monitor progress from the comfort of home.

The latest sharpening machinery comes with WiFi connectivity that enables them to be accessed through the internet by the saw doctor or a supervisor/manager at the mill.

It’s all part of the Internet of Things that is now touching our working environment as well as home lives, says Justin Williams, CEO of sawing equipment supplier Williams & White.

Mr Williams told the WoodTECH 2019 conference in Rotorua last month sensors that can be accessed via the internet have been fitted to mill sawing lines for a while, but the robotic saw shop has also become a reality and technology is helping technicians develop predictive maintenance programmes to reduce expensive failures and downtime.

That means the saw shop is now pro-actively tied to how the saw line is run. Sensors will tell saw doctors how saws are performing and when they need to be sharpened.

There are even sensors to monitor saw temperatures, which can be used to help reduce oil and water consumption in the cooling process, as well as providing information on the optimum speed at which to run the saw line.

Mr Williams says increased automation in the saw shop will also help mills overcome the personnel shortages affecting many operations. NZL

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With its long reach, the Hickford Logging John Deere 2656G can pick from the stacks and load a truck without moving.

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HERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT THE JOHN DEERE loader that went to work at Whanganui-based Hickford Logging last year that stood out.

It looked very different from the typical green machines that come across my desk to go into the New Iron pages.

Turns out it was the very first John Deere 2656G model into New Zealand with a rear entry cab. Plus, it appeared to have a very long boom and live heel-equipped arm – unusual for a skid-based loader.

Good Iron Test material.

It may have taken us a while to actually conduct the Iron Test, but the experience was worthwhile. Not only did we get to sample the Hickford machine, now with some 2,600 hours on the clock, but the timing of our trip also coincided with the recent arrival of one of the first John Deere 3756G processors in New Zealand. That machine was working just across the road with the CJ Newland Logging crew.

Two birds with one stone.

There was also a third reason for our visit. The export log price drop over the winter made life tough for contractors working in smaller forests and woodlots, with both Hickford and CJ Newland among those affected. Here was a good opportunity to see the effects first hand and find out how they are managing it.

We’ll look at Clint Newland’s machine and operation in the following article. First to Dave Hickford and his team, who had just shifted into the McNab Forest, recently purchased from the local council by Summit Forests and managed by Forest Management NZ. Dave has been hit with a double whammy in the past few months.

Just prior to the price drop, his Thunderbird 6255 destroyed its transmission and it took ages to get replacement parts from the US

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When the parts finally turned up it’s given him a second tranny, just in case it happens again.

Originally a ground-based operation when Dave started out on his own in 2013, it soon had to become a yarder crew as most of the forests around Whanganui have been planted on steep country.

“There wasn’t much ground base in the winter, so we leased haulers and eventually got my own,” says Dave.

“Had that yarder three years, the first one I’ve owned and it’s reputed to be the last one to come out of the Thunderbird factory.”

Until the transmission blew, the yarder had been very reliable.

When it was down, the crew was forced to ground base as much as possible to complete their work in the Maxwell Forest on the other side of Whanganui. But it was tough, with production numbers down big time. Then came the price drop, which coincided with the shift into McNab for a few months.

“We’ve been dropped down to six loads a day, down by around one-third,” says Dave.

“We’ve been through this before, but it’s not good when it’s happening. We need it to pick up. We’ve got two-and-a-half years over the road to do next.”

He’s hoping that the move to the next block will be accompanied by a lift in prices and harvesting numbers. It needs to, he’s got some big bills and outgoings to pay. In the meantime, he’s keeping things lean, watching all costs and working closely with the forest manager to keep it all together.

As well as pulling trees off the hills, Hickford Logging also does road lining in the drier months, which helps to boost the coffers, but

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The live heel is used more for racking slash off the skid than handling long stems.

that’s not an option at the moment.

Today, the focus is on the hills surrounding the landing, where the Thunderbird is set back at one end, dragging down the trees felled by hand to a small processing site next door and then a larger storage and load-out area at the opposite end.

The key to making it all work seamlessly is the relatively new John Deere 2656G loader, which provides the link between the yarding / processing on the upside and the fleeting / loading on the lower side.

It’s a big machine for those relatively straightforward tasks, with the cab reaching up to 5.18 metres from the ground on the substantial riser. And with that live heel it has a reach of 11.71 metres.

“I like purpose-built machines, especially for fleeting from the processor because they’ve got such a long reach and you don’t have to keep walking like you do with ordinary diggers with short arms,” says Dave.

“I wanted it on a big riser so you can get high and get above everything, especially for loading. Apart from the yarder, this is the only rear-entry machine I’ve got.

“It’s been good, heaps of power, you can sit there and lift a 5-axle trailer off and put it where you want. It’s the longest boom and arm you can get from the factory for this model. We also got the factory heel on it for cleaning up the landing in the morning when we’ve finished loading trucks, clearing the chute and stacking up stems

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when the processor is at the road-lining crew.

“It’s alright for shovelling, but with the sloping cab and the heel the arm doesn’t come in close to the cab so it’s limited when shovelling big stems in tight steep places – but on the skid you can’t touch it, it’s awesome. Fleeting, loading, clearing the chute, it does everything.”

It certainly stands out, especially as it’s the only green machine in a sea of mostly yellow – there are two Cat loaders, a brand new Cat 336 processor, a Tigercat 630 skidder and a D65 dozer also working in the crew, as well as a blue Kobelco digger used as a backline. One of those Cat loaders is the first machine he owned, when working for his old boss and it’s now done 21,000 hours.

“I did look at a Cat, but there was none in the country and Cam (sales specialist Cameron Wait) from CablePrice told me that this one was in the factory getting built and it was going to be the first one with a rear entry cab, so I put my hand up for it,” adds Dave.

When it arrived, Dave spent the first 1,000 hours in the operator’s seat, so he has a deep appreciation of how the new 2656G works.

It’s now entrusted to young Maddi Watkins, who joined the crew six years ago, straight out of school at age 15 and he’s loving it, while Dave “runs around after the boys, shovel some wood out of the road or move the T-bar backline”.

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Above left: The Big Duxson GX181 grapple has been equipped with larger rams for grabbing heavy logs.

Above right: One of the taller cabs in the bush allows the operator to look down on big stacks.

truck and trailer on the opposite side.

The soils around here are the typical Whanganui sandstone, which breaks up easily and turns to porridge in heavy rain. It can get very wet during winter and at the time of our Iron Test it was incredibly slushy, so the crew had laid plenty of corduroy to keep machines and trucks from sinking up to their sumps.

During a break in yarding for the backline to be re-positioned, I take the opportunity to get out of the mud and climb onto the big Deere to check out its vitals.

Access is up through a gap between the solid front-right guard panel/post reinforced with an extra side plate by Donaldson Mechanical (who also supplied the grapple) and main bodywork,

helped by handily-placed grabs to haul yourself up to the sidewalk, then skirting the boom and onto the stairway.

