Log-hauler and workers, in bush land

Description

Two workmen and a woman at a milling point in the Apiti District. The portable steam engine driven winch, known as a log-hauler, hauled the logs from the bush to the tramline or bush railway, from where horses hauled the logs along the tramline to the sawmill.

Identification

Date

circa 1900 to circa 1910

Digitisation id

2007N_Ti47_TEC_1283

Held in

Coolstore