Business Services: Private Consultants

Private Consultants contacts who can assist with Forestry matters:

Please note: If you find errors or omissions concerning contacts please email: Bernard Young

Organisation A Banks
Contact Mr. Andy Banks
Phone (03) 5762 2965
Address 95 Bridge Street West
Benalla VIC 3672
Speciality

Pine Radiata Assessment - Pine Radiata Management Advise - logging supervision.

Organisation Agrilink Consulting Group P/L
Contact Mr. Gordon Cleary
Phone (03) 5831 2523
Fax (03) 5831 2464
Email farmstats@shepparton.net.au
Address 390 Wyndham St
Shepparton VIC 3630
Organisation Agrilogic Consultants Pty Ltd
Contact Bob Currie
Phone (02) 6024 5349
Address High Street
Wodonga VIC 3690
Organisation First Selection land Care Services
Contact Mr. Ed Adamson
Phone (03) 5777 5758, 0415 051 062
Address RMB 4449, 'Blackwood Bend'
Mansfield VIC 3722
Profile

Property planning and development services for country property owners. Specializing in diversification and farm forestry. Agriculture and conservation background.

Speciality

Farm Forestry and Farm Planning Services.

Organisation Forest Essentials
Contact Mr. Bill Incoll
Phone (03) 9756 6977
Email bincoll@onaustralia.com.au
Address 30 Moores Road
Monbulk VIC 3793
Profile

Seven years as independant forestry consultant, specialising in forest management planning and forest inventory. Special techniques have been developed for radid inventory of small plantations. Extensive experience in use and interpretation of ariel photographs. 15 years experience in forestry research; planning, establishing and analysing trials to estimate growth of forest and plantation and the efects of treatment on growth.

Organisation Goulburn/Broken Design Services
Contact Mr. David Arnold
Phone (03) 5798 1679, 0407 563 419
Email arnold@hdc.com.au
Address 87 Cowslip Street
Violet Town VIC 3669
Profile

This business provides planning and contracting services for farm forestry in NE Victoria. Advisor and contractor for the silvicultural management (thinning and pruning) or sawlog plantations. Substantial NE Victoria experience in plantation establishment, as project manager and as provider of sub-contracting services. Plantation design and development is combined with whole farm planning where required.

Speciality

Specialise in the cost-effective development of farm sawlog plantations, for multiple uses and benefits. Range of equipment for thinning and pruning. Using travel towers for high lift pruning on flatter sites, and a safe ladder/harness system for high lift pruing on slopes. Yeomans Keyline plough. Planting and fertilising equipment.

Organisation JME Consulting Pty Ltd
Contact Dr. Jim Edgar
Phone (03) 5345 2507
Fax (03) 5345 2507
Email jedgar@netconnect.com.au
Address PO Box 525
Ballarat VIC 3353
Profile

Farm forestry, plantation and rural land use consultants with extensive planning and project development/implementation experience.

Speciality

Forestry consulting, plantation management, financial and project planning, specialist personnel recruitment.

Organisation Landsys
Contact Mr. Mike Gardiner
Phone (03) 5721 7225, 0419 594 207
Fax (03) 5721 2761
Email mgard@netc.net.au
Address 61 Swan Street
Wangaratta VIC 3677
Profile

Trained professional forester currently providing a range of land management services, including field inspections of Crown land for Department of Natural resources and Environment, Code of Forest Practices issues relating to forestry operations on private land for Municipalities, and other issues relating to land use for consulting Engineers.

Organisation M Christensen
Contact M Christensen
Phone (02) 6076 1194
Address Towong Road
Corryong VIC 3707
Organisation Rural Works Pty Ltd
Contact Mr. John Dunn
Phone (03) 5798 1406, 0419 362 866
Fax (03) 5798 1740
Email rworks@mcmedia.com.au
Address 6 Rose Street
Violet Town VIC 3669
Profile

The Company is based in Violet Town and operates throughout NE Victoria & Southern NSW. John Dunn is the principal director and has 25 years experience in civil works. He is a former Municipal Engineer. The range of services provided are as follows: - Full project documentation including the preparation of specifications and estimates; - Civil works survey; - Project supervision; - Road design including pavement design; - Quarry and gravel pit works design and supervision; - OH & S system provision and implementation; - Quality assurance system preparation and implementation; - Earthworks and construction plant and equipment coordination and liason; - Structural assessment of bridges; Preparation of contract documentation for road works. Reviews of road and access standards and requirements. Preparation and supervision of quarrying contracts. Supervision of road works contracts.

Organisation Spray Calc
Contact Mr. John Campbell
Phone 0429 891 323, 0429 891 323
Fax (03) 5189 1323
Email spraycalc@telstra.com
Address 420 Carrajung Lower Road
Carrajung Lower VIC 3844
Profile

Why Purchase Spray Calc. Spray Calc was developed to improve safety accuracy and costing when calibrating any chemical spray unit. This program offers eight sections where information can be developed and input into the spray calculators or cost calculators in seconds. Spray Calc offers the following features and advantages: 1. A push button Menu system. 2. A Spray calculator with a quick reference chart showing chemical input. 3. A Dual sprayer or Twin sprayer calculator that includes a feature to input chemical names and rates. 4. A trial or known area calculator that can be used for trial spraying or known area spraying. 5. Production time, speed and percentage of a hectare 6. An Active ingredient converter that can be used to convert known rates to new rates with a higher or lower active ingredient.calculator. This will calculate Spraying speed, percentage of area spayed and production estimates for auditing and costing purposes. 7. A Chemical Quantity and Operational costs calculator that calculates all cost associated with any spraying operation. This can also be used as an auditing or budgeting calculator. 8. A Chemical whole units converter that presents two options. These options allow either the modification of the mix size or the modification of the volume output per hectare to match whole units of chemical. 9. A Help booklet that can be printed out or accessed with a short cut key. (Microsoft Word 97 minimum requirements.)

Organisation The Next Step Business Group
Contact Mr. David Montgomery
Phone (03) 5721 3320
Address 75 Green Street
Wangaratta VIC 3677
Organisation Toad Gully Growers
Phone (03) 5983 5688
Fax (03) 5983 1999
Email toadgully@peninsulastarway.net.au
Address RMB 6810
Balnarring VIC 3926
Profile

Specialising in the propagation, research and development of PAULOWNIA (Kiri) trees for supply to plantations for rapid production of high grade clear timber. Top genetics and unique and highly successful clonal propagation techniques.

Speciality

Nurseries - Forestry, Research & Development.