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HarvestTECH News | Issue 39

HarvestTECH News | Issue 39

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. In New Zealand, the news over the last month has been dominated by Cyclone Gabrielle and its aftermath. The cyclone cut off communities and caused widespread flooding and destruction to homes, businesses and infrastructure. As the clean-up continues, one key debate will be on how we, the forest industry and other land users, ...
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John Deere Introduces New Mid-Size Crawler Log Loader

John Deere Introduces New Mid-Size Crawler Log Loader

The new 2956G offers optimal horsepower and hydraulic capability. Helping ease transportability, the 2956G design offers an overall shipping width of less than 11'6" and a 90,000 lbs operating weight ...
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Plantation thinning for carbon, timber and innovation

Plantation thinning for carbon, timber and innovation

Plantation thinning may not be new in the forestry sector, which has been thinning to improve tree growth and vigour for years. But the operations being carried out by Forico ...
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Remsoft partners with ForestPHD

Remsoft partners with ForestPHD

Remsoft has announced a new collaboration with Australian-based company ForestPHD, the developer of STICKS, to enable the use of forest machine data in Remsoft Forest IntelligenceTM solutions. The partnership will ...
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More details on Methyl Bromide & EDN decisions

More details on Methyl Bromide & EDN decisions

In August 2021 a decision on the Reassessment of methyl bromide for fumigation of New Zealand logs was released by the EPA. This was followed more recently by the release ...
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Stirling Logging on building a good team

Stirling Logging on building a good team

How can forestry companies look after their teams? See how Gisborne-based contractor Stirling Logging does it with things like top gear, hot food, smart targeting of bonuses and being a ...
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Forico improves harvest operations planning

Forico improves harvest operations planning

With Forico's implementation of cloud-based Remsoft Operations, planning pressures can be predicted 6-12 months in advance and the scheduling process is more efficient, taking 50% less time. Forico, Tasmania’s largest ...
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Swedish centipede forestry machine developed

Swedish centipede forestry machine developed

A new type of forest machine is currently driving around the forests of Sweden. It combines a low-impact approach, increased productivity and an improved operator environment and is the result ...
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Tigercat enters yarder market

Tigercat enters yarder market

Tigercat Enters Yarding Niche with 180 - The new Tigercat 180 swing yarder is purpose built from the ground up. It combines the speed and stability of conventional yarders with ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 29

HarvestTECH News | Issue 29

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. While electric vehicles are still a way off for the sector, technology is rapidly improving and there are numerous electric heavy vehicle trials underway ...
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Bush fire-fighting efforts – from 70 years ago

Bush fire-fighting efforts – from 70 years ago

A couple of weeks ago we built in links to three extensive reports covering three major bush fires in Australia. Collectively they burnt over 120 million ha compiled and written ...
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Trial of new silviculture mentoring programme

Trial of new silviculture mentoring programme

Ten silviculture crews around New Zealand have completed a trial of a new mentoring programme developed by the Forest and Wood Processing Workforce Taskforce, with funding from the Forest Growers ...
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Volvo’s electric truck gets tick of approval

Volvo’s electric truck gets tick of approval

The first electric Volvo truck on Australian roads is getting a tick of approval from one of the most authoritative voices in the transport industry – a truck driver. It ...
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Switching from paper to digital communications

Switching from paper to digital communications

PF Olsen has recently adopted the Assura Software platform to support their Health & Safety needs in challenging environments, plus solve a number of other business issues. Check out the ...
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Pre-training prepares job seekers for forestry work

Pre-training prepares job seekers for forestry work

Nathan Fogden has 2,000 hectares of land to plant and prune in 2022 but not the staff to complete the work. “It’s a really competitive labour market these days,” says ...
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Stihl our top wood chopper

Stihl our top wood chopper

Top Axeman makes the cut for tilt at coveted 10th World Title - An emotional Jason Wynyard has cut his first step towards claiming a 10th world title by winning ...
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Challenges of switching to electric vehicles

