by Andrew Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery
Maximising your return from your forest: The ABC’s of Forestry Stumpage and Forest Valuation Part 1. Know the Value of Your Asset. Small forests, or woodlots, make up a surprisingly large chunk of the national exotic plantation estate. Yet some of these forests...
by Andrew Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery
Maximising your return from your forest: The ABC’s of Forestry Stumpage and Forest Valuation Part 2. Appointing Contractors and Method of Sale. Small forests are scattered throughout New Zealand and in each region wherever there are forests there are competent...
by David Herries | Sep 10, 2015 | Cloud Services, Harvesting, Logmaister, STICKS, Value Recovery
In 2009, a staff member in a large forest management company in the North Island, New Zealand expressed concern over the reduction in piece size of the stems they were processing in to logs. This company used a log merchandising system that captured the piece size of...
by David Herries | Aug 28, 2015 | Harvesting, Log Defect Measurement, Logmaker Auditing, STICKS, Value Recovery
Designing cutting instructions for harvesters is still something many forest owners and managers in New Zealand and Australia are still learning. Part of this learning is the use of Simulators from the harvester machine manufacturers. By using a simulator to help in...
by David Herries | Jul 7, 2015 | Harvesting, STICKS
SilviA 7 is a newly developed version of the original program SilviA2007 (last version produced in 2007 and was Windows XP dependent). Primarily SilviA 7 is used to create new cutting instructions (bucking rules for product pricelists) for distribution to mechanised...
by David Herries | Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, STICKS, Value Recovery
Recently at HarvestTech 2015, David Herries and Jeremy Gibson spoke on utilising harvester information to improve value recovery and production planning workflows using a recently released Cloud Service called STICKS. STICKS developed by ForestPHD and Interpine...
by David Herries | Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Log Scaling, STICKS, Value Recovery
Interpine recently hosted a workshop on harvester data management at Waiairki Institute of Technology (WIT). 36 attended from forest companies, consultants, contractor entities, machine manufacturers (SATCO, Woodsman, SouthStar and LogMax) and academia from University...
by admin | Apr 14, 2015 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, Health and Safety, STICKS, Value Recovery
Together with SATCO LOGGING ATTACHMENTS, Interpine is able through STICKS to track felling progress using GPS in a full tree harvesting system1 without the need for ANY additional software or hardware. As STICKS the Harvest and Woodflow Solution is constantly...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
We often get asked; “how can we get our forest maps onto our mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets” As expected there are many ways to do this, but in this article I thought it was worth covering one of the simplest. This being to simply stop...
by admin | Mar 15, 2015 | Cloud Services, DataPlus Mobile, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
Interpine has recently made available its device management system for use by our cloud services clients. This allows them to link rugged handhelds computers, tablets and smartphone to our cloud services. These devices can be operating iOS, Android, Windows, Windows...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, HarvestNav, STICKS, Value Recovery
Interpine Launches STICKS! In co-operation with an Australian based company ForestPHD, Interpine has developed a new cloud based product that improves decision making along the forest supply chain and helps interrogate data collected from mechanized CTL...
by admin | Sep 22, 2014 | Harvesting, Log Scaling, Logmaker Auditing, STICKS, Training, Value Recovery
Interpine’s Log Value Recovery Auditors recently attending a training session hosted by Waratah Forestry Attachments at their Rotorua training centre. The focus was learning more about the TimberRite measuring and control system, while also focusing on the key...
by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | Harvesting, HarvestNav, LiDAR
The free version of HARVESTNAV is now downloadable and includes a number of new features which have developed from the positive industry feedback and infield testing. It now supports: aerial imagery the use of an external GPS, like a classic Garmin 60, 62S or 64 via...
by David Herries | Jul 29, 2014 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Slash Assessment, Value Recovery
Practitioners Guide to the Methodology Introduction Concerned with improving the recovery of merchantable volume across a harvest cutover, a harvest supervisor or forest owner will often need to quantify how much is left post-harvest. The time and effort spent doing...
by admin | Jul 10, 2014 | Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery, YTGEN
Woodlot valuation are traditionally based on averages which tend to ignore the effects of variability or risk. Sources or variability in woodlot valuations typically included the following: Log price changes JAS conversions factors m3 / tonne conversion factors Yield...
by David Herries | Apr 22, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav
HarvestNav is now available as a free download from the Interpine website. Users can now access the application online which was developed with funding from Future Forest Research Ltd. Version 1 of the application is being made available as a free download to...
by David Herries | Feb 11, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav, Health and Safety, LiDAR
In conjunction with Future Forest Research, Interpine has been developing a Harvest Navigation System called HarvestNav. Interpine recently presented the HarvestNav system at the Foresttech Conference in Nov 2013. This outlined a series of recent in forest trials of...
by David Herries | Sep 29, 2013 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Slash Assessment, Value Recovery
Over the years many of our clients from forest owners, harvesting crews and forest supervisors have asked about harvest cutover assessment methodology. Many have struggled with the concept of the line intersect sampling procedure, so I thought it might pay to document...
by David Herries | Aug 23, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
ATLAS Harvest Manager provides the company with a centralised system for managing all the harvest areas within the estate. It enables the harvest planner to record planned harvest areas years into the future, track the changes in state as the areas are prepared for...
by David Herries | Aug 21, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
Harvesting markups is a regular task carried out by most forest managers. This can be: an eyeball assessment sketched on a map, walking the boundary with a GPS, using offset waypoints with a GPS and rangefinder, or using an aerial flyover and photographs. Doing this...
