sika
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I nearly have my own chain mill up and running. Using a MS660 mag with 36" bar on a 36" Alaskin. Looking forward to getting into some timber. More on that later.
I found some old historic pictures of kauri tree milling in the Waitakere ranges area, in particular Huia. Quite a lot of photos actually. Thought I would upload some so you'all could see how us kiwis did it back in the day.
My initial quest was related to some sort of jack in order to get big logs off the ground, which is when my father said try and find an old timber jack. Apparently an item that was invented in NZ for just that job. This first pic shows each of the men using one to lift a big kauri barrel.
No chainsaws in those days!!
An extract form Te Huia Tours webiste below
...between 1850 - 1930 Huia was the centre of the Kauri tree felling industry. Early industrial settlers eager to work and make a new future in New Zealand worked long hard days doing back breaking work in the surrounding hills and valleys of Huia, cutting down the tall straight Kauri trees that would fetch a good price when sold due to the strong and durable nature of the Kauri wood.
Unfortunately most of the Kauri trees in New Zealand where cut down during the Kauri milling periods. The wood was sent to either Auckland for building new homes for the steady growing population or sent to England. Sadly no one at the time was concerned with the irreversible effect of cutting down some of the oldest, largest trees in the world, and eventually destroying an entire eco system. New Zealand once had over 1200,000 hectares of Kauri trees, now there is less than 0.3 present of these proud trees left standing. Luckily there are still some impressive Kauri trees still living in and around Huia and the Waitakere ranges.
I have a lot of these pics if anyone is interested I will upload more.
Here is a pic of 3 gents holding their jacks
Good to see pics of guys getting the job done without all the "red tape".
Proud that kiwi's are amongst the best loggers in the world.
I nearly have my own chain mill up and running. Using a MS660 mag with 36" bar on a 36" Alaskin. Looking forward to getting into some timber. More on that later.
I found some old historic pictures of kauri tree milling in the Waitakere ranges area, in particular Huia. Quite a lot of photos actually. Thought I would upload some so you'all could see how us kiwis did it back in the day.
My initial quest was related to some sort of jack in order to get big logs off the ground, which is when my father said try and find an old timber jack. Apparently an item that was invented in NZ for just that job. This first pic shows each of the men using one to lift a big kauri barrel.
No chainsaws in those days!!
An extract form Te Huia Tours webiste below
...between 1850 - 1930 Huia was the centre of the Kauri tree felling industry. Early industrial settlers eager to work and make a new future in New Zealand worked long hard days doing back breaking work in the surrounding hills and valleys of Huia, cutting down the tall straight Kauri trees that would fetch a good price when sold due to the strong and durable nature of the Kauri wood.
Unfortunately most of the Kauri trees in New Zealand where cut down during the Kauri milling periods. The wood was sent to either Auckland for building new homes for the steady growing population or sent to England. Sadly no one at the time was concerned with the irreversible effect of cutting down some of the oldest, largest trees in the world, and eventually destroying an entire eco system. New Zealand once had over 1200,000 hectares of Kauri trees, now there is less than 0.3 present of these proud trees left standing. Luckily there are still some impressive Kauri trees still living in and around Huia and the Waitakere ranges.
I have a lot of these pics if anyone is interested I will upload more.
Here is a pic of 3 gents holding their jacks
Good to see pics of guys getting the job done without all the "red tape".
Proud that kiwi's are amongst the best loggers in the world.
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