Lour Estate, Forfar 1968
Photograph courtesy of Leslie Phillip, Perth who comments:
‘Taking a break from first thinning's for a posed picture taken by the Head Forester at my request.’
It appears that Leslie is using quite a heavy axe for snedding first thinnings - possibly a 6lb Scottish Wedge axe?
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Would you believe its a light weight Swedish axe which replaced the ageing American Plumb used on the Estate a few years earlier.
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