LOGGING, MILLING. TRANSPORTING AND SEASONING OUR TIMBER.
Windfall Timbers was a collaboration with local contractors and workers in Westport, set up from nothing in 2015 to extract logs and produce finished timber products sustainably from windblown native trees on a dairy farm in South Westland. The ethic of conservation and preservation of the remaining forest remnants was adopted in line with the Forests Act and the policies of the Ministry of Primary Industries, as well as respect for the cultural and natural values of native forests and timber and avoidance of waste and damage by maximum recycling and recovery of the entire resource, including short lengths, off-cuts, slabs, sawdust, bark and other by-products.
Windfall Timbers’ bushman surveying windblown logs
Westland forest destroyed by Cyclone Ita
South Westland totara trees after windfall showing root plates ripped out of ground.
Fallen matai and totara in remnant forest
Surviving matai trees after cyclone Ita 2014
Totara trees protected and conserved by us at Harihari
Totara forest in South Westland after cyclone Ita showing protedted trees and salvageable windfall.
Totara remnant forest protected and conserved by Windfall Timbers salvage operation in Harihari
Surveying and measuring up cyclone damage, Harihari
Sawmilling offcuts, bush milling on Harihari farmland.
Harihari skid site
Another fine day on the Person bush mill.
Base camp 1 for log cleanup Harihari
Peterson sawmillm Harihari.
Don’t do this at home
Wading in totara logs, Harihari
Freshly milled pink totara safetly stored and filleted for slow air drying on a windy beachfront site near Westport
Windfall Timber loggers hard at it.
and Lulu the Skidder waiting for smoko to end.
stacking up the skid
Skidding through the protected remnants
Lulu the Treefarmer skidder snigging a few victims through the remnant forest
Lulu on a roll
Recording salvage of windblown totara logs
Logs awaiting milling orders
Logs at home base
Salvaged matai and totara logs, Harihari.
A small sample of Heartland Timbers’ log stocks
Harihari sawmill and camp 2.
Harihari camp and mill
Unloading in Westport
The last load on the Mercedes of shorts, blocks and craft pieces of totara
