In East Woodlands Nursery - Kirkhill Forest
The photograph is courtesy of Peter White (Perth) and Bill Sinclair (Turriff).
A good image of the trestles holding the lining out boards – a very practical design from lots of experience. The right hand side of the trestles hold all the empty boards that have to be filled. On the left the current board has being filled in situ by hand and waiting to be picked up and taken to the line. Note the two pieces of wood projecting upwards at a bit of an angle which supports the open hinged half of the lining out board while the lower half is being filled by hand with young seedlings. Once filled, as here, the top half is swung down and sandwiches the seedlings trapping them in their spaced filled positions especially so when the ring locks are slid down the long hinges.
The screen shelters the workers standing filling the boards and reduces the drying out of the seedlings. Jim Murray is coming to collect the board and behind him can be seen the nursery tractor and plough, In a further distance is a large house – East Woodlands?
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