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This site focusses on the care and management of the forests and woodlands in the State of Victoria, Australia until around the late-1990s.
In the early to mid-1800s, non-aboriginal people arriving in what is now known as south-eastern Australia, encountered a landscape that seemed boundless; and one clothed with unfamiliar forests. In the early 1900s, after several Inquiries into Victoria’s forests, the Forests Commission of Victoria (FCV) was established. It was merged into a large land and resource management department in the mid-1980s.
Founded in 1979, the Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA) currently comprises around 180 members.
The Association can be contacted at: www.victoriasforestryheritage.org.au/.
In facilitating the establishment of this site the FCRPA acknowledges the considerable support it received from the 'Australian Centre for the Moving Image', and the then Department of Land, Environment, Water, and Planning. (Now DEECA)
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@dendad5128
@dendad5128 6 дней назад
My Grandpa drove the steam engine at the Erica mill many years ago, and my Dad helped a bit when he was a boy.
@Benjamin-qb9qh
@Benjamin-qb9qh Месяц назад
Awesome
@Flying_Flaming_Emu_Army
@Flying_Flaming_Emu_Army Месяц назад
For the life of me i cant find that song, if anyone knows i would really appreciate it
@Geoff-m7j
@Geoff-m7j Месяц назад
Those were the days when forestry seemed an inexhaustible resource. The loggers were hard working men using primitive equipment by today’s standards.
@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm
@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm 2 месяца назад
My PoP was a blacksmith at a mill and i was often there on school holidays - just like this kid = but i was only 10yo - often warned off from the mill area ! but catching bugs and crubs from the logs and go fishing ! - rabbit was often baked and stuffed with vegtables for dinner !
@HikeingiTuP
@HikeingiTuP 2 месяца назад
heading to Erica in a few weeks, love this, getting a handle on what it was about.
@runestone1337
@runestone1337 2 месяца назад
And we all know who destroyed Victoria's forestry industry, don't we? Good ol' Dan.
@basaltplainscreationsaustr1194
@basaltplainscreationsaustr1194 3 месяца назад
It is such a pity that greed has caused the demise of the timber industry in Victoria. I run a small-scale milling operation south of Ballarat, only processing about one hundred tonnes per year. Regards Liz.
@699hazard
@699hazard 3 месяца назад
Great video but no more forestry in Australia
@WallaceLivingFree
@WallaceLivingFree 4 месяца назад
What!, Im the first comment, Hi Jim Hi Edna, and others cheers Wally Campbell, Balook 2024, still Kicking....
@abrogard
@abrogard 4 месяца назад
wonderful. give us more. harking back to when men were men. kinda related to how the pyramids were built. with human ingenuity.
@xr6lad
@xr6lad 4 месяца назад
Poor Ron. Looks like Dad was only interested in beer and pussy. And on the latter needed a map to find it.
@xr6lad
@xr6lad 4 месяца назад
Certainly no decent baker in Erica now making all those pies.
@helixator3975
@helixator3975 4 месяца назад
I was born in a small Gippsland town three years later
@WallaceLivingFree
@WallaceLivingFree 5 месяцев назад
Well done Folks
@Christopher-b4q
@Christopher-b4q 6 месяцев назад
2024 hardwood logging banned All the mills shut Handful of people made all the money everyone else redundant Can't cut firewood anywhere not aloud Alcoa own the only old growth left in the state destined for clearing Nothing was learnt
@coreeymugridge2796
@coreeymugridge2796 6 месяцев назад
It’s amazing what a cross cut can do! I would’ve liked to be there before wouldn’t you? The Japanese would have been laughing at us, destroying our old growth forests for export to be turned into paper, It’s sad.
@steamengineering
@steamengineering 6 месяцев назад
What an amazing piece of footage. It even has sound!!!! So much of what was done, and how, has been lost. But at least this hasn't.
