Riddoch’s Sawmill Mosstodloch?

Date Added: 11 February 2018 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1973 Picture No: 3861

Photograph is courtesy and copyright of Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Roslin, and provided with help from Glen Brearley. FR Photo number No A5317 but no date (estimated as 1973) or photographer recorded.

No information provided for these beautifully taken images. Can anyone confirm if this is Mosstodloch Sawmill, who are the machine operators and the products being cut?

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Groups: Forestry in Action, Northeast Scotland , Sawmills, pulp mills, chipboard mills

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Gordon Strachan sawmiller in Strachan's Mill Mosstodloch. Log haul took logs up to the rack bench where log was broken down for the re-saw. Shifts were worked for a number of years. Gordon's brother Zander was the sawmiller in charge of the other shift.
It took a squad of around 10 to operate the mill. Comment left on 15 July 2020 at 19:19 by Sandy Jamieson

All these photo's of sawmills reminds me of the bad weather days as a forester on Lour estate in the early sixties working as tails man on the circular saw bench and the hypnotic effect the large saw blade had on me, "that come closer if you'r that bored". Comment left on 18 July 2020 at 16:14 by leslie phillip

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