Cable Crane skyline extraction of pole length timber

Date Added: 19 March 2021 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1975 Picture No: 5079

The image is from a collection of slides and photographs ‘rescued from the skip’ and handed to Forestry Memories. Generally very little information with or about them and for details we will have to rely on readers’ memories or geographical knowledge.

The red coloured safety hat and the radio loudspeaker point to this being a Forestry Commission operation. The cable crane may well be a Chapelhall Engineering Workshop production of a British Leyland Tractor married to an Igland double drum winch. Can anyone confirm? Can the operator be identified?

Any information and comments very welcome.

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Groups: Forestry in Action, Mystery and unknown, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes

2 Comments

Looks like a Ford 3000 going by the round mudguards,and an Igland 4000 double drum winch.
Can't make out the operator. Comment left on 21 March 2021 at 22:06 by Robert Hannah

If we knew location and year might be able to name operator Comment left on 27 March 2021 at 11:35 by william bell

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