by George Fullerton | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2025
This spring, Forest NB welcomed a good turnout to their Annual General Meeting and Industry Forum in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick, with a very appropriate theme considering the times: Embracing Change, Growing Impact. Speakers focused on developments in the...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, DIY, Small Scale, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2025, Sawmill, Value Added
Gerald Sambrooke, a retired Chief Forest Ranger in Alberta, and his wife, Teresa, like to travel. That should come as no surprise given his 76 years of age. But he is also a bandsaw mill owner who hates to see a good log go to waste. A graduate of the Forest...
by George Fullerton | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, May/June 2025
Miguel Faucher’s harvest contracting business focuses on sensitive thinning and harvesting for private woodlot owners in the Centre-du-Quebec region, around the city of Drummondville, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Faucher’s home base is in...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation, Trucking
Log truck platooning—where two or more log trucks transport logs from harvest sites on resource roads with only one qualified log truck driver in the lead vehicle and the following vehicles responding through the use of drive-by-wire communication technology to his...
by Forestnet | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2025, Tech Update
Weiler Forestry The new Weiler Forestry S240 and S340 wheel skidders are designed with simplicity, performance, comfort and serviceability in mind, says the company. Weiler says that the ’40 series will grow to include multiple size classes to satisfy all types of...
by Forestnet | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Industry News, May/June 2025
The massive LIGNA show held in Hanover, Germany in May celebrated its 50th anniversary, and it continues to be a leading platform for forest industry equipment suppliers—and Canadian companies received their share of interest at the show. LIGNA 2025 once again proved...
