Hand Draining at Barracks, Rannoch Forest c1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory.
Hard at the hand draining at Barracks, Rannoch Forest is Eddie Brady on the rutter spade and Fred Mackay (next to camera)on the drain drag.
Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Groups of people, Tools, equipment and clothing
Group: Gale 1953 - 66 pictures
2 Comments
Piece work was a pound a chain. They got a easy bit!
Comment left on 10 February 2011 at 16:58 by Tony Turner
Panmure Estate in the 1970s kept a man on a permanent bases maintaining ditches in the extensive forests which became a nightmare for the forwarder driver trying to get across them. with a full load of pulp wood
Comment left on 27 May 2017 at 15:07 by Leslie Phillip
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