BREAKING OUT

Story: Hayley Leibowitz

Story: Hayley Leibowitz

IT TOOK INNOVATIVE PLANNING AND

engineering on the part of NZ Forestry and Rosewarne Logging to complete a challenging harvest at Kaihu, North of Dargaville and close to the Kaiwi Lakes.

“We got started on this block in May 2020 and it was tough timing coming into winter. Plus we had some pretty challenging roading to get done with our roading programme pushed out due to the COVID lockdown. But probably the biggest obstacle was trying to come up with a solution for a corridor of wood that was on the other side of a large stream crossing,” says Beth Owen, NZ Forestry Harvest Forester for the project.

In her first year on the job just out of university, Beth is one of a growing number of females in Supervisory roles in the industry. Her role covers all aspects of crew supervision, ensuring health and safety requirements are met, environmental considerations and standards are being upheld and wood outturn is optimised. This diminutive 23-year-old is following in her father and brother’s footsteps making her career in the bush. She is enjoying the challenge of learning the trade and acknowledges that there are a lot of good people in the industry with vast knowledge and skills to draw on in her role. “My job is to ensure that everything gels and the forest owner’s interests are looked after.

“In that regard, I often do health and safety checks or audits when I’m out there, plus log quality audits, running over the logs before they go out the gate to make sure that we’re optimising the grade outturn. I double check that all wood is being collected from the cutover and has made it onto a truck and out the gate. And then the other aspect is that we’re working within the National Environmental Standards (NES) rules, so ensuring that slash and debris hasn’t made its way into waterways and that the crew is on top of tracking and sediment controls,” says Beth.

Finding solutions

The project, which was completed in November 2020, used a combination of harvesting systems involving ground-based

forwarder and swing yarder extraction, and truck two-staging of wood to harvest a long corridor beside a large stream. The harvest systems were quite diverse for the size of the block.

“Installing a shipping container crossing limited the environmental impact to our whenua while providing a cost-effective solution for the client,” says Beth. The shipping container dimensions fitted the stream cross-section well, minimising the earthworks required to the stream bank, and the log infill and bearers effectively bridged the container so no structural strength was relied on with the container.

This is the third such container/log bridge NZ Forestry has installed in Northland so they have the installation process down pat. By using log infill around the container it eliminates the chance of dirt going in the stream and makes deconstruction easy with just logs to pull out. The crossing was deemed as temporary under the NES so could not be left in place. The dry Northland summer beforehand meant the stream did not rise a lot while the container was in place as the ground soaked up most of the rain while there.

“The block was mainly mechanised felled, and cable and ground-based extraction were quite even in area over a total harvest (continued on page 32) Above: NZ Forestry Harvest Forester, Beth Owen, with Rosewarne Logging Foreman, Dan Kawana-Pool, enjoying the view. Below: John Deere loader unloading the John Deere forwarder.

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(continued from page 28) area of 73 hectares. The corridor of wood on the other side of the crossing and another suitable area were ground-based and then the rest was completed by cable extraction. There was a bit of tethered felling and manual felling in the trickier areas,” adds Beth.

Rosewarne Logging Foreman, Dan Kawana-Pool, who has worked for Colin Rosewarne for the past seven years and for Lars Rosewarne for three years prior to that, says they mechanically fell 99% of most blocks but some manual tree falling is still required. “This needs a decent amount of pre-planning and having good cutters,” he says. “Mechanical felling can create a lot of hazards for manual fallers if it is not planned right, so the guys needed to constantly look ahead at any terrain where they might need the hand fallers, and then plan how they would do the mechanised bit without leaving debris in the tree crowns and on the ground amongst the trees where the hand fallers needed to work. Reliable, safe cutters made it easy to switch the felling machine off and use the good old chainsaw”.