Maddi opens up the rear cab door to greet me. It’s pretty familiar, being the same as the Rosewarne Cable Logging John Deere 3156G processor that we tested a couple of years back. It has that same forward-leaning position too, pushing the operator out, closer to the action.

Boots off at the door (Maddi likes to keep the floor clean from mud) it’s a roomy workplace, with space for someone to stand behind the operator and a good walkway to get around into the seat.

The floor-to-ceiling windows all around provide one of the best views of a skid that you’ll get from any loader, even with the boom

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Above: Regular operator, Maddi Watkins, shows off the long reach.

Above right: No shortage of lifting power to handle heavy 5-axle trailers.

Right: Good protection for the big ram on the underside of the boom from any wayward logs.

masking it partly to the right.

“Good to have a cab this high, especially when loading because you can see everything on the truck and trailer,” says Maddi. “You don’t have to get up and look over. The height is the best thing about it, I reckon.”

And he enjoys the space inside the cab, compared to the conventional cab in the old Cat 324 he was previously operating.

“It’s good when I’m training anyone for loading – I’ll just stand behind them and give them pointers, like the young feller here, Jessie. We’re training him at the moment. I was actually trained in that old digger over there, the old Cat 324. I just got chucked right in the deep end. Dave said you do this and you do that and away you go – and I’ve been doing it ever since.”

Matty always wanted to be in forestry and did a bush course after school, adding: “On the course, a guy I went hunting with, his old man got onto Dave and rang me up one night and said Dave needs a new employee, he’ll be at your house at 6am and yeah, the rest is history.

“I love being out in the bush and working with the digger. Just love it. Started pulling rope behind the bulldozer and then did some cutting on the skid, then went to breaking out, and then into diggers.

“Been in this machine just over a year. I jumped on when it was bang on 1,000 hours. It’s a bloody good machine, man. Heaps of power, heaps of track power, climbs everywhere, just point and it just goes for it, good reach, so I can sit in the middle of the skid and

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reach all the grades, everything.

“I use that heel quite a bit. Quite good because you can heel trees out and the grapple doesn’t rip open and it doesn’t matter how big the tree is. Some really big P size, it lifts them pretty easy. I can grab two or three of them and just rip them around. Easy as. Great slew.

“Great outside lighting for early morning starts in the dark and I like the lighting inside the cab, too.”

When Maddi isn’t loading he goes fleeting or does a spot of QCing, going to the cut pile and laying out anything he thinks needs trimming for the boys on the saws to tackle, then re-stacks them. He also clears the chute occasionally, stacking the big tree length stems for the processor.

He likes the radio and the easy-to-use Bluetooth, but most importantly, he’s happy with the general layout of the controls and switches.

“Everything is set up nicely and you don’t have to turn around to reach anything,” he says. “Controls are next to you. Really user friendly.”

Maddi has to do a fair bit of travelling around the landing and says the speed is “surprisingly good for such a large machine with so much power”, topping out at 4.7 km/h in rabbit. It will still power up an incline at full speed on its 700mm double grousers shoes, thanks to the drawbar pull of 25,435 kg/f (56,075 lb/f ).

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but Maddi says he always runs it on high power, as “it’s a bit slow otherwise,” adding “I only run it on Eco if I’m low on fuel and we’re waiting for the tanker. It’s a lot quicker to keep it on high power.”

Fuel-wise, the 2656G doesn’t seem to mind being on full power all the time, taking just under three days to use most of the 800 litres in the tank (around 24 L/hour, Dave thinks). Maddi points out the fuel gauge sitting on three-quarters full and says: “I filled it up at 10 yesterday morning and it’s done an early shift and the needle has

only moved about a quarter.”

Back outside, the bonnet is lifted and side doors opened to give a look at the mechanical layout. Unlike the larger Rosewarne machine, which has a 9-litre engine, the 20-series models run the 6.8-litre version of John Deere’s 6-cylinder PowerTech. It’s a Tier 3 unit that delivers a handy 145kW (194hp) at a peak of 2,100 rpm. Plenty powerful for the two variable-displacement main pumps to push out 224 L/m through the hydraulics for good swing torque and lifting.

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With extra capacity in the large Duxson grapple, the Hickford Logging John Deere can load trucks quickly.

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Even with long and wide double grouser track, the crew still had to corduroy the landing to enable the loader and trucks to move across the surface.

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We’ll see how these work in a minute.

Access through the top to the engine is a bit restricted by the small size of the bonnet opening, but all the surrounding panels are bolt-ons so can be readily removed to widen it. Down on the ground there’s much better access to daily checks through the opening side panels, including a huge storage space in the cab riser.

The backline machine has finally been anchored to its new position and trees are arriving on the landing in fast order, so Maddi gets back to clearing the rapidly growing log pile.

Dave has called in a couple of trucks early today, so that we can test the loading abilities and the first has just arrived.

Maddi swings off the trailer with surprising ease and then calls our Iron Tester, Stan Barlow, up to the cab to do the loading, staying in behind the seat to answer any questions and give tips on getting the best out of the John Deere.

He’s positioned the truck and trailer nicely for Stan to be able to grab from the piles and just swing around to place the logs into the bunks, starting with the truck and then calling on the driver to drive forward so that the loader doesn’t need to move.

There are some nice big juicy logs, but the John Deere never flinches as Stan grab three, sometimes four, at a time to load the truck.

Dave mentions that when Jason Donaldson, whose Hamilton company builds the Duxson grapple sitting on the end of the arm came down to see it working, he was surprised by the size of the logs.

“When we were grabbing big logs the grapple was creeping open. He said those rams are too small for those logs, I’ll put bigger ones on – and that’s what he did. Can’t beat working with someone like that, who stands behind his grapples,” says Dave.

“They did make a difference. I was holding onto logs much more firmly. Previously they were trying to squirm out of the grapple. Not now. It’s bloody good.”

Stan isn’t having any trouble keeping them in the jaws of the Duxson GX181 – the largest model made by Donaldson Mechanical, which can open out to 1,800mm. In next to no time he loads up three packets on the TotalLog Mack T75, leaving a bit of time for some fleeting, before the next truck arrives.

Not much opportunity to try out the factory-made live heel, apart from nudging logs into place.

Another truck rolls in and the 5-axle trailer is again lifted off with ease, with no sign of any balance or stability issues, thanks to the long track frame and 5 tonnes of counterweight, and loading begins again.

Being able to grab so many large logs in one bite makes loading fast and stress-free. Just a shame that it cannot be used to its full potential until the production shackles come off. Even being used at full pace, we can’t see the John Deere 2656G wearing out any time soon, so it may last as long as Dave’s 21,000-hour Cat. When the time comes, would Dave replace it with the same machine? “Yes, I think I would,” he says.

“All depends on the time and the markets, I suppose.

Definitely can’t fault it. Heaps of lift power and it’s quite quick for a big machine.” NZL

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iron test: Stan Barlow

I’VE GOT THE POWER WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH BIG WOOD, like some of the meaty logs coming out of this forest, you need bags of power for lifting and slewing.

