Clearing up at Castle Fraser — Gale 1953
This Aberdeen Journals Photograph is courtesy of Aberdeen Journals and Forestry Commission, Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District who hold the image.
A team of men from Castle Fraser Estate working on a large beech with variety of powered chain saws. Note the large hand felling saw lying on the log beside the jackets on the right.
Can anyone name the types and models of the saws?
Can the men be named?
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Gale 1953, Groups of people, Northeast Scotland , Other Vehicles and Machines
2 Comments
Think how back in the day when it would take nearly half a day to fell a 200 year old oak tree with two men and a crosscut saw, "like trying to cut through the pillars of Rome."
Comment left on 19 June 2016 at 17:52 by Leslie Phillip
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The men nearest the photographer are operating a Teles two-man saw!
The man on the right is holding the engine on a frame with two wheel barrow-like shafts, his mate is holding the handle that is guiding the nose of the long blade. Further down the log, another man is snedding off branches with a more usual chain saw, possibly a JO-BU. Comment left on 24 November 2014 at 18:16 by Ian Cameron, mobile mechanic dunkeld 1962/1070.