Photograph taken in July 1898 (Source: P Langley) : "Log Yard, Yarrawonga."
Photograph probably taken late 1800s - early 1900s (Source: FCRPA) : Wattle bark stripped to be used to produce tannin.
Photograph date and location unknown but probably late 1800s to early 1900s (Source: P Langley) - Original owned by HD Ingle (former FCV Commissioner) passed on to FCV by his son HB Ingle (Forest Supervisor) : Splitting palings in Mountain Ash.
Photograph probably taken in the late 1800s to early 1900s (Source: FCRPA) : Stripping wattle bark
Photograph probably from about 1908-1909 (Source: Stephen Watson - Moe Walhalla Railway Museum Collection, Erica) : 200 sleepers awaiting collection on the Walhalla Railway
Photograph probably from about 1908-1909 (Source: Stephen Watson - Moe Walhalla Railway Museum Collection, Erica) : Sleepers cutters with the tools of their trade
Photograph taken in 1928 (Source: CHG Pavey & S Gillespie) : Falling mountain ash at Mt Horsfall. Paling splitters before there was any sawmill logging in the area. Note the "chip" taken out, above the cutter's heads, to prove the tree suitable for palings
Photograph probably taken in 1928 (Source: CHG Pavey & S Gillespie) : Log truck, possibly at Woohlpooer. Identified as Standard Sentinel steam wagon owned by Rowe's, sawmillers from Woohlpooer
Photograph possibly taken in the 1930s near the FCV's Wellsford eucalyptus oil plant (Source:FCRPA) : Eucalyptus foliage harvesting for oil extraction
Photograph possibly taken in the 1930s near the FCV's Wellsford eucalyptus oil plant (Source:FCRPA) : Transport of eucalyptus foliage harvested for oil extraction
Photograph possibly taken in the 1930s near the FCV's Wellsford eucalyptus oil plant (Source:FCRPA) : Transport of eucalyptus foliage harvested for oil extraction
Photograph possibly taken in the 1930s at the FCV's Wellsford eucalyptus oil plant (Source:FCRPA) : Charge of eucalyptus foliage for the still
Photograph taken in the late 1930s-early 1940s (Source: I Hastings) : Allan Hastings (r) & cousin, Scrapper Osler - log preparation near Old Sale Rd, Shady Creek
Photograph taken in about 1940 (Source: FCRPA) : 1939 salvage logging
Photograph taken in about 1940 (Source: FCRPA) : 1939 salvage logging
Photograph taken in April 1941 (Source: FCRPA) : 1939 salvage logging - Walker's TD18 in the West Tanjil Catchment
Photograph taken in January 1941 (Source: FCRPA) : 1939 salvage logging - TD35 in the Thomson Catchment
Photograph probably taken about 1945 (Source: FCRPA) : 1939 salvage logging
Photograph taken in March 1946 (Source:FCRPA): East Tanjil Catchment
Photograph taken by VP Cleary in 1950 (Source: G Cleary) : Log landing at a winch site on Wild Dog Creek Road, Otways
Photograph taken at Orbost in the early 1950s by JA McKinty (Source: M McKinty) : "A demand for 100-foot poles for ... Woomera ... resulted in a search of the valleys near Mount Kuark. In a regrowth ... stand of E. muelleriana, two poles were cut - 110 feet and 120 feet - and ... taken ... to Woomera where they propped an atomic device in the air and were subsequently vaporised." Old Forests. JA McKinty, 1996.
Photograph taken at Orbost in the early 1950s by JA McKinty (Source: M McKinty) : "A demand for 100-foot poles for ... Woomera ... resulted in a search of the valleys near Mount Kuark. In a regrowth ... stand of E. muelleriana, two poles were cut - 110 feet and 120 feet - and ... taken ... to Woomera where they propped an atomic device in the air and were subsequently vaporised." Old Forests. JA McKinty, 1996.
Photograph taken in 1954 at Thomas's sawmill in the Portland Shire (Source: G Kerr) : A 72ft long sawlog - believed to be the largest delivered to a mill in the Shire.
Photograph taken about 31/08/1956 (Source: FCRPA) : One of two 100ft poles cut for the CRB from forest east of Orbost on Joe de Piazza's truck.
Photograph taken by JD Gillespie about 1959 (Source: S Gillespie) : Log truck, Main Rd, Powelltown. Logs like these were coming from areas unburnt in the 1939 fires within the Ada River catchment.
Photograph taken by JD Gillespie about 1959 (Source: S Gillespie) : Log truck, Main Rd, Powelltown. In the photo is "Tim" Timoney who undertook storeman and log checking duties for the FCV in Powelltown
Photograph taken in 1959 (Source: FCRPA) : Cutting sleepers with a broad axe - Mount Taylor
Photograph probably taken about 1960 (Source: JD Gillespie & S Gillespie) : Timber Jack trials - Upper Yarra Forest District
Photograph probably taken about 1960 (Source: JD Gillespie & S Gillespie) : Timber Jack trials - Upper Yarra Forest District
Photograph taken in 1970 (Source: FCV) : Bluey Williams falling a Shining Gum on the Errinundra Plateau
Photograph taken in 1976 (Source: JD Gillespie) : Swing saw fence post production in PX area, Heywood FD
Photograph taken at a Woodend Sawmill in September 2021 (Source: D Endacott) : Redwood sawlogs from the FCV Aire Valley plantings of the late 1920s - early 1930s. "Specialty timber products have been cut from Sequoia sawlogs for many years now starting with the 1929 plantings at Depplers Creek." Roger Smith, September 2021