There’s no shortage of that with the Hickford Logging John Deere 2656G loader.

It’s one thing that really stands out.

And being matched to a great grapple like this upgraded Duxson GX181, you can be so much more productive in any loading situation. Shame these boys are having to throttle things back to keep within quota.

Great reach and excellent stability. When grabbing some of those big 5 metre A-grade logs I asked Maddi, the operator, ‘can it take this’ and he said ‘yes, you could even get another one in there’. Even lifting that 5-axle trailer, you only feel the weight in the early stages and then that power comes on and it does it so easily – definitely no shortage of power there.

Same with the track power – it’s very good. I tested it using the grapple, boom and arm at the same time, as well as slewing it around and it never missed a beat. And it

was really smooth, too.

Dave has all the controls working in the same pattern as his other diggers, which makes it easy when you swap between machines. The only thing I found different to what I’m used to was that the rotator on the right is more of a toggle, which is good because you can differ the flow to the rotator, making it faster or slower, rather than having a button that just gives you one speed. The other button is for the heel, which I didn’t really need to use.

Everything else is standard, with slew and dipper arm on the left, plus the horn on your trigger and on the right is open/close for the grapple and boom up/down. There’s also a power function on the trigger to give you a bit more boost if you have a heavy load to lift – but I didn’t need it at all, and I don’t know any situation where you would.

The camera was nicely positioned on the right-hand display. I used it a few times to check my counterweight spacing to the truck and the stacks – really handy, because you have got such a big tail and it’s hard to keep

Iron Tester, Stan Barlow. looking over your shoulder.

I’m a big fan of rear-entry cabs. So easy to access and it’s nice to have the space for someone standing behind the seat for training. The seat itself is very comfortable, although the seatbelt wasn’t easy to adjust and it tends to ride off your shoulders. That’s about the only criticism.

Visibility is excellent apart from the usual blind spot from the boom, but you can’t get away from that on a digger.

All up, it’s a very powerful, stand-out machine. NZL

1: R & L log truck driver, Ron Poinga, retrieves the loading docket from a line dangled through the trapdoor in the floor of the cab.

2: John Deere operator, Maddi Watkins, at home in the spacious cab – note window in the side of the floor, as well as one between the front screen and levers, so Maddi can watch the tracks.

3: Can’t beat a rear-entry cab for ease of egress, reckons Maddi Watkins. Just make be sure to remove your muddy boots.

4: Stairway to the top.

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SPECIFICATIONS - JOHN DEERE 2656G PROCESSOR ENGINE 6-cylinder, 6.8-litre, John Deere PowerTech Plus 6.8 common rail diesel, Tier III, turbocharged & after-cooled Bore / stroke 106mm x 127mm Net power 145kW (194hp) at 2,100 rpm Torque n/a Max travel speed 4.7km/h HYDRAULICS Main pumps Max flow Swing speed Swing torque

2 variable displacement piston type 224L/min x 2 10.6rpm 107 869Nm (79,560 lb/ft)

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Duxson GX181 1,800mm

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DIMENSIONS (MM) Overall length Width Height to top of cab Shipping height (cab folded) Ground clearance Tail swing radius Track length Track shoe width Operating weight

14,250 3,530 5,180 3,760 760 3,150 5,030 700 36,094kg (base machine)

Left top: The bonnet lid is small but the panels either side can be unbolted for better access to the engine.

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Below: Hickford Logging owner, Dave Hickford.

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Some ugly wood coming to the processing site as part of the clean up of this woodlot just behind Lismore Forest, near Whanganui.

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But that’s not where we’re going to find the subject of our second Iron Test.

Skirting around the back of Lismore, Clint Newland leads us to a private woodlot in his outrageously pimped Ford F250 ute, complete with twin exhaust stacks running up behind the cab, looking just like a scale-model log truck. The shiny pipes emit a rumbling sound like a V8 on steroids. It’s actually a diesel V8, not petrol.

Arriving at the skid site created by the CJ Newland Logging crew, we find the other John Deere that brought us down to the Manawatu – a freshly minted 3756G, several sizes and power options up from the 2656G loader we’d just sampled. It’s the second side-entry model to go to work in New Zealand. The other is in Southland.

It’s only a few weeks old and still working through the ‘running in’ period. But don’t let that fool you, this machine looks to be powering through the stems dragged down from the surrounding hills by the crew’s skidder, even though it’s dialled back a notch.

The wood is a real mixture. Some nice meaty trees that will turn out valuable logs, along with some skinny stuff that will even struggle to attract the attention of a pulp mill.

“The trees in this part haven’t been thinned or pruned, they’re pretty scrappy,” says Clint. “We’re just clearing it up and hopefully

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tomorrow is our last day in here.

“Where we go from here? Your guess is as good as mine. I was talking to Marcus (Musson, forest manager with Forest360, formerly FOMS) last night and he said they should have something signed up for us by the end of the day, hopefully.”

That’s the ‘joy’ of working in woodlots and small forest plantations.

Sometimes you really don’t know where your next meal ticket is coming from. And at the time of writing, those meal tickets are getting scarce for some crews, as the mid-year price drop prompts woodlot and small forest owners to delay harvesting until things settle down and, hopefully, prices rise. Plenty of hope, not a lot of certainty.

The only thing that is certain for Clint and his team is the job immediately in front of them and making sure they get as much out of these last scraps as they possibly can before vacating this site.

It’s not the best use of a new and expensive piece of kit like the John Deere 3756G and Waratah 626 Bigwood. This is a machine that needs many hundreds of tonnes of wood arriving on the skid every day to feed its generous appetite.

“When we first started in here, the market was good and we were cranking the loads out – we were doing up to 15 loads a day and I was having to stop it because we didn’t have anywhere to store the extra wood it was producing,” says Clint.

“We are doing 8 loads now. Is it hurting? Big time, but you can’t really do too much about it because that’s the way the market is. At

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Even stretched out this far with a large head and heavy stem in its jaws, the John Deere 3756G is rock steady.

least we are still working. At the end of the day it is what it is, and we just have to hold on until it bounces back again.”

Clint speaks with the experience of someone who has been in this situation before, like many of his woodlot/small forest harvesting colleagues around the country. It’s a bit like being a sportsman, experiencing the lows of defeat, as well as the highs of victory. He knows something about that, too.

Some of you may recognise the big fella’s name from his professional rugby playing days as a barn-storming forward with the Highlanders (3 seasons) and Hawkes Bay Magpies (12 seasons) and being selected for and playing with the Maori All Blacks. Then a short stint overseas with Irish side, Leinster, followed by Currie Cup footy in South Africa before he called time on his rugby playing career in 2012, returning to New Zealand and a job in the forests.

Clint was actually into forestry before his rugby career took off, starting with Brightwell Logging in Hawkes Bay after shepherding for a while.

