Cablecrane course Glengarry Forest
The photograph is courtesy of the family of George Dey. George took many forestry photographs in his forestry career and many are now shown on this web site. Check under ‘Groups’ and George Dey Collection.
The photograph and the one in the PDF shows a typical forest road side where cable cranes are working. The plantation has been thinned by men felling the trees, snedding and cross cutting them manually. The fellers have also stacked the pulp wood products into load size heaps ready for the winch choker man. The heaps of timber on the top side of the road show that the area above the road has been thinned and extracted. The PDF shows the wider scene with winch at a new un-extracted rackway ready to start operations. The timber pile nearest the camera has been segregated into neatly stacked pulp wood in front and random piled saw logs at the back. Shortage of stacking room was always a problem with this type of cable crane and in longer racks it was essential that timber lorries arrived regularly to clear the stacks behind the winch. This usually involved driving the tractors forward over to the very edge of the lower side of the road with their front wheels hanging in the air. Keeping the haul back cable taught allowed this to do be done reasonably safely.
In this photograph the carriage is the more normal yellow colour. Any stories about working this type of cable cranes would be very welcome.
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, George Dey Forestry Collection, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes