Harvesting machinery demonstration Monaughty
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.
Early days of attempts to bring in a variety of mechanised felling and tree processing machines which could be suitable for Scottish forest conditions. This is a view of the boom of a Kockums GP felled tree processor (stroke delimber)in the throes of stripping the branches off and cross cutting a tree stem.
The other three views in the PDF show a bit more of the machine which did work quite successfully in this Scotland’s forests for a period.
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, George Dey Forestry Collection, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes