Video - 25 metre Transmission poles to Irleland
This video was originally made by Alasdair MacKenzie of Loch Carron when he worked with the Forestry Commission on a site at Portclair Forest where a stand of very large Douglas fir planted in the 1920s was thinned.
The trees were felled and processed as a special order by Egger UK Timber Company, local manager John Paterson, for sale to Cashwood Poles Limited in Ireland as transmission poles for the electricity services. They were shipped by MV Celebrity from Corpach, near Fort William (note Ben Nevis in back ground), to Dundalk in southern Ireland.
The bark was bought by Ramsey MacDonell, Morayshire, for use in the in the horticulture industry, for flower displays such as final day at Wimbledon and pot puri manufacture.
David Grant, Beauly, had the contract to fell, peel bark and extract timber to roadside using a Timber Jack skidder. The 300 finished poles lengths were in the region 20-25 metres long with a volume averaging out at 2.5 m³ each. No information is available on the clam bunk loader and name of operator who loads the poles onto G G and D F Turnbull lorries with special extending rear steering trailers that extended out to 65 feet.
The video tape transfer to digital technology was organised by Grant Macintosh, Special Projects Manager, Forestry Commission, who also provide the voice over of details and information.
Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Ships, boats and sea transport, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes, Timber lorries and loaders