His reintroduction to the industry came just as the market picked up following the GFC, with demand from China driving the growth.

Clint worked with Robbie and Clayton Hagen (Logged on Logging) for almost five years, eventually buying out the crew he was running.

He was already the owner of the crew’s feller buncher and a loader, which were contracted back to Clayton.

“Then I bought the processor and skidder off him and that’s how I got going,” adds Clint. “I am fortunate to have a good bunch of guys with great work ethics working for me. It makes things a hell of a lot easier.”

Moving down to Whanganui, the CJ Newland crew has managed to earn a good living from being a specialist ground base crew, even though the area has a lot of steep forestry.

“Always been ground basing, don’t want to get into hauling – I

used to see the bills coming in for the hauler when I worked for Clayton. No thanks,” says Clint of the prospect of owning a swing yarder or tower himself. But the day may eventually come.

“It would be good to stay ground based. But the way the council is going with these new tracking rules and regulations it is getting harder and harder.”

To help tackle steeper terrain, CJ Newland employs a tilting John Deere 959 harvester, which Clint himself operates. He’s able to push the machine onto some of the mid-to-higher slopes and shovel down to the Tigercat skidder that wouldn’t have been possible with a nontilting harvester. To go any further would mean putting the 959 on a tether and he’s wary of that, too.

“Not sure about a winch-assist. We like to keep it simple,” he says. “If it’s too steep we’ll cut the trees that we can’t reach with a machine by hand.”

Looking up to the slope right above this skid site, Clint points to a grove of pines that will need to be manually felled before they leave this location because they are beyond the reach of his 959.

And the most experienced faller in the crew is his older brother, Brad Newland, who also happens to be the operator of the new processor.

It was actually Brad that got Clint into forestry in the first place and then the younger Newland repaid the favour by putting him into the processor seat.

“Yeah, I got him into the bush,” smiles Brad after he shuts down the new 3756G and joins us on the ground. “I was into logging pretty much straight out of school and got him a job with our crew.”

Clint chimes in: “Brad was a cross-cutter years ago and then he went onto falling machines. When we converted to mechanical processing I was in charge of Clayton’s crew and I was after a processor driver. Brad was over in Australia in the mines at that stage and I convinced him to pack up his family and come back to

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Left: Clint Newland and his brother, Brad, prefer the lower cab for their processor as it often travels out to the cutover to help with falling.

Above: Big tail swing radius means the operator needs to be wary of what is behind the machine.

start on processing for us.

“He was a Cat man through and through, everything had Cat stickers on and now he’s having to convert it all to John Deere.”

To make the transition easier for Brad, all the controls in the new machine are set to a Cat pattern, so it feels more like his old one.

The new processor could easily have been another Cat, as they brought the 336 with them into the CJ Newland crew when they moved into this area and it was only replaced because it was getting up in hours.

“That was, and still is, a good base – traded it in on that one,” motions Clint towards the 3756G, adding that he did seriously consider a new yellow machine as the replacement.

“I was just trying to get away from the AdBlue and all that other stuff with Tier 4 machines. Going with John Deere, they still run Tier 3 engines and we’ve got the 959 down there that we’ve had a good run with – it’s about 12 months old. The places it will go is unreal, eh.”

The next decision was about which green machine suited the processing work ahead of them, and it all came down to what they’d been harvesting in the last couple of years.

Clint continues: “We’ve been in old croppers, nice prune and all sorts. You just can’t beat big horsepower in big trees. Just saves smashing the crap out of something smaller.

“Before the 959 we had a 909 and just the hydraulic power and the slew power in them is phenomenal and hard to beat. That’s what you get with purpose-built machinery. We wanted something like that in a processor.

“When I talked to Cables they told me about this 3756G – the first one had already gone down to Southland – and I liked the specs.

“Things like the power and the reach – I think it’s around 12-to13 metres (it’s actually 11.63 metres, but that is still good for a processor) – and just how stable it is. With that big head and the big

logs at full stretch, sideways on the tracks and it still doesn’t rock.

Just sits there.

“I quite like the low cabs because it goes out on the hills to do a bit of falling and those tall ones, when you are out on the hills and you are shovelling, it takes some getting used to.”

The 3756G is the biggest model in the John Deere 30-series swingers – in dimensions, power and weight, tipping the scales at 48 tonnes straight out of the factory.

The John Deere PowerTech Plus 9.0L engine in the 3756G processor is from the same 6-cylinder, 9-litre family that runs in the CJ Newland 959M harvester, but there is a difference in peak power output.

The processor tops out at 202kW (271hp) at 1,900rpm, while their harvester makes 230kW (308hp) at 2,000rpm. The harvester has bigger hydraulic pumps, but you have to remember that it’s doing more things than the processor – falling and trimming, swinging, lifting, travelling and tilting, which require more grunt when used together. Most of the power in the processor is used to slew and drive the head. It rarely has to travel at the same time.

Brad is very happy with the power output, saying: “It’s still in the break-in period so I have it dialled back a bit. Once it’s done its time, I’ll wind her up to see what it can do. It’s got everything we need for now.

“Lots of power for the slew and lift, it’s got the twin slews as well whereas the Cat just had one big one. We need it with this big boom – it’s given me another two metres of reach and I use all of it.

“Got the hydraulic oil cooler too, which came standard with this.

You would have thought it wouldn’t need it when you look at the size of the radiator and cooling on this. It’s huge.”

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he can vary the delivery of power through the computer.

Having studied the brochure on this machine before undertaking the Iron Test, we notice a big change in the rear structure behind the low-slung cab and Clint confirms they did a major rebuild of the purpose-built bonnet.

“We designed a whole separate guarding package for it,” he says.

“ProSteel did that for us up in Hamilton. Did an awesome job on it. These do come in already guarded, but not with the sort of bonnet we wanted. This one opens right up so you can get better access and we put more steel into the front corner, into the base plate.”

Now, instead of a small hatch that pops up above the engine, the whole rear cover lifts on a pair of big rams. There is still an upper catwalk grille around the engine for added protection, but overall access has improved. The big hydraulically

The Newland boys have held onto their old Waratah 626 Bigwood to process logs on their new John Deere.

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opening right-hand side panel has also been extended further forward to meet the chunky corner post for further protection.

When closed, it covers the stairway up to the top of the machine. In addition to gaining access to the stairway, this panel also needs to be lowered to get to all the filters and daily checks.

Clint is right, ProSteel did a bloody good job. Visually, the overall effect is excellent and it’s hard to believe that it didn’t come out of the John Deere factory. With the additional metal, overall weight has risen above 50 tonnes for the base machine.

Over on the cool side of the engine compartment, the existing opening barn doors that provide access to the radiator haven’t been touched.

While up here, Clint points out the camera sitting next to one of the LED lights on the right/rear portion of the roof – it’s in addition to a rear-view camera in the tail and gives the operator a rear threequarter view rarely seen on machines with so much metal obscuring line of sight. A really good idea.

