CSL SUMI

Central Southland Logging (CSL) owners Chris Diack and Norman Butcher have purchased their third 250-class Sumitomo, replacing a dash-5 model that took over from a dash-3 240. CSL specialises in woodlots and local council forestry blocks throughout Southland. Uptime and reliability are crucial for this 5-man crew with only the one excavator and a skidder, and the new SH250 is kept busy shovelling, delimbing, sorting and loading. Guarding was undertaken by Bullied Engineering in Winton and an Ensign 1530 grapple plumbed up by Hydraulic Solutions of Southland completed the package. Dean Cousins, of AB Equipment, made the sale.