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	Heritage North
	1969

Forestry Marking Tool or Scriber

Used for marking trees selected for felling. The pint was used as a pivot for making circles and semi-circles, while the blade made straight lines. Is there a local or universal code? Is it still used? When did it all out of use?

Alasdair Cameron tells us how he came about it.
"I was given it by the late James Reid of Bridgend,Dingwall, who would select standing hardwood on Tulloch Estate, and the estate woodsmen would cut it down with two man crosscut saw,ready to be transported to the Reid's roller bench.No cranes involved,just ropes,pulleys,skids.
Two generations of the Reid family were Millwrights in Dingwall working in metal and wood.The products were mostly Agricultural Threshing Mills and grain processing such as water and electric powered meal mills.They made a lot of sawmill equipment during two world wars for the Canadian and Newfoundland Timber Corps for mills from Carr Bridge to Golspie."
Picture Added on 30 June 2008.

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