And so are the extra ribs of steel that have been welded along the top edges of the boom, further strengthening it, as well as providing added protection for the hydraulic lines running up the back.

Returning to the ground and walking to the other side, we’re surprised at just how easy it is to gain entry into the cab on such a large machine. There’s obviously no riser to climb, making it lower than on most forest machines, and it really does make a difference, being much closer to the ground.

Another surprise is just how big this simple cab is, until we realise it’s the exact same unit as fitted to the loader we visited earlier in the day – just without the rear-entry door. The extra length in the cab enables the side door to be wider, which further assists entry and exit. And the space behind the cab provides much appreciated additional storage. And being extra wide, because it still has the walk space on the left, it feels exceptionally roomy. Iron Tester Stan Barlow will fill you in on the controls and ergonomic details in his column on page 52.

The decision not to put the cab on a big riser is an interesting one, given the trend towards tall processors, as you’d assume it would

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reduce operator vision of the skid. But there is a reason for keeping it low.

Clint says: “On some of our blocks it can go from dead flat to steep and on the flat stuff the processor can go out there and cut some wood while the tilter is doing all the steep slope stuff – it does quite a bit. You wouldn’t want to be in a high cab doing that.”

The undercarriage is not as high either, Clint concedes.

“The counterweight is quite low compared to the Cat and every now and then it will scrape the ground. Brad has to watch where he’s working.”

But the Newland boys keep coming back to the main reason they’ve got this machine; Power.

“On the big logs and that, the slew power is unreal. It’s got power to burn, really,” says Clint.

Interestingly, they decided to retain the Waratah 626 Bigwood that was on the old processor, rather than invest in a new one.

Clint explains why: “I only upgraded to it at the end of last year – it was a rebuilt one from Australia and the company that originally had it, they bought two at the same time a few years ago so they could use this one for any spare parts because of where they were. So it hasn’t been used that much.

“I did ask Brad if he wanted a new head and he said he was happy with this one. It’s one of the older Series 1 models, so it doesn’t have the 625 fast valve bank or 360-degree rotation. But it’s fast enough.”

Brad agrees: “I had already got used to this head from the old machine. It’s fast enough for me and has plenty of power – probably runs a little bit better with this new machine, feels a bit more responsive. There’s something like 15% more power in this machine over the old Cat.” There’s no optimisation system on this 626 either, but Brad says he’s an old-school logger and prefers to do the log making decisions himself.

As they approach the end of this job, the number of cuts has reduced in line with the lower quality of trees being harvested.

“We are cleaning up the last of the wood in here, just down to A’s, U1’s, pulp and that’s about it,” says Clint.

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Above left: It’s the same cab as the rear-entry models, which allows for a big, wide side door like this. Note the extra guarding over the front screen.

Above centre: The new guarding package installed by ProSteel includes a larger, hydraulically lifted bonnet.

Above right: The extended opening side panel and new bonnet provide great access (and protection) to the John Deere’s vital parts.

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Twin pumps provide good slew power for the John Deere 3756G.

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But there’s still enough of the bigger stems to enable our Iron Tester, Stan Barlow, to get a feel for the potential of this machine.

After a quick briefing from Brad, he saddles up and drags in the first of the big stems just deposited by the skidder.

The long reach means he doesn’t have to shift position to deposit the cut logs in the allotted stacks until he’s completed this pile before driving a short distance to retrieve the next stems. The reach is about half metre longer than the Rosewarne Cable Logging 3156G we tested two years ago.

I ask Brad if the travel speed is up to his expectations, since larger machines usually walk slower than their smaller counterparts, but he says it is quick enough for him. It will hit 4.5km/h top speed in rabbit or 3.1km/h in turtle, which is faster than some of the smaller models. What is impressive, he adds, is how it powers across broken ground and up

gradients without hesitation, thanks to the 36,102 kg/f (79,590 lb/ ft) tractive effort. Ground clearance, however, is 50mm lower than the smaller Rosewarne machine, due the difference in track base.

Stan is making good use of the two slew pumps with the larger stems in this new pile, some weighing close to 4 tonnes, yet no match for the 120,000 Nm (88,507 lb/ft) of swing torque. No issues with the lifting either, with those twin rams on the boom.

And sitting on a lengthy 5.46 metre track frame, the 3756G is well planted and doesn’t appear to rock around very much. There is a 1,080-litre fuel tank positioned close to the rear, in addition to the 7,975kg counterweight, so it has plenty of balancing weight when Brad has to lift old croppers.

Brad says it is consuming around 31.5 L/h at present and he expects that to improve as the engine beds in.

What it really needs is an extended period of work in a good quality forest.

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Lots of guarding around the front of the new John Deere 3756G to protect from wayward stems.

Unfortunately, when this job ended a couple of days later, it had to be parked up for a week along with the rest of the machines because the next job that Clint was hopeful of getting was put back. However, Marcus Musson did find them an interim block on a sand base near the coast to tide them over.

When I spoke to Clint, he was just about to take over from Brad in the John Deere 3756G cab to work it through the night.

“We’ve got 26 hectares and it’s all got to be done within four weeks so we can start the next job, so we’re working around the clock at the moment,” says Clint.

Just what this machine – and the CJ Newland crew – needed. NZL

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iron test: Stan Barlow THE LOW DOWN ON PROCESSING I’VE BEEN SO USED TO SEEING BIG, TALL processing machines on the skid, it comes as a bit of a surprise to see one with the cab as low as Newland’s John Deere 3756G. Nothing wrong with that. It’s just different.

Mind you, going back a decade or so, you never saw a processor with a tall cab and they were all like this. Sure, a high-rise cab is nice to have for visibility but do you really need it? For what this machine is doing, it’s fine. You just have to plan around it and be aware of what you can and cannot see.

I never had any problems with vision on this site and the fact it also had a second camera facing the three-quarter rear, as well as the one on the tail, gives you the all-round vision you need on a busy skid.

What made it even better was the fact it was the same size cab as the rear-entry one I’d tested across the road with the Hickford crew. There’s enough room for someone to sit on the shelf behind the seat for training, I’m sure. And the elbow space from the extra width makes it feel much roomier.

Having standard Cat-style controls made it easy for me to remember where everything is and I was happy there were only three grades to cut. Remembering which buttons to press – all on the right joystick – was a breeze. Brad cancelled out a lot of the grades they normally cut because they weren’t necessary for this last part of the job. Being an old school logger, I wasn’t worried about making log decisions myself, without an optimiser.

The only issue I had was remembering this was an older Bigwood and there was no full rotation for the head. You get an instant reminder when it hits the stopper, but I soon got on top of that.

The other thing is that Brad and Clint are such big boys, they have the seat right back and I forgot to adjust it before starting up and I couldn’t reach the pedals, so had to power down and move it forward. At least I know there’s plenty of legroom for all sizes.

I didn’t seem to have the issue with the seat belts like on the Hickford machine, so that must have been a one-off.

