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Timber harvesting machines in Forestry Commission area of Buchan Forest District, Aberdeenshire around about 1991-94. The main machines featured are Atlas/pika timber harvester, Kockums forwarders, Akerman/Lako Timber Harvester. See full details in Forestry Memories website Item No 4565. Video by Mike Bremner.

Video by Ian Knox of Forestry Commission staff and contractors quarrying rock and making a forest road on Mull. Also some views of timber harvesting

Forestry Commission Scotland led roads team making new forest roads in Ratagan and Glen Shiel Forests circa 1993. The operations were recorded by the late Ian Knox, machine operator. The video is courtesy of Martin Mackenzie.

This video was originally made by Alasdair MacKenzie of Loch Carron when he worked with the Forestry Commission on a site at Portclair Forest where a stand of very large Douglas fir planted in the 1920s was thinned. The trees were felled and processed as a special order by Egger UK Timber Company local manager John Paterson for sale to Cashwood Poles Limited in Ireland for transmission poles fo...

Thanks to Bill Mason, Argyll for this video of forestry operations, captured around 1970. The first stage shows ploughing, planting, and spraying, but by hand and by helicopter. Also shots of vehicles in action such as the flail swipe, mounted hydraulic tine plough, Muskeg transporter and a cross daring team in action in a crop of young trees.

Mr.Dugald Kennedy, Fort Augustus, explains the use of the rutter spade in forestry practice. Dougie Kennedy originally a Forest Craftsman at Glengarry Forest explains a little about how the large Rutter Spade was used. The operation of draining and providing a planting site on wet hillsides prior to the general use of forestry ploughs was an arduous task by hand and involved many forest workers...

Short very low resolution video of forestry operations in Dalavich, Argyll, featuring helicopter spreading fertiliser, log-hauling by crane, felling by chainsaw. The video is courtesy of Jas Duffy of Dalavich and features a number of forestry operations in what is assumed to be Forestry Commission forests in the Dalavich area.

Short video of the women of Dalavich cutting bracken and resting. The video is courtesy of Jas Duffy of Dalavich and features at least four ladies cutting bracken presumably weeding Forestry Commission trees on a hillside around about 1970.

Working horse video uploaded by Gordon Urquhart

Steep Ground Harvesting Lochaber 2nd half Video is courtesy of Forest Enterprise Scotland and features the Steep Ground Project team led by Kate Tuer. Kate explains that the aim of the project was to test and evaluate skyline systems and steep ground working techniques to establish the most efficient and cost effective timber production methods. The project was also tasked with providing facts,...

Steep Ground Harvesting Lochaber 1st half Video is courtesy of Forest Enterprise Scotland and features the Steep Ground Project team led by Kate Tuer. Kate explains that the aim of the project was to test and evaluate skyline systems and steep ground working techniques to establish the most efficient and cost effective timber production methods. The project was also tasked with providing facts,...

Loading Timber Lorry Inchnacardoch Forest 1981 This video sequence is part of a longer video made by Graham Whistler for Jim Pratt who was Harvesting Head Forester at Inchnacardoch at the time in 1981. See other clips on this site

Cable Crane extraction Inchnacardoch Forest 1981 This video sequence is part of a longer video made by Graham Whistler for Jim Pratt who was Harvesting Head Forester at Inchnacardoch at the time in 1981.

Forester Rick Hayes is bench felling on steep ground in Inchnacardoch Forest. This 2nd video was made by Graham Whistler for Jim Pratt who was Harvesting Head Forester at Inchnacardoch Forest at the time in 1981.

2 Rick Hayes Bench Felling swf file