HEAVY LIFTING
+ HELI-LOGGING

Thumper has a maximum lift weight of 1800kg, and can hoist over half a tonne more than any other South Island-based helicopter.

Whether it’s an awkward load or a tricky location, we specialise in assessing and executing technically-challenging lifts.

Aside from providing “the grunt”, we bring decades of specialist lifting and long-lining expertise to every heli-logging and heavy lifting job, and offer end-to-end project management.

Our work’s included lifting maximum weight construction materials down the Marlborough Sounds, and precision placement at a hillside build, which featured on Grand Designs. Our team’s worked extensively on the West Coast’s Paparoa Track lifting machinery and construction materials, we’ve carefully removed fallen logs from amidst native forest, and lifted earthmoving equipment to and from otherwise-inaccessible sites.

We partner with other parties, too, to make big projects come together and succeed. For example, we collaborated with the forestry and milling sector in the wake of the Covid lockdown.

With Southern Heli LIft as project managers, our joint team felled and heli-logged around 3000 tonne of Douglas fir from the Bruce Stream plantation at Bealey Spur, near Arthur’s Pass. It was trucked out and delivered to several South Island sawmills, before being put to great use in the Kiwi building industry.

Thumper has a maximum lift weight of 1800kg, and can hoist over half a tonne more than any other South Island-based helicopter.

Whether it’s an awkward load or a tricky location, we specialise in assessing and executing technically-challenging lifts.

Aside from providing “the grunt”, we bring decades of specialist lifting and long-lining expertise to every heli-logging and heavy lifting job, and offer end-to-end project management.

Our work’s included lifting maximum weight construction materials down the Marlborough Sounds, and precision placement at a hillside build, which featured on Grand Designs. Our team’s worked extensively on the West Coast’s Paparoa Track lifting machinery and construction materials, we’ve carefully removed fallen logs from amidst native forest, and lifted earthmoving equipment to and from otherwise-inaccessible sites.

We partner with other parties, too, to make big projects come together and succeed. For example, we collaborated with the forestry and milling sector in the wake of the Covid lockdown.

With Southern Heli LIft as project managers, our joint team felled and heli-logged around 3000 tonne of Douglas fir from the Bruce Stream plantation at Bealey Spur, near Arthur’s Pass. It was trucked out and delivered to several South Island sawmills, before being put to great use in the Kiwi building industry.

AGRICULTURE
Southern Heli Lift’s rural roots run deep and strong.
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FIREFIGHTING
Our aerial firefighting experience includes some of the largest wildfires in our country’s recent history.
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HELI-MULCHING
We operate the only heli-mulcher in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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SAFETY
Our rigorous commitment to, and investment in, safety – both in the air and on the ground – is uncompromising.
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NEWSROOM
Your bird’s-eye view: We enjoy keeping our clients, project partners, suppliers, and other friends of our company up to date, providing an informative, interesting, and spectacularly scenic window to our work.
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WELCOME
The Southern Heli Lift story begins with one of aviation’s legendary workhorses: the Bell UH-1L – an Iroquois or “Huey”, as it’s better known.
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AGRICULTURE

Southern Heli Lift’s rural roots run deep and strong.
LEARN MORE

FIREFIGHTING

Our aerial firefighting experience includes some of the largest wildfires in our country’s recent history.
LEARN MORE

HELI-MULCHING

We operate the only heli-mulcher in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
LEARN MORE

SAFETY

Our rigorous commitment to, and investment in, safety – both in the air and on the ground – is uncompromising.
LEARN MORE

NEWSROOM

Your bird’s-eye view: We enjoy keeping our clients, project partners, suppliers, and other friends of our company up to date, providing an informative, interesting, and spectacularly scenic window to our work.
LEARN MORE

WELCOME

The Southern Heli Lift story begins with one of aviation’s legendary workhorses: the Bell UH-1L – an Iroquois or “Huey”, as it’s better known.
LEARN MORE

CONTACT US

CHIEF PILOT | DARREN DAVISON

CHIEF EXECUTIVE | LYNDA DAVISON

The Black Hangar
Rangiora Airfield
Merton Road
Rangiora
Canterbury, 7471

We'd love to hear from you.

CHIEF PILOT
DARREN DAVISON

Phone 027 243 6141
darren@southernhelilift.co.nz

CHIEF EXECUTIVE
LYNDA DAVISON

Phone 027 632 2893
lynda@southernhelilift.co.nz

The Black Hangar
Rangiora Airfield
Merton Road
Rangiora
Canterbury, 7471

We'd love to hear from you.

CHIEF PILOT | DARREN DAVISON

CHIEF EXECUTIVE | LYNDA DAVISON

The Black Hangar
Rangiora Airfield
Merton Road
Rangiora
Canterbury, 7471

We'd love to hear from you.

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