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Dumping of salvage felled log after fires in 1940. The logs have been placed by a 35 hp tractor. The contractors were Richards and Buzza. Block 10. West Tanjil

One of the Forests Commission of Victoria log Dumps. This one is at Bell's break, Thomson. G. H. Wilkinson's area.

The logs are from Mountain Ash killed in the 1939 fires.

This is the layout and terms used for the ropes and equipment used with a logging winch.

These are the water tanks used for a steam engine at an unknown sawmill with an unidentified person.

Strahan and Davies Mill West Tanjil, the photo is either after the 1926 or 1939 fires.

Cook at Delatite Camp (M.B. Water Supply)

Forestry Company men on the job. England

Initial bench breakout for Road Construction as left by Bulldozer and ready for the grader. Neerim District

Eucalyptus Regnans Sherbrooke , girth 53' coloured slide

A Selector cutting posts for fencing

Old Style fencing

This is a diagram of the process and path for a haulage Track distribution system.

This is the diagram for the North Bend Skyline and High Lead Logging system.

This is a close up of a log that has been brought to the train line by horse teams. The worker is removing the large nails used to fix the log fro dragging by the team.

Powelltown tramway c1916 "Powellite" loading logs from landing serviced by a horse drawn tramway on the line up to the Bump prior to the construction of the Big Bridge. (See page 30 of book Powelltown published by LRRSA)

Loading logs from trawler to mill

Part of logging and loading, rig in ash country. Thomson Valley

A caterpillar D6 tractor using a winch to haul logs into a sawmill.

Timber destruction following repeated fires on the Tooronga Plateau, Neerim District.

A Caterpillar D4 tractor in Britain. These were used by the Forests Commission of Victoria in the 1940s.