@WayneWarntaparri-d5k
@WayneWarntaparri-d5k 7 месяцев назад
Using road tyres on impassible terrains while carrying a lot of weight in the tanks, 😳 looks very impressive 😁👍
@tomweickmann6414
@tomweickmann6414 11 месяцев назад
American here. I apologize Australia. Didn't even know you had forests, let alone forests of this magnificent wood. You can tell it's tough even looking at it. Strong wood harvested by strong men. Stay safe.
@johnsmit5516
@johnsmit5516 11 месяцев назад
I grew up in a small sawmilling town in Northern Tasmania in the late 60's and it was the same. I'm one of 6 brothers, 5 of us worked in the mills at some time or other. hard work but a good living. such a shame it's almost all gone now but we still have some magnificent forests and memories of a different time.
@858493
@858493 11 месяцев назад
Thank you for sharing this, as a teacher at Forestec it hurts me to see where we are today compared to what we had..again thanks.
@davow8
@davow8 Год назад
Thankyou for posting. Great coverage given the vintage. We now understand that the myth of koala brains being small is incorrect. Their quirky and intelligent behaviour defies their critics on that front.
@ronhenney4546
@ronhenney4546 Год назад
What a bunch of lies you know nothing about the Barmah forest this is just made up garbage to suit today’s narrative 180 years ago it wasnt even a forest it was open plains country and it has been seeded for tree growth .,And is now overgrown and basically a pig sty since Parks Victoria has been in control. You know nothing about the water table or how red gums work. Who ever put this together you are a disgrace
@timothysullivan4130
@timothysullivan4130 Год назад
These historic videos are great, thanks so much for posting them.I am a retired arborist & LOVE watching them.
@chrishayman1747
@chrishayman1747 Год назад
Great little video Leesa. Really enjoyed it. What part of CQ ?
@ishure8849
@ishure8849 Год назад
Thanks again for sharing, I was lucky enough to spend a week with my uncle John when he worked for Alec Demby delivering timber from the mill in the truck forty years ago. There was an old bloke in the log yard cutting logs to length with a chainsaw and he was moving it backwards and forwards, Uncle John said that fella's that old he still thinks he's using a cross cut 👍.
@ishure8849
@ishure8849 Год назад
thanks again FHV, my grandfather Arthur was the forestry officer at Forrest in the 1930s he was stationed at Taggerty in 39.
@bigears4014
@bigears4014 Год назад
Hardwood framing is 500 times better than shit pine , pine warps and rotts
@graemekemp1462
@graemekemp1462 6 месяцев назад
I used to see the s two Kenworth delivering timber to the pallet yard in Seaford fifty years ago
@bigears4014
@bigears4014 Год назад
My dad ordered 12m 6x2 in the mid seventies, hardwood from smithton tas , there was a 10 percent surcharge because of the length, beautiful timber and bloody heavy
@logjammin084
@logjammin084 6 месяцев назад
What was he using them for? Could you imagine the cost today?
@bigears4014
@bigears4014 6 месяцев назад
@@logjammin084 rafters , these days you can get laminated or engineered timbers
@chrishayman1747
@chrishayman1747 Год назад
Thoroughly oughly enjoyed this
@ronhenney4546
@ronhenney4546 Год назад
Its basically all lies who ever made this knows nothing of the Forest it history and how river reds survive
@chrishayman1747
@chrishayman1747 Год назад
Great video. We love seeing all the old footage of logging in Australia
@chygwelanmeneth
@chygwelanmeneth Год назад
Very interesting. Similar to the wattle bark stripping around Port MacDonnell, just across the SA border, where Wilke's bark mill ground and crushed bark from 1874 to 1920, exporting it all via sea - the mill being connected with the jetty by its own tramway. Golden wattle and Black wattle was found to be the best, having a higher tannin content.
@ishure8849
@ishure8849 2 года назад
Once again thanks for this footage my father was born in forrest and his father was the forestry officer there at that time 1931. The responsibility of the protection and management of our forest reserves must rest with the commission and its selective logging practices, unfortunately they are no longer with us like the vast knowledge of those men and women, as for now the sole responsibility of our Victorian forests and lack of management is controlled by six inner city councils and their armchair expert residents whose preference is to look at desiduous trees.
