Forestry Memories

Ditching and drains maintenance Dunira near Comrie.

Photograph courtesy of John Burrow, Perth.
A ditching operation on a fairly recently planted Economic Forestry Group site at Dunira near Comrie. The operator was Stewart MacDonald of Thornhill and that the Hitachi UH031 excavator was believed to be operator owned.

Note the V shaped ditching bucket with extended side cutting ‘wings’ to create a smooth sided deeper drain. In some cases these side ‘wings’ were made from the very hard metal from used dozer blade lower edges.

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