On Tuesday, January 12, Wenita held its annual Safe Start Breakfast at the Taieri Rugby Club with all harvesting, silviculture, roading and transport crews. This year more than 180 people attended. Wenita CEO David Cormack kicked off the event with some safety...
NIWA’s climate modelling is predicting air temperatures are highly likely to be above average in all regions of the country until at least January. It has confirmed the arrival of La Niña conditions and forecasts Coastal Otago will have above-normal to near-normal...
Careful planning and skillful logging and roading operations have enabled us to preserve important historical sites in Allanton Forest. Before we started work, we invited Southern Pacific Archaeological Research (SPAR) to identify heritage sites associated with...
A Livingstone farmer has praised Wenita contractor McHoull Contracting for its efforts in fighting a forestry block fire. The fire, near Livingstone (inland from Oamaru), started in the early hours of Sunday morning. Read more about it by clicking on this Otago Daily...
Roxburgh Contracting and Griffin Logging recently introduced tethered machines into their felling operations. The felling machine is tethered by a cable to another machine that acts as its anchor, which is a great safety initiative for our operators, who sometimes...
Blackhead Quarries carried out blasting at our Skyline Quarry in May this year, with 17,000 benched cubic metres (BCM) of rock blasted, which will give access to around 44,000 tonnes of material. Blasts are carried out each year at Skyline to access the rock required...
