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Logging

This year C3 has sorted through a average of 63,013.6986 wood logs, a day. Logging has been around since the beginning of time and humans have discovered many ways of cutting down large trees mostly pine.

People first used large axes and hacked at the wood for hours and hours, sometimes days depending on how many lumber jacks are working and how big the tree is, later humans found that they could use a long saw with two handles and stand on a spring board while they pull and push the saw into the tree. This technique rapidly sped up the progress. Now we use chainsaws and people climb to the top of the tree and chop off all the branches the people that do this are also called lumber jacks.

Transportation of the trees has come a long way from men rolling the trees, to horses towing the trees. Now we use trucks mostly MAN, Volvo and Mack trucks. The logs are now transported to City Centre in Tauranga, most logs come from Hineua forest, from City Centre they are split into groups, groups that will be made into timber, for your deck outside, groups that will be made into common house hold items, like your table etc.

In conclusion the logging industry has come a long way since it first began, we have gone from axes to chainsaws, rolling logs to using large trucks. It is amazing to think that once upon a time your nice sparkling table was a tree covered in bark that was strongly inserted into dirt.