Sawmill site in Monaughty Forest, Morayshire
The photographs are courtesy of Myra Younie, Clerical/Admin Officer at Laigh of Moray Forest and Moray Forest District, who maintained forestry photograph albums over several years.
This image from a saved magazine cutting provides no indication of the year but estimated at around 1955 and features a sawmill and its sawn products stacked high in the forest.
The saw appears to be a single roller bench model probably powered by a diesel engine. A spare saw blade is seen inside the shed on the front right. It is difficult to identify the range of products but some look to be quite sizable dimensions around 9 x 3in. The old Fordson tractor is being unloaded and it may well be Danny Younie that is one of the men loading up the log ramp.
Any information on the actual location and the range of years this sawmill was located in the forest would be very welcome.
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Groups of people, Northeast Scotland , Sawmills, pulp mills, chipboard mills, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes