Build Trip 2: Day 2
We are back in the bush and ready for action! and buy action I mean more milling, there’s nothing like settling in to a 45 minute cut to really get the blood pumping! Our newcomer this trip is John Michael… He seems to be a handy guy with his thick Read more
A little breather
Milling has been tough. It was always something Steve wasn’t looking forward to, but it had/has to be done. After 8 weeks of milling and many, many disappointments (chainsaws breaking, difficulties with repairs, trees falling wrong and rotten trees to name a few), Steve’s fed up with milling and needs Read more
Helicopter video
A short video showing off the great work NTM PNG’s helicopter is doing.
Milling Trip 3: Day 7
So fun story (unfortunately I don’t have photos of this fun story, but luckily for you I have a drawing app on my phone)! A few weeks back, on the second mill trip, Steve had been cutting a tree down for us to turn into glorious lumber. Unfortunately, instead of Read more
NTM PNG maintenance team
A short video showing off the work of NTM PNG’s tech services department.
A moment of despair
Well here I am again, out in the jungle hacking at trees with a chainsaw again. This is now my 7th week of full time logging and it’s still tough, unending work. Our house is up, but our co-workers house is yet to do so we’re back to cutting big Read more
Milling Trip 3: Day 2
So we decide to go wandering about through the woods turning trees into lumber and what do you know, we’re on our third milling trip! As you may recall from the last post, we needed to get some bars for the chainsaws from town, and we kind of succeeded. We Read more
Stanley November 19 video update
Our news this month – we’re home owners!!
An insight from the German work team in Kovol
„Where did I land here“, I asked myself first. Maybe 200 hands shook mine. We felt welcomed. And we felt like pop stars. Every child, even the smallest hand, wanted to be shaken.