Iron Tester, Stan Barlow.

A stand-out feature for me is the amount of power available for processing, slewing and lifting. Whatever I asked of it, the JD did. There were some big gnarly old trees in the pile Brad left me and while I noticed the weight when they were in the head, it had no problem lifting. Two rams really help.

Doing multiple functions, it never dropped off at all and I was surprised to learn it was actually dialled down. Like Brad, I would love to try it with power fully up. There was no touchiness on the

1: To gain access to the stairway up to the engine, the side opening panel now has to be dropped. There’s extra guarding in the floor and that box conceals the oil cooler.

2: Good access to the John Deere PowerTech engine – more if the top panels are unbolted.

3: Additional steel strips were welded to the outer top edges of the boom.

4: The wider, longer cab is very spacious.

5: This u-shaped housing contains a camera showing the rear three-quarters of the machine, as well as powerful LED lights.

6: The Newland brothers, processor operator, Brad, on the left and crew owner, Clint, on the right.

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SPECIFICATIONS - JOHN DEERE 3756G PROCESSOR ENGINE 6-cylinder, 9-litre, John Deere PSS 9.0L common rail diesel, Tier III, turbocharged & after-cooled Bore / stroke 118.4mm x 136mm Net power 202kW (271hp) at 1,900rpm Torque n/a Max travel speed 4.5km/h HYDRAULICS Main pumps Max flow Swing speed

John Deere 11.63m

PROCESSOR Make Cutting capacity Max de-limber diameter

4,750kg ¾” pitch, 38” bar

REFILL CAPACITIES (LITRES) Fuel tank Coolant Engine oil Hydraulic tank

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controls. It felt positive, without being too sensitive. Very natural.

Very stable, too, even when stretching out. And walking out over rough ground never bothered it and that’s when you appreciate the low cab because you aren’t rocking around as much.

Clearance between the machine and tracks is minimal, so you need to be aware of anything being picked up in the tracks, but I liked the big opening bonnet and extra guarding. It’s a really likable machine. NZL

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Prue Younger, CEO Message It is an ongoing debate about drugs in the workplace, the mis-use and the testing regimes used but clearly the forestry industry takes a rap again with most public thinking we are rife with drug users. Well I heard the other day that the forestry industry is probably one of the most disciplined industries for drug testing. It states clearly in the ACOP 2.3.2 no person shall work at or visit a forest operation while impaired by drugs and/or alcohol but this guide was published in 2012. The NZFOA Plantation Forestry Code of Practice emphasises the elimination of drugs & alcohol from the workplace as people affected by alcohol and other drugs pose a threat to health, safety and performance. In recognition of this, in 2000 FOA developed a Drug & Alcohol Toolkit which has been used by many companies with considerable success. In 2008, as part of a campaign to ensure that drug and alcohol abusers are not permitted to compromise the health and safety of their co-workers and themselves, a Code of Practice was produced for use by all forest owners and industry employers and revised in 2015. I go out to industry and question where are we today, how have we managed the issue of drugs in our forests and what more can we do?

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Patrick Caroll – Blinkhorne & Carroll Ltd (Silviculture Contractor) About 25 years ago we started to do drug testing and identified there was a significant correlation with positive tests and near misses and so for the health and safety of the crews it was paramount to knock it out.

We have a very strict zero tolerance to all drugs, including alcohol which means we don’t even tolerate drinking after hours if you are coming to work the next day. We have drug test kits on hand or urine sampling and even this is a visual deterrent. This is used as a basic check and if nonnegative, we get a certified tester to take the next sample. We have a total of 52 employees and many are Fijian with an awesome work ethic and respect that drugs are not tolerated. Any referrals from WINZ are tested as they know our “Drug Free” culture is a critical employment obligation of ours. Arguably there are foreseen benefits of legalising marijuana but it will make users immediately unemployable in our crews. The rationale where an employer tests just the driver in his crew and not the full crew on the assumption that they would lose their workforce is just crazy and has to change to make our industry professional and safe.

Peter Weblin - Chief Operating Officer, P F Olsen A huge challenge for our industry is that too many mothers and fathers of young New Zealanders see forestry as “Dirty, Druggy and Dangerous”. If that is the case, why would you steer your young one towards a career in forestry? The reason is that the public perception is not keeping up with the reality and the positive direction our industry is moving in. PF Olsen first embarked on a Drug & Alcohol reduction programme about eight years ago and we have seen a steady trend of material improvement. Positive drug tests (actually called non-negative tests – just to be technical!) have dropped from around 16% to the current levels of around 3%. We are also seeing most wood councils, industry associations and individual contractors fully on board with active programmes that are effectively reducing drug impairment and improving safety outcomes in our workplace. When the word finally gets out to families in Aotearoa, mums and dads will start encouraging their kids to give forestry a go and we will start to see the much-needed young talent emerge into an industry with huge potential and an exciting future.

Fiona Ewing - National Safety Director, FISC

There is no place for alcohol or other drugs in a high-risk industry like forestry. The sector has robust policies and processes for the management of risks from alcohol and other drugs. I purposely put alcohol ‘up front’ because this legal substance is known to cause more harm to individuals and their families than other drugs; just ask anyone that works in an emergency department! Attitudes and behaviours have changed and we see more positive test results when someone has been asked to take a reasonable cause test rather than relying on random tests ‘picking someone up’. The industry is maturing and people are prepared to speak up when they have concerns that someone working alongside them isn’t ‘fit for work’. I’d also encourage the sector to continue the focus

on mental health – what’s happening with / to our people that they have to self-medicate with alcohol or drugs?

Chris Wise - Havendale Logging, Masterton

Like other regions, the Southern North Island has got a reputation for heavy use of drugs but if we can counter that with the influence of being a professional in the forestry sector here and adjust attitudes then we offer an environment where that can change. It does have to start at the top and being a mentor around that professional vision is important, at contractor and forest owner level. We have a strong “family first” mentality and you come to work to support your family, get home safely to the family and family comes first in our crews. The importance of the drug & alcohol register that the region runs independently should provide a focus on our industry blacklist regarding offenders and the register should counter any offender moving from crew to crew. In the region there is plenty of opportunity for rehabilitation, certainly there to give users a helping hand and a second chance. In a market downturn, when jobs are scarce, there will be less drug abuse happening but subsequently abuse seems to rise when there is a workforce demand and people are scarce.

Drug registers need to be used more proactively and I believe contractors would welcome that information being available and shared across the regions.

Wayne Dempster - H&S Manager, Rayonier Matariki Forests

Quite simply there is no place for drug or alcohol impairment in the forest industry. Because of the nature of forestry work we all need to remain constantly sharp, manage the risks we can control and adapt quickly to change. Having a workforce that is free from the effects of D&A is a big part of being able to achieve this and continue the significant harm reduction improvements that have been made in the 6 or 7 years.

