On the same day as the voluntary liquidation, a video was taken of one of the company’s skidders being tipped over a cliff next to the Waiau River in northern Hawke’s Bay near Cricklewood Rd.
The video, shared online by an anonymous person, shows a Cat skidder tumbling down the bank and includes the caption “pay ya bills or pay the price, receivers will have a hard time repossessing that one”.
A Hawke’s Bay Regional Council spokeswoman said the machine remained on a “steep, hard-to-reach location”.
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She said the council’s pollution response team visited the site on Wednesday, and planned to return once river levels dropped “for a closer assessment”.
JDS Logging owner Daniel Shoaf confirmed…