Forestry Minister, Stuart Nash, says forestry exports are showing good signs of recovery. “Strong demand for logs from China and for sawn timber from the United States is driving recovery in our forestry exports,” he says.

The TimberPro TF840 has been the big gun of forwarders for many years.

Easily capable of legally moving 30 tonnes of wood from the cut-over to the skid site, it has no trouble out-muscling other forwarders in the heavy-hauling department.

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.