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These photos represent images of the history of logging in the forests of Tasmania and other states from as far back as the early 1900's to the present day.

HOW THE INDUSTRY BEGAN
Arve Valley Approx 1920 Catamaran Area 1905 - Log hauler working in the Catamaran area Florentine Valley Area - A rigger is climbing the tall timber Hobart Wharf 1920's Large redgum near the Murray River NSW - Cedar getters NSW - Small bullock team in operation Scottsdale - Bullock Team Steam powered log hauler Railway with spur lines of timber rails in North East Tasmania Water powered sawmill Huon Timber Company - Log loading and 9 inch rail wheel line NSW - Sleeper cutting Axemen in 1905 Cutting Sleepers Giant boiler and steam log hauler in North East Tasmania Florentine Valley Area - Tree felling in progress Huon Timber Company Sawmill - Early model drag saw in action NSW - Bullock team on the way to the mill Huon Timber Company - Trestle bridge for the tram line Huon Timber Company's tramroad near Geeveston NSW - Saw log inspector on site at a logging operation NSW Mt Warning - Bullock team working Barring and broad axing of logs Battery Point - Risby Bros Mill 1844 Bridport - Cut timber being carted by 6 horse team Burnie - loading sawn timber for export Chesterman and Co's Raminea Mill Dover Wharf - The tram line ran for a distance of 3 miles Early model electric chainsaw in operation at a sawmill Esperance Area 1900 - TT Company's log hauler Florentine Valley - Dozer pulling logs to the landing Florentine Valley Geeveston - Building the railway for Huon Timber Company Geeveston Area - Typical bush tramway Gray Brothers Burny Island - Squaring of logs Hastings Area 1890 - Typical haulage carriage way Huon Timber Company - Log loading and 9 inch rail wheel line Huon Timber Company's Railway near Geeveston 1920's Jetsonville - Frank Diprose and his workers producing timber Leprena Area 1930 - Amos Wolf is standing on a log Log sawers in operation NSW Laurieton - Longworth's Steam engine crossing a log bridge John Geeves Bush Area - Logging operation in progress Mill Workers NSW - Sleeper cutting NSW - Wip, Herb, Stan, Tom & their mother at a scrub clearing TFCA Images TFCA Images Ramanea Sawmill Bridge 1912 - Tom, Jack, Ted & Bill Bardner Ramanea Steam Sawmill - The sawmill and the adjacent manage Roadworks Shoeing the tree in preparation for falling Southern Tasmania - Hauling logs to the sawmills Squaring up Beams for Tram Tracks Steam boiler and its steam winch on a portable frame work skid Strapping together of Huon Pine logs near Strahan Tree felling in the Huon area Tree felling operation

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1960 - 1970 ANM
A load of logs in the Florentine Valley Loading logs on the Florentine road near the settlement with a Skagit loader operated by Rex Flakemore Load of sawlogs in the Gordon Skagit loader in the Florentine Maxidine Mack with sawlogs Mack and a Pacific log truck parked at the gap R Model Mack 50-ton load, driver Peter (Bulldog) Stevens Letourneau wheel loader Maydena yard The Letourneau wheel loader R Model Mack at the Repulse 009 Madil cable logging machine Florentine Valley Cat 988 unloading logs at the Maydena yard Unloading logs at the Maydena yard, with a Letourneau wheel loader Load of sawlogs in the Gordon Loading logs under transmission lines in the Styx with a Cat 988 New R Model Mack, Mack factory Brisbane R Model Mack Florentine Valley Load of sawlogs in the Gordon Load of logs coming out of the Gordon Ken Reynold’s Mack trucks waiting to be loaded in the Florentine The “gap” in the Florentine road in the snow A Mack Maxidine load of sawlogs at Maydena Tri Drive R model Mack Western Australia Machinery expo at Myrtleford Loading Logs in the Florentine with a Madil loader Loading Cat D8 on the float 250 international track loader at Tarraleah Mack on the Clear Hill road in the Gordon Cat D8 A.N.M float weighed 17 ton 745 Allis Charmers Wheel loader unloading logs Cat D8 working in the Florentine 50-ton load in the Maydena yard Cat 988 loading logs in the Styx transmission line Cat 988 unloading logs at the Maydena yard Cat 988 Wheel loader unloading logs, Marshalling yard Maydena Mack factory Brisbane International truck factory Geelong Changing tyres at Reynold’s Maydena workshopLog wash at Myadena yard
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CONTRACTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Valmet 475 Harvester Tony Bennett and Minister Bryan Green discussing the fundamentals of Cable Harvesting Valmet 445 Harvester Howard Comes to Town Oct 2004 and 256 Trucks roll into Launceston PL & TJ Page Pty Ltd Hitachi 240L Zaxis Exc Oakley Cat D7H forming Class 3 Forestry Road Muskett Timbco 820-D loading pine in Derwent Valley Komatsu PC270-7 and Waratah processor Kenworth Samjack Pty Ltd Komatsu PC228USF - Waratah Processor Kenworth loading at landing Kenworth loaded bound for town Kenworth in action North West Coast Goeff Muskett explains the capabilities and limitations of mechanical sawlog processing Elphinstone Tri , Tri B-Double unloaded Elphinstone Jinker folded on Kenworth Elphinstone 'Fold A Skell' DJ and SG Beaumont Pty Ltd - Hitachi and Logs Dave Wagner Pty Ltd on the dirt Dave Wagner Pty Ltd Employee completing mandatory load check A 428D Backhoe placing galv culvert pipes in Forestry Class 3 Road Cat 140G Grader conducting road maintenance Andrew Lette Pty Ltd Cat 322 and Processor Aprin Pty Ltd being Loaded by Muskett Operation in Derwent Valley Aprin Pty Ltd Quad loaded with pine logs TFCA Cable Harvesting Forwader loading ETF timber Harback new Kenworth Harvesting Landing Madill and Kenworth Madill Cable Madill over Lake Gordon Mark Walkden and KenworthTFCA

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