top spot
Safety/performance/quality
Silviculture Period 1 THIS ISSUE IT’S A SILVICULTURE SPECIAL featuring results for both Thin to Waste and Pruning. We believe the investment made in these guys through Top Spot by forestry companies is showing dividends in work habit, professionalism and increased forest value. Bold claims you may think, but that’s the feedback we get from forest managers and contractors. Remember, we are talking about a huge value-added investment made through these folk in the first ten years of your forest’s growth phase.
We are particularly pleased with the results from the Thin to Waste crews (below) as everything starts to tighten up at the top end. The team at Wayne Cumming Forestry
THIN TO WASTE RESULTS
CREW
ESTATE
PARTICIPANT
PLACING
Inta-Wood Forestry
Private
Dion Kahi
1st=
Wayne Cumming Forestry Contracting
Ernslaw One
Wayne Cumming
1st=
Otautau Contractors
Matariki Forests
Jim Dodds
3rd=
Otautau Contractors
Matariki Forests
Todd Irvine
3rd=
X-Men Forestry
Ernslaw One
Kalib Te Ngahue
3rd=
X-Men Forestry
Ernslaw One
Russell Te Ngahue
3rd=
Wayne Cumming Forestry Contracting
Ernslaw One
Koroi Cirinakaumoli
3rd=
Wayne Cumming Forestry Contracting
Ernslaw One
Whetu Pullen
3rd=
Contracting are the bolters from the first period – adding to the group of top performers that we have seen develop through this competition. There are also a bunch of participants just outside of these top placings who are really putting the pressure on. The likes of Trent Soper and Reece Vazey, who have shown the skillset that makes the difference between a good and excellent operator, will continue to press for top placings towards the end of the year. While that is the upside, the chart included (bottom left) shows we still have some work to do in bringing the results up consistently across all participants. Not to be outdone by the Thin to Waste crews, we are also seeing excellent results from the Pruning competition (opposite). Our assessor noted that some of these guys are machines, the way they go about their work.
Johnson Forestry Services’ Adam McLennan
46 NZ LOGGER | August 2021
