Landing size of harvesting operations in New Zealand

‘Pad’: is a small landing used in a two-staging operation. The pad normally serves the purpose of transferring the stems/trees from the primary to a secondary extraction machine. A common use of pads is in steep terrain, where a cable yarder will transfer to ground-based machine for further extraction to a larger processing landing. A contractor may attempt to integrate a mechanised processor onto a pad to delimb and top the trees. This aides subsequent extraction and avoid a build-up of slash on the processing landing.