They invented a complex and robust underwater harvester, and had to find workers with unique skills, as well as manoeuvring through a lot of red tape."We had to do the feasibility study, design the equipment, build it, find our fantastic staff that run the operation, work out how to drive the timber, how to market it and keep it going into the market.""I think one of the biggest learnings I've had, is business takes time," Mr Morgan said.
They needed a new idea and as luck would have it, Mr Wise, a pilot, spotted it when he was flying out of the north-west one day. "[We] had a look at what they were doing in Canada with the same use of timbering drowned, in hydro lakes fundamentally. Then we started looking at the feasibility of doing it in Tasmania, and nearly 10 years later, here we are."Tasmania has a long history in the forest industry and was one of the pioneers in hardwood plantation development.Mr Wise and Mr Morgan said that was their point of difference: they use a product that would otherwise go to waste.
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