Loch Ard Forest — Bitmac surfacing of road
Photograph is courtesy and copyright of Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Roslin, and provided with help from Glen Brearley. FR Photo number No B6934 taken by T K Evans /JBE.
‘Surfacing a main forest access road’. Can anyone be recognised? Is that the local forester watching?
This writer recalls a section of road in Glenhurich forest being surfaced with Bitmac at around this time. The main aim was to try and establish the comparative costs of laying the Bitmac with that of repeated maintenance of a similar section of gravel road.
The following three images in the PDF give other views of the operation and people.
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