Forestry Memories

Angus Ross on Lairg to Rosehall Road

Photograph courtesy of Martin Mackenzie, Balloch, Inverness, and is of Forestry Commission Lairg Workshop mechanic Angus Ross on way out to Benmore Forest with Martin Mackenzie (and his lorry) to start a D4 ploughing tractor and take it back to the workshop for repair.

Angus is driving his Ford Transit make mechanics van through the aftermath of a heavy snow fall in 1985. The weather stayed relatively calm for a number of weeks but was very cold and the temperature in Lairg did not lift above minus 6 degrees centigrade for much of that time.

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Groups: Caithness and Sutherland, Other Vehicles and Machines

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