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Toorongo. Mundic Creek, 1939. Salvage felling of fire killed Mountain Ash.

Erosion after forest fire

Dennis Pump purchased in the late 1940s from the United Kingdom, where they were used during World War 2.

Fire break burnt by bush fire brigades

Road making and fire-break building

A Cletrac Tractor with a small logging arch hauling log on snig track.

A 95HP tractor with angle-dozer road-making at Kiewa. Initial stage. SEC unit.

Forests Commission D7 crawler tractor with tree dozer. This unit clears trails of all vegetation, knocking over trees of up to 2' in diameter. The trail is first cleared by the machine which returns along its route and scoops the grass and surface…

Forests Commission D7 crawler tractor with tree dozer. This unit clears trails of all vegetation, knocking over trees of up to 2' in diameter. The trail is first cleared by the machine which returns along its route and scoops the grass and surface…

Caterpillar Diesel R.D.7. with Le Tourneau angledozer, widening a road near Salino, Canada. (Photo W.Adams)

Caterpillar Diesel 50, with bulldozer building a road 24 miles back into inaccessible mountain country Santa Barbara National Forest U.S.A. (Photo W. Adams)

This is most likely the fire tower on a hill south of Tanjil Bren.

Fire Tower Commission Design

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Water sprays in action Block 10. West Tanjil. Forests Commission Dump (Richards & Buzza)

Eucalyptus Regnans. Falling a tree.

Eucalyptus Regnans. Tree being felled (duplicate?)