Forestry Memories

Planting trees on ploughing

Planting trees on ploughing

Date Added: 11 February 2011 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1972 Picture No: 850

Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory.

Unknown planter working on ploughed hillside at unknown location. He is busy inserting the roots of the Sitka spruce into the gap opened up by the spade in the plough furrow and will finish by stamping on the gap with his foot to close it.

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Groups: Forestry in Action, Tools, equipment and clothing

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This was a job made worse if the midges were out in force. Comment left on 13 July 2018 at 11:34 by Leslie Phillip
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