Timber harvesting team 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.
Some of the Monaughty Forest timber team setting up the Liner saw bench to cross cut the lengths of smaller diameter Scots pine lying in the back ground. The Liner saw bench table has been strengthened with support brackets fitted below and onto the body uprights.
The team members have been named from the left as:
J McLeod
Jim Farquharson
Canny Younie
W Paterson
Jack Farquharson with the standard type bike of its day.
The man in the back ground could be R Grant
Any comments and more first names would be very welcome
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Groups of people, Northeast Scotland , Sawmills, pulp mills, chipboard mills