Head Forester measuring tree
The photograph is courtesy of the family of George Dey. George took many forestry photographs in his forestry career and some are now shown on this web site.
Duncan Macdougall, Inverinan, believes this could be Bob Crozier who was Head Forester at Inverliever until March 1959 as per notes in George Dey’s diary.
The tape is a quarter girth inch measurement and reads 12ΒΌ which if converted to normal circumference would read 49 inches. The author would need to refresh his memory on the origins of this type of measurement but the quarter of the girth conveniently indicated the maximum side dimension of a squared baulk that could be milled out of the round log. Hence in this case at the point of measurement a 12 inch square baulk could be cut. But there is much more to this system of measurement and will be dealt with elsewhere.
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