Pointing round fence posts in Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of David Foot, Surrey.
A great action image of operator working as he points a four inch peeled round post on a McConnel saw bench. The versatile McConnel Saw bench has a FC number 5001 written on the frame and in Speymouth Forest reports elsewhere on this site the machine stock list for 1965 includes a saw bench and Cundey peeler.
The photograph gives a glimpse of a well organised timber processing yard designed to maximise the potential from local forest thinnings by converting the timber into round products such as peeled fence posts and strainers. There is no mention of a creosote treatment plant and they may have depended on using their lorries with Hiab hoists to take posts to local treatment works or used mainly larch products.
Can anyone name this worker and give a description of the processing yard and its location?
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