Construction, Features
Forestry: Zero swing
Back in the late eighties I was given the opportunity to purchase a 20-tonne excavator and attach a Hultdins 850 felling head on the end of the stick.
Construction, Features
Porter Press extra: Road show demos
While heading down to the National Fieldays expo at Mystery Creek last month, I decided to bypass the new bypass, opting to pop into Porter Equipment at Te Rapa. At this time of year it has its travelling road show units based there for anyone in the trade to drop in unannounced and have a test drive.
Features, Trucks
Colossal Solutions for giant problems
Moving an extra-large, ultra-heavy load is a specialist job co-ordinated with military precision – and almost always executed in the dead of night. It also requires purpose-built, multi-wheeled trailers. Fortunately New Zealand boasts one of the Southern Hemisphere’s leading manufacturers of these unique transporters.
Features, Trucks
A family affair: the Wymer Brothers story
“It’s in the blood” goes the line in a 1971 Sly and the Family Stone hit single. This is true of the Wymer family of Hamilton: trucks and machinery are in their blood too.
Construction, Features
Business Profile: Reid & Twiname
It’s a pretty safe bet that nobody reading this magazine would have had their name on the original customer list of this iconic supplier of motor body hardware.
Construction, Features
Forestry: Drug Bust
Forestry and drugs: the two go hand-in-hand. There are two businesses that make a living from within this environment, one legal and one illegal. The logging contractor on many occasions will come across a plot growing in his block that has to be clear-felled. It annoys the hell out of me when these drug growers have skulked out there in the dead of night and vandalised the logging contractor's equipment, spray-bombing machines with "Stay off my plot" or similar.
Features, Trucks
Maintenance: Driveshafts
Driveshafts aren’t a regular cause of breakdowns but this doesn’t mean they’re invincible. Sudden, excessive vibration is an obvious indication something’s amiss, and the root of the problem, more often than not, is poor maintenance. Lawrence Schäffler reports.
Features, Trucks
History: Bulk spreading
Having had several off-road vehicles in my time and admitting to a huge interest in trucks and machinery, I was delighted when the offer to do a story on not just one, but two of my interests came my way.
Features, Trucks
Dairy for life
Do you sometimes wonder if the people clocking up thousands of dollars in student loans actually carry on and get work in the industry they have been studying for? Dairy for life
Construction, Features
Forestry: Be nice
Once again, a member of the Green Party recently made a strong stand against the new proposed highway from Puhoi to Wellsford.
Construction, Features