With some 15 hectares of the block over the crossing, it wasn’t going to be a five minute job, especially at the start of winter. Needing to install a crossing to meet NES requirements to harvest “we had to come up with a solution that was going to be cost-effective for the volume

Above: Rosewarne Cable Loggers Crew 104, from left: Jamie Smith, Ardie Mahu, Dan Johnson, Andrew Lawson, Kyal Pairama, Ben Edwards, Foreman: Dan Kawana-Pool, Absent: Colin Rosewarne: Contractor. Right: Foreman, Dan-Kawana-Pool, of RCL 104 with JD 850J remote operated bulldozer utilised for steep slope.

involved so the Client’s financial return wasn’t drastically affected, while limiting the impact to the stream and the area around the stream” says Beth of the road over the top of the crossing. NZ Forestry’s experience installing the container/bridge crossing in other forests made the perfect solution. The block was worked by doing all of the ground based first, leaving the cable extraction for the wetter months of August/ September.

Beth explains the solution in more detail: “The reason we two-staged the logs from over the crossing was the shape of the setting and the total volume involved. The setting was long and skinny meaning it would have relatively high roading cost per tonne in order to balance haul distance if it was traditionally logged, plus there were a couple of gradient issues. There was an existing establishment road which could be upgraded to stage truck standard with little work, or to get to truck and trailer standard it was a major undertaking to get the width and gradients required. We chewed the fat quite a bit with Rosewarne’s about how to tackle this on the way to reaching a final decision on the plan” .

Dan points out that the area presented other challenges too: “This project was different to others due to the waterways and riparian zones through the cutover… also the terrain, some spots were flat as a footy field and others steep enough to challenge the hand fallers. The terrain here is a real mixed bag, dead flat fields to rolling hills, to straight drops to the creek edge.

“It has been challenging in some areas but easily overcome by good planning and being prepared, with daily tasks in this block varying from felling some old crop trees away from the creek to pushing the Madill 124 right to its capabilities, pulling stems for 500 meters with ropes out to 700m to aid deflection,” he says. With an experienced crew of eight and the newest member just 16 years old, “we have quite a few experienced guys who have been in the bush for most of their life and a couple greenies who are new to the industry,” says Dan. Ben, the youngest member of the team,

has taken over the QC role from his Nana Carol, who worked for Colin for 20 years. Carol made sure Ben learnt the log spec’s in detail, and he was very keen to pick up the chainsaw to do some trimming and recuts at the first opportunity, as well as learn how to maintain his saw.

Ardie, who is the crew’s main loader operator, is at the other end of the spectrum for experience, having worked in the bush for so long no-one can remember when he started. Ardie enjoys the challenge of loading as many trucks as he can if the wood is there and has been known to say “keep sending more” after a big day of 18-20 loads.

“We were spoilt with choice of machinery Rosewarne’s could offer too,” says Beth. In this block the crew utilised a John Deere 909KH feller buncher with a Duxson felling head, a John Deere 850J Remote Operated Bulldozer for the tethering system, a Hitachi 400 with a 626 Waratah head, a Hitachi 330 for shovelling and loading, a 2154 John Deere log loader, 1910E John Deere forwarder, a Terex off-road stage truck, a Cat D6 backline bully and a 124 Madill swing yarder. “There were very few difficulties with gear,” says Dan. “Pushing the yarder out over its normal 400 to 500 meter pulling distance has taught us a few good lessons for the future.”

Leaning on experience

At just five foot and new to the bush, you might think Beth would take a back seat but she’s done quite the opposite. “There are some interesting aspects to being a young woman in this context but I go in with a level head and ask lots of questions because the crew understand that I’ve got plenty to learn, so when I ask a question I know that they’re experienced and have a lot of knowledge I can draw on,” she says. “Everyone has different skills so one person on the job doesn’t need to know everything if we all work together.

“People in general make the job really interesting… you’re dealing with a wide variety of personalities and you’re not always going to tell them what they want to hear, as sometimes the focus on one part of the job doesn’t necessarily help towards the end result. So if there’s an issue that needs to be brought up, I have to communicate that in a way that explains the rationale for why. For example the Supervisor’s Health & Safety checks are done for one reason only and that’s to try to help everyone be as safe as possible. Each company has PCBU responsibilities to fulfil as well,” adds Beth. “Dan always enjoys a bit of banter, so most

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