At RMF we’ve taken a partnership approach to managing D&A impairment. Back in 2009 we established policies and procedures based on the Industry Code. Our expectation was that all businesses that operated inside the forest gate would develop similar policies. When we started out I recall our failure rate was in the order of 13% – one in 8 workers. Over the last 10 years our policy has evolved to meet business and changes in standards. We’ve worked closely with our contractors and in 2017 invested in an umbrella testing programme. So while each contractor is still testing to meet their business needs, RMF commenced an overarching programme of testing where all crews have their name go in the hat and one is drawn every week from across the country.

Everyone at that crew is then tested that week by our testing provider TDDA. We alternate between urine and oral fluid testing and alcohol breathalyser is applied when testing is done before noon.

Today the failure rate is around 4% – one in 25. We believe this, to a large extent, is due to the culture developed in these businesses. There is no tolerance for drug users as there is just too much at stake.

As an industr y and company we have a moral, social and legal obligation to ensure exposure to the things that can cause harm are eliminated or managed to an acceptably low risk.

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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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Our ongoing thanks to Rayonier/ Matariki Forests, Wenita Forest Products, Port Blakely, Crown Forestry, Brand Logging, CMH Logging,

Matt Baldwin, of Brand 101, was first in Mechanised Felling / Processing in the 2019 period 2 results.

Sam Abel, of Brand 101, was third in Mechanised Felling / Processing in the 2019 period 2 results.

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A good example of this is breaking out.

Crews can be anything from 100% manual breaking out through to a mix of mechanised and manual breaking out or only use manual breaking out for particular sites.

Same process, different mix, right?

On the face of it, yes but what steps do you take when your breaker outs haven’t been on the hill for a few days or weeks, or if they have been there full time, how do you manage complacency?

Our Top Spot assessors see these challenges on a regular basis and, to us, there are some lessons to be learnt around how we manage staff going into the break out function to ensure their heads are in the right place, they don’t take unnecessary risks and that the break out plans and safe retreat distances are accurate and appropriate for the current site.

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SUMITOMO FOR LAHAR Lahar Logging has taken delivery of a replacement Sumitomo SH240TLFS to tackle the mighty Waimarino Forest. This new machine replaces an older SH240TLFS and was an easy decision to replace like-for-like. Pictured are the Lahar crew, including owner, Smiler Katene. The machine was sold by Mardi Pritchard, of AB Equipment.

KOMATSU & SOUTHSTAR FOR PARENGARENGA Parengarenga Incorporation has taken delivery of a new Komatsu XT 430-3, which is working in thinning operations in and around Te Kao. The new XT 430-3 has been fitted with a SouthStar QS450 harvesting head by Tinus, along with Dean and the team at SouthStar. Daniel Henderson ‘jun’ (operator) is “very happy with this set up, it is ideal for the wood we are working in". Pictured are Tinus Barnard (Komatsu Forest NZ), Chris Dowzall (SouthStar), Dan Henderson ‘sen’, John Kosar (Komatsu Forest NZ), Arron Marshall (Komatsu NZ) and Justin Morgan (Partridge Heavy Haulage). Photo: Mark Chisnal (Komatsu NZ).

JOHN DEERE FOR SHARPLES Rangiora-based Sharples Logging has taken delivery of a new John Deere 848L-II grapple skidder, which is spec’d with 35.5 tyres, dual function grapple and 6000-series winch. The new 848L-II replaces an 848H.

CAT FOR STORCON & SATCO TIGERCAT & WOODSMAN PRO FOR STEWART Grant and Loryn, owners of Stewart logging, have taken delivery of a new Tigercat 890 to carry out processing duties for their hauler operation, based in Gisborne. The 890 has a Woodsman Pro 850 fitted and operator Alyse (Grant and Loryn’s daughter) loves the power, speed, balance and vision of the big Tigercat. Delivered

by Ben Kendrick, of AB Equipment Gisborne and the team from Woodsman Pro. 58 NZ LOGGER | October 2019

Storcon has acquired a new Cat 558 Forest Machine, which is running a SATCO 3L2T processing head. The purpose-built Cat is required as Storcon is branching out from civil works into forestry, with a private block on the West Coast of the South Island.

Owner/operator, James Storer, is very impressed with durability, performance and fuel efficiency running the machine in Eco mode.

Antony Robinson from Gough Cat sold the machine.

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Dave Button, of Button Logging in Canterbury, has taken delivery of his first new Sumitomo SH240TLFS forestry machine. The new Sumitomo has been constructed especially for the role with a purpose-built forest cab and guarding package straight out of the factory. Dave modified the end of the arm so he could use a fixed head grapple, which has worked well. Operator, Jordan (aka Tiny), is very happy with the traction force and overall power of the new Sumitomo, which was sold by Steve Varcoe, of AB equipment.

When Gisborne-based Kimberly Contracting went looking for a felling machine the performance of the TimberPro was too good to ignore. Operator, Johnny Dewes, is impressed with the machine’s power in the track drives, along with the 185,285Nm of slew power on hand to shovel the big East Coast stems.

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Ed and Tova, from Western Bay Harvesting, have taken delivery of a new Cat 538, which is fleeting and loading in the Maramarua Forest. The machine was sold by Mark Costello, from Gough Cat.

Mold Logging, based in Kaitaia, has taken delivery of a new Madill 2850C. Seen here working in Omanaia, Northland, the Madill 2850C is fitted with a Duxson grapple. Owner, Tim, has been keen to get the 2850C working with his crew, joining a Madill 124 swing yarder in the same operation. Porter Equipment North Auckland & Northland Territory Manager, Paul Gorrie, made the sale.

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Pete and Debbie Stephens have taken delivery of a new Komatsu PC220LC fitted with a CDL grapple for their crew working near Tokoroa. The machine, which was guarded by EMS in Rotorua, has plenty of power to shift the cream, the crew reckon. Delivered by Paul Roche and the team at Komatsu Forest.

Peter, from Forweda Land Clearing, is seen here unloading another Hyundai to add to his ground base operation. Pete is over the moon with the lift and speed of the Hyundai 290LC-9. Porter Equipment Wellington Territory Manager, Josh Hunter, made the sale.

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Peter and Raewyn Douglas and the team at Douglas Logging in Dargaville have taken delivery of a new Komatsu PC 300LC-8 that has been set up as a Tractionline winch-assist machine by Chris, Jono, Brad and the team at EMS. Pictured from left are Brent Worthington, Karl Massick, Jono (EMS), Daniel Boyd, John Kosar (Komatsu Forest NZ) and Richie Kuljish. Photo: Brad Douglas.

Kent Mackerra has received his second Hyundai R290LC-9 H/C, with this one set up to work with a bucket and quick hitch arrangement.

His crew are over the moon with the performance, power and speed of the R290LC-9 H/C. The sale was made by Porter Equipment Wellington Territory Manager, Josh Hunter.