@ishure8849
@ishure8849 2 года назад
Very interesting, pine is a fungus that's a good one I'm going to use that 👍.
@marcushaynes843
@marcushaynes843 2 года назад
A Stihl Contra/Lightning. Before the 070s and 090s.
@dennisthemenace57
@dennisthemenace57 Год назад
Yes, you are correct. Took real men to lump saws like that and 090s through the bush in those days
@ishure8849
@ishure8849 2 года назад
Thanks for this treasure my grandfather died before i was born so I'm naturally interested in his life. he was the forestry officer at forrest in the early thirties Arthur Tiny Ure he played football for forrest and as legends go he kicked the ball one day in a game and they stopped the game to measure the kick eighty two yards.Geelong asked him to play for them but it was difficult for him to get to training as his job was far more important than playing football, he sat on the bench for one senior game as nineteenth man and didn't go on so therefore he's not in the book. he was promoted to forest commissioner and transferred to Healesville and is pictured in your video titled Australian Eastern States-Timber Industry Stabilization Conference-1951.Field Excursion At 2:09 he can be seen standing to the left of the journalist holding the camera at WM.Cook & Co. Mill Thornton...Thank you.
@peterbuttge7434
@peterbuttge7434 2 года назад
Went in there in1960 with the Morwell YMCA on a bushwalk to LakeTarli Karn up Riggalls Spur. Road construction had just started . Great access to the Wellington Plateau for many subsequent Bushwalks.😁
@publicrejoicer
@publicrejoicer 2 года назад
Great info and vision. thanks
@dennisthemenace57
@dennisthemenace57 2 года назад
Love to drop a few big red gums today
@ronhenney4546
@ronhenney4546 2 года назад
Such a shame to see an iconic forest and eco system turned to rubbish the enviro terrorists behind this you wouldn’t leave in charge of an empty bucket. If their collective brains were manure it wouldn’t grow a weed
@IgmuTu1
@IgmuTu1 2 года назад
Just found this Doc thanks for the great work.i lived in Alex for 16 years great place to raise a Family Cheers
@koohnavard11
@koohnavard11 2 года назад
Great stuff FH. Thank you. I could listen to the old fella for hours on end .
@carmengloriamugaastudillo1265
@carmengloriamugaastudillo1265 2 года назад
Señores seguirán los desastres naturales si no hay REFORESTACION de árboles NATIVOS para que vuelva el ciclo de vida. Los árboles regulan la temperatura en la corteza terrestre. Resguardan las NAPAS SUBTERRÁNEAS. Juntos podemos 2022. Ahora estamos parados en una bomba de tiempo. No hay equilibrio en el planeta. Prioridad para todos los países del mundo.
@alperenbaser7952
@alperenbaser7952 2 года назад
great video .it s so sad to see australian forests cant recover from fire. we have turkish pines in our forests. they r extremely resistant to drought but when they burn they can recover in 20 years
@pedrocam100
@pedrocam100 2 года назад
"Tactics left to the fire boss on the scene." What a novel idea. Back burning at night, tracking close to the fire line when possible and immediate tactical backburning. The current experts don't seem to realise that taking hours or days to make decisions is a significant part of the reason why we have more and bigger fires. The biodiversity and adjoining land owners are bigger losers than ever before. It is not a matter of how little has been learnt. It is more about how much has been forgotten and now not used by today's experts.
@johnnewman7954
@johnnewman7954 2 года назад
propaganda
@hunterhq295
@hunterhq295 2 года назад
Recent fires in Australia hope they manage to restore
@cristianhill7379
@cristianhill7379 2 года назад
Thanks for posting, lovely slice of history. I note the beret style hats a couple of the men were wearing. I've seen photos of my father from the 1960s wearing the same type of headgear. At the time he was working on Flinders Island TAS for the Agricultural Bank.
@mikestott9105
@mikestott9105 2 года назад
What an amazing historical video. Thank You!