Challenges of switching to electric vehicles

This article appeared recently and puts into perspective some of the challenges being faced in switching from fossil fuels to electric vehicles. The range of new EVs available in this ...
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Waratah to offer Moipu products in Europe and Asia-Pacific

Waratah to offer Moipu products in Europe and Asia-Pacific

Waratah and Moisio Forest Oy, a Finland-based forest machine attachment and accessory manufacturer, have signed a co-operation agreement for sales, marketing and distribution of Moipu branded products. Waratah will begin ...
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Debris flow study indicates landslide risk

Debris flow study indicates landslide risk

Marlborough District Council recently commissioned University of Canterbury researchers to map the North Marlborough area for river and stream catchments that may be susceptible to debris flows or debris floods, ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 28

HarvestTECH News | Issue 28

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. Biofuel announcements on both sides of the Tasman continue to pop up – almost daily now. Better utilisation of forest residues has moved from ...
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Specialist wood fuel suggested by Genesis

Specialist wood fuel suggested by Genesis

Genesis Energy believes converting part of the Huntly power station to run on biofuel could be economic, but it will need a source of the specialist wood fuel needed to ...
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Car and truck carrier loads wood products

Car and truck carrier loads wood products

A vessel normally used to transport cars and trucks called at Northport this week to load approximately 5,000 cubic metres of triboard from the Juken Mill in Kaitaia. The m.v ...
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John Deere introduces new full-tree simulator

John Deere introduces new full-tree simulator

John Deere has announced the release of the new and innovative Forestry Full-Tree Training Simulator. This development offers cost-effective and efficient operator training in a risk-free environment, all while avoiding ...
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C3 delivers industry-first grapple log loading innovation

C3 delivers industry-first grapple log loading innovation

C3 Limited, part of the broader LINX Cargo Care Group, has officially unveiled the new C3 Log Vessel Grapple (LVG) at the Port of Tauranga, a first in Australasia.Held exclusively ...
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Yes – big trees, they still exist

Yes – big trees, they still exist

Murray Logging owner Andrew Murray said cutting the trees and getting them on a truck was laborious. They were cut from Manuka Gorge in Otago, NZ and were about 80 ...
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Addressing driver fatigue with technology

Addressing driver fatigue with technology

Dynes implements driver fatigue cameras across the whole fleet - Moving to the deep south, in a pioneering move, Dynes Transport has implemented driver fatigue cameras across its entire fleet ...
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Improved log load securing project underway

Improved log load securing project underway

As part of the FGR programme in Automation and Robotics, a project has commenced to develop a safe and efficient alternative load securing system in New Zealand for logging trucks ...
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Monster Redwood from South Canterbury

Monster Redwood from South Canterbury

This log is from a Sequoiadendron giganteum. The tree’s common name is either Giant sequoia or Sierra Redwood. It has also been given a nick name, “Wellingtonia” with history suggesting ...
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HarvestTECH News | Issue 27

HarvestTECH News | Issue 27

Welcome to the latest issues of HarvestTECH.News. This is the first issue of 2022 and how things have changed since we last corresponded. Omicron has been an unwelcome game-changer in ...
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A Christmas present for every forest worker?

A Christmas present for every forest worker?

You can only ask your manager or boss – right? After all, you really deserve it after the year you've just been through. They say the feeling you experience when ...
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Bridge over undisturbed waters

Bridge over undisturbed waters

A Wairarapa-based forestry company are paving the way with stream crossing bridges that don’t disturb the waterway. Josh Blazek and Guy Farman of Farman Turkington Forestry came up with the ...
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ISO logs onto new technology

ISO logs onto new technology

There’s some high-tech wizardry taking place as this ISO Limited log shuttle heads through the company’s log yard at Port Taranaki. We’re thrilled ISO is supporting the growing export log ...
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Mana Wahine on a mission

Mana Wahine on a mission

Learning with the Generation Programme has proved life-changing for 22-year-old Ariana Ngaronoa and she’s already lining up more study to pursue a career in forestry that she previously hadn’t considered ...
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