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Caterpillar D7 85HP crawler tractor with tree dozer attachment. Cable-operated. First of its kind in the Commonwealth. Weight 16 ton. Would build on the average 2 mile of track 10' wide per day. Owned by Forests Commission

Forests Commission 95HP Cletrac with angledozer constructing a fire line in fire-killed ash, East Tanjil

Peat Bog on Fire, Western District

Bush regeneration after fire

Mountain Ash forest

Virgin Forest

Graph relating temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, rel. moisture content, % of hazard stick during month of March, 1949. Erica

Forest denudation

Dumping No 3 winch Richards and Buzza 1942. East Tanjil Reserve

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)