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TRACK & WHEEL Reaching new heights 34 <strong>CablePrice</strong>
TRACK & WHEEL Hawke’s Bay and East Coast forestry contracting company, DG Glenn Logging, reaches new heights with its Hitachi ZX360W-3 wheeled excavator. Twenty kilometres north of Napier at the Whirinaki industrial site, Pan Pac mill’s processing yard is a hive of activity as logging trucks, cut-to-length excavator-based processors, log loaders and wheel loaders scurry about, transporting, scanning, measuring, swinging, cutting, sorting and stacking the continual flow of logs, in to the mill. In the midst of the organised chaos sits the first 36-tonne Hitachi ZX360W-3 wheeled excavator delivered into the country. Complete with an impressive 16m boom/arm reach, hi-rising cab and Ensign grapple, the ZX360W-3 – Hawke’s Bay and East Coast forestry contracting company DG Glenn Logging’s (DGL) newest purchase – is quickly making its mark on the processing yard operation. Behind the wheel of the new ZX360W-3 sits Matthew Glenn, son of company owner, Dennis Glenn. From inside the air-conditioned cabin, raised 3m off the ground, listening to music broadcast via his iPod plugged into the radio’s auxiliary point, Matthew sits in a key position in the yard’s log-handling process. His role is to sort and stack the logs as they come off the QC (quality control) deck. The logs are then placed in bunks for wood going direct to the mill by way of wheel loader, with export logs separated out from there. The processing yard is capable of averaging 2500-tonne per day when demand requires, with Matthew handling around 60-70 percent of this. If he can’t keep up it creates a backlog that slows down the entire operation. After clocking up over 32,000 hours on a Hitachi EX300 tracked log loader over eight years, Matthew says, “This is like learning to drive a new machine ‘cause I was so used to having to drive erratically with an older machine. “Then I jumped into this brand-new one, and it actually took a few days before I got settled and started driving really well.” It has also got a lot more reach than the last machine, so it means he [Matthew] can have more sorts stacked around him and he can run for longer if the wheel loaders don’t come and clean him out.” Dennis Glenn, DG Glenn Logging And now? “Yeah, it’s perfect now,” Matthew says. With the EX300 due for replacement, operations manager for DGL, Rob Scurr explains, “Putting tracks back onto a sealed yard wasn’t going to be the best option. The rubber tyres don’t damage the yard as much and the mobility of the wheeled excavator makes it a more versatile machine in our operation. “If Matt finishes sorting and loading early the loader can go and do different tasks more easily than a tracked machine. <strong>CablePrice</strong> 35
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