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Restock Seminar Ft Augustus

Restock Seminar Ft Augustus

Date Added: 02 November 2016 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1986 Picture No: 3432

Photograph is courtesy of John Ireland, who is currently based at Lochaber Forest District.

One of the field seminars to update front line staff on latest thinking on felled site cultivation systems and planting methods.

Up until this point the main tools available for cultivation was either the very large and heavy D7 tractor and mounted restock plough or a wheeled tractor with scarifier discs fitted on the back. These were suitable for drier pine typical sites but wetter spruce sites had to be planted without any cultivation until the advent of the mounding excavator which came to the forefront in the late 1970s. During the 1980s the systems of mounding was developed and further refined as excavators were further developed and tooled up and work studied.

The people present have been numbered and some named as follows:

1. John Keenleyside (Forest Research or Inverness Forest District)
2. Mike Green (suggested re comments below)
3. Roy Harvey (District Forester – Buchan Forest District)
4. ?
5. David Tracy (Dave) (Research Forester - Silv(N) Research Outstation, Cairnbaan, Argyll)
6. ?
7. Ron Marnie (Forest District Manager- Buchan Forest District)
8. John Drummond (Suggested re comments below)
9. Arkle Fraser (Forest District Manager – Dornoch Forest District)
10. ?
11. ?
12. Bob Smith (District Forester - Fort Augustus Forest District)
13. Gordon Paterson (Forest Research – Edinburgh)
14. Norman Davidson (District Forester – Dornoch Forest District)
15. ?

More names would be very welcome.

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8 Comments

I think No.2 is Mike Green, recently retired. He was assistant DO at Buchan District at the time. Comment left on 23 September 2018 at 16:27 by Ronald MARNIE
I think No.11 could be David Robertson Chief Forester Skye and is No.8 John Drumond ? Comment left on 24 September 2018 at 14:17 by Frank Thom
Yes, Frank. No.8 is John Drummond for sure. Not sure about No.11 Comment left on 24 September 2018 at 17:21 by Ronald MARNIE
I perhaps that No.6 could be Sandy Calder Comment left on 25 September 2018 at 19:38 by Frank Thom
Aye Frank, having had a wee look, do you no think that No.6 is Dave Tracy, Research Forester at Cairnbaan Silv(N) Research Outstation? AMENDED 27/09/2018

Please accept my apologies Frank, I misread in my haste No.5 and No.6, I do not know whether No.6 is Sandy Calder or David Paterson. However, I suspect from the stature of the man, the hat and the thinning crown it more likely to be David Paterson, Forest Research - Edinburgh. Comment left on 25 September 2018 at 23:53 by Bill Rayner
No 6 looks the same shape as Davie Paterson? Could he have been there do you think? Comment left on 26 September 2018 at 17:19 by Ronald MARNIE
I have contacted No.5 Dave Tracy, Research Forester at Cairnbaan Silv(N) Research Outstation, Argyll. He confirms that he is No.5 in the image. Comment left on 27 September 2018 at 09:37 by Bill Rayner
No.2 is Mike Green. He joined the FC's district office in Perth as a new district officer in the late 1970s. I was an area land agent based in that office at the time. Comment left on 17 October 2018 at 12:23 by Charles Dickens
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