David Phillip working Lour Estate Sawmill

Date Added: 18 August 2015 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1966 Picture No: 2982

Photograph courtesy of Leslie Phillip, Perth and shows his father
David Phillip working on Lour Estate, Forfar, Angus around 1966
operating the manual feed sawmill.

The timber was cut into 2inch x 1.5inch x four feet long for air ducting under bulk potatoes stored in the estate farm sheds.

Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Sawmills, pulp mills, chipboard mills

3 Comments

Working as a tails man on this saw and being so close to that blade I was glad of the riving knife between it and my hands, the same applied when driving in a wedge with a wooden mallet. Comment left on 26 June 2016 at 22:02 by Leslie Phillip

Note one of the the air ducts being used as a safety gaurd at the front of the sawdust pit. Comment left on 24 August 2016 at 17:10 by Leslie Phillip

A four feet long cut in my opinion was too risky for this size of blade and power, Your fingers could get real close to that blade. Comment left on 13 April 2019 at 23:20 by leslie phillip

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