Lour Estate 1968
Photograph courtesy of Leslie Phillip, Perth who comments:
‘First thinning larch trees crosscut and pointed on the McConnell saw for sheep stakes and scare fences, the latter consisting of two barbed wires against drystane dyking. Note the railway sleeper's in the background. Hundreds were used on extensive fencing projects on the estate at this time. Double sleepers were nailed together to hang fifteen feet gates made by the firm Gush and Dent.’
Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action
Year 1911 - 2 pictures
3 Comments
The "penthouse" that has been added on to the building is a feature that appeared in the 60's when barns were converted for bulk drying and storage of grain from combine harvesters.It housed the bucket elevator to take the grain to the peak and feed in to a conveyor to fill drying bins along the barn. In recent times bulk grain is often dried with a heavy duty drive-over ventilated floor system which is also used for drying wood chips and heated by wood fired boilers.
Comment left on 12 February 2017 at 10:13 by Alasdair Cameron
The grain dryer in the background was built in the early 1960s by Reekie engineering Forfar, the brickwork by Webster & Patullo of Kingsmuir, if I remember correctly it had problems from the start with flooding during heavy rain and was later abandoned.
Comment left on 12 February 2017 at 16:34 by
Gush and Dent the Gate makers came from Alresford Hampshire packed up mid to late 80's
Comment left on 16 February 2017 at 23:44 by Ian Hampshire
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