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CAT FOR GRAHAM Chris Graham, from C & M Graham Logging, has taken delivery of a Cat 538 running an Ensign 1530 grapple, replacing an older Cat 324D. Chris is working at Litchfield and Rocky, the operator, has been looking forward to putting the newcomer to work fleeting and loading. Mark Costello, from Gough Cat, sold the machine.

BOA POD FOR LAHAR Lahar Logging, based in the central North Island, has taken delivery of a new BOA pod hydraulic hose repair and maintenance unit, to enable machines to get back up and running in as little as 20 mins after a blown hose. BOA Hydraulics delivered the unit, trained the team and went through the features, which includes German-made precision crimping and cutting low voltage machinery, remote controlled motorised hose handling system, Yokohama hoses, contamination free hose assembly, lockable compartments and more. Pictured, from left, are Oliver Boakes (BOA territory sales rep) and Smiler Katane (Lahar Logging).

Anderson & O'Leary has upgraded its Hyundai fleet with a new HL757-9 wheel loader for the Whenuapai yard. Seen here with a set of new Ensign TR2C log forks, ready to unload cut logs from the many truck and trailers they receive. The HL757-9 also has the lifting ability to unload the empty large logging trailers commonly used in logging. Plant Manager, Andrew Anderson, was keen to add a second HL757-9 to the one already working with the company. It is fitted with a new Loadrite weighing system, printer and cell modem for keeping live records of loads. Porter Equipment North Auckland & Northland Territory Manager, Paul Gorrie, made the sale.

KOMATSU & SATCO FOR D&K D&K Contracting in Invercargill has taken delivery of a new Komatsu PC300, fitted with a SATCO 3L2SC head. The machine was guarded

by Active Engineering.

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BROWN CATS Daniel, from Brown Logging, has taken delivery of two new Caterpillar machines, with this new Cat 538FM going into his second crew, Brown 30. The purpose-built 538 is running an Ensign 1530 and is fleeting and loading. The other machine is a new Cat 330F, which has gone into Brown 44. The 330FL has a full guarding package

by Ensign and is running an Ensign 1530 grapple. Mark Costello, from Gough Cat, sold both machines.

DOWN & OUT HYUNDAIS Deane and Sheree James, of Down & Out Logging, have taken delivery of two new Hyundai R290LC-9 High Chassis grapple loaders to support their expanding logging operations, replacing earlier Hyundai dash-9 models that had provided sterling service. The new machines were forestry guarded by PFS Engineering in Hamilton and are fitted with (APC) All Purpose Cabins, Ensign HT1730 grapples and single bar grousers. The first one has gone into Down & Out’s operations near Te Araroa and is operated by Graeme, with the second unit working near Te Puia Springs, operated by Lionel. Both operators are rapt with the performance of their new grapple loaders, especially the climbing ability when shovelling trees in difficult areas. Porter Equipment Hawkes Bay / Gisborne / Taupo Territory Manager, Roger Pedersen, made the sale.

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1101 DETROIT 60 SERIES ENGINE THROTTLE SWITCH

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35 years experience building diesel engines. Cummins QSK19 only 1713 hours since new. We have the correct make up Cummins 855 STC and Caterpillar 3406C and Detroit diesel 60 series engines used in Madill-Brightwater-Thunderbird haulers rebuilt - run up and tested - ready to go. We travel anywhere in New Zealand to fit engines if required. We have Caterpillar 3406C built as log hauler spec, but can be changed to suit other Caterpillar applications such as Caterpillar D8N Dozer and others.

We also travel to do jobs such as tune ups - oil leaks or what ever problems you may have on above engines.

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Floor Stock on Hand Recently traded low hour HTH624C head only. Never fallen a tree.

Available now, balance of new warranty applies.

Call Jason for more information.

0274 864 227 Price $200,000 + GST

Waratah 624C

NEW STOCK NEW

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FL95 Series II Brand new floor stock, Fixed saw box felling head with 1000mm log cut. Ready to replace any existing felling head plug and play. Auto tension main saw $85,000

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FL85 Series II Brand new Floor stock, small felling head ideal for small 20 ton carrier, auto tension saw $65,000

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Waratah 852 Log Grapple

Waratah 864 Log Grapple

Heavy duty fleet and stack grapple. High pressure cylinders allow mains pressure to be used in grapple circuit.

Price $27,750

Heavy duty fleet and stack grapple. High pressure cylinders allow mains pressure to be used in grapple circuit.

Price $29,550

USED

New Waratah SG360RS Grapple with Supersaw 650S Extra heavily reinforced model for the toughest jobs in the forest and excavator applications, Strong cushioned cylinder reduces shock loads, ž Saw unit SC300 Integrated mounting of saw motor, No hoses in the saw box, Simple installation Introductory Pricing $38,500

USED

Waratah 618C Upper and lower delimb knives along with topping saw are standard features on the HTH618C.Short, robust chassis that can easily be positioned in tight spots while thinning or taking on the bent and ugly timber for which this model is famous for.

Price $130,000.00 + GST excluding automation

USED

Rebuilt 626 Bigwood

Waratah 622B

Waratah 625C - Under Rebuild

Rebuilt 626 Bigwood - New motors, line bore, new pins, hydraulic valve bank reseal, repaint. New TimberRite automation system.

TimberRite Head only. Softwood spec. Ready to go

Just traded 625c with TimberRite Optimisation computer system, auto tension mainsaw and ž topsaw. Our Waratah technician will partially or fully rebuild this unit to meet your needs. Talk to us today.

As is price $42,500.00

*prices exclude GST and are valid for a limited period.

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Two 2013/14 Tigercat LH855C’s with 9,000 to 11,000 Hours. Both have Satco Fall & Delimb Head (1 with measuring).

Ex Taupo.

2009 John Deere 753 JH Harvester

15,000 hours, Waratah 622B with measuring, Topping Saw & optimiser.

A well serviced machine, Ex Christchurch

$160,000 + GST

$495,000 + GST Each ONO 2011 Tigercat 635D Log Skidder

(Sample photo as currently in the paint shop) with 12,500 hours, new Engine, 4 new 30.5 rear tyres, Winch & 25 ft Grapple Ex Invercargill.

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Log Skidder with 16,827 Hours, Large Fuel Tank, 25 Sqft Grapple, 35.5 Tyres on the Rear. Recently had new Engine & front Diff fitted. ex Invercargill.

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9,000 Hours, Tigercat 5195 Felling Head, tethering Hitch, new undercarriage to be fitted, available late March. ex Dunedin.

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CHOOSE THE HARDEST WORKERS. Call us on 0800 NOKIAN (0800 665 426) or email info@nokian.nz to find a dealer.

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

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Teebar manufactured and sold. Wheeled loader WA470/3.

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Branches now in the NZ LARGEST RANGE OF SKIDDER FOR SALE: Clark 664, 666C, 666B, F67 Grapple Skidders No rth & South Island CHAINS, HEA HEAVIER AND BETTER Komatsu D65/6 and D85/21 log rigged, CAT 936, 950B and Komatsu WA470/ wheeled loaders, buckets or forks.

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