Loading Timberjack onto lorry
Photograph is courtesy of John Ireland, who is currently based at Lochaber Forest District.
Driver of Timberjack, Dougie (Shenner) MacDonald, is carrying out the delicate task of loading the machine onto the sloping platform of the Brimec lorry bed. Always a tricky task as more than half the Timberjack tyre width is over the edge on both sides. Lorry driver Martin Mackenzie is guiding Dougie so that he is placed inch perfect on the lorry bed this being more critical the higher up the platform.
The Brimec lorry platform systems were a very convenient system of loading and dropping off machines without the need for loading platforms. There was a draw back with the wider base wheel and tyre machines as they did not fit well on the lorry and could slip off when loading.
The office desk apparently was being shifted from Fort Augustus to an office further west (Balmacara?) for use by Grant Macintosh.
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Groups: Forestry in Action, Other Vehicles and Machines, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes