TD9 angle bladed dozer Glengarry Forest 1955
Photographs courtesy of Brian Patience with help from Don MacLeman, Newnham. Photographs were taken by John Patience (Uncle of Brian) who was a forester at Glengarry at the time. John, originally from Avoch, trained at Glentress Forester Training School and was posted as a newly qualified forester to Mull in 1951, onwards to Glengarry in 1955, Queens in 1957 and then as Head Forester to Broadford, Skye around 1960 where he worked until he retired in 1990.
This machine was hired from Scottish Land Development Corporation (SLDC) by the FC and operator was a W. Campbell.
Don MacLeman comments ‘I have firsthand knowledge of such dozers being hired as I remember a similar dozer on hire from SLDC at South Strome Forest back in 1950/51’.
In this case it is difficult to see what the machine is working on whether it is a new road or track or even a fire trace to protect the new plantation. It is just possible to be the latter.