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	Norman Davidson
	1980

Felling trees in Gartly Moor Forest

Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish who is in action felling a thinning rack in Gartly Moor in 1980.
Rack ways 4 metres wide located about 20 metres or so appart were felled in a plantation to allow forwarders access into the forest to pick up timber felled by chainsaw operators (fellers). The fellers partially cut the rackways and then thinned out the trees on either side before continuing with the next section of the rackway which could be several hundred metres long. It was often a difficult process to thin the trees in between the racks because the dense branches would not allow the trees to fall easily and they had sometimes to be pulled by hand backwards quite long distances.
Picture Added on 05 September 2007.

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