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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

Object type
Image
Date
circa 1900 to circa 1910
Digitisation ID
2007N_Ti47_TEC_1283
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
bush felling,
technology,
timber,
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