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The Wagner has been around a long time in the New Zealand forestry Industry, but it isn’t ready to ride off into the sunset just yet.

More than 50 years after the first Wagners were built for a variety of materials handling tasks, there still isn’t another machine that can match its huge 50-tonne capacity. Think about it – that’s the weight of a road-legal logging truck and its entire load of wood, plus some to spare!

With such a monstrous appetite, it’s little wonder that log export professionals continue to work with Wagners at ports around the country, and a few still operate at major log yards throughout the Bay of Plenty.

Companies like C3, which ships around 23 million logs (10 million JAS) from New Zealand each year, most of them passing through the big jaws of a Wagner.