Mobile Sawmillers

A novel but highly efficient method of milling timber has been practised in the Gisborne district during the past 12 months by two enterprising Opotiki men. Using a Huntly-designed, Opotiki-built, mobile sawmill, the men are able to offer an "on the spot service" to farmers who want a stand of timber milled for their own use.

Powered by an adapted tractor, the mill is capable of turning out 3000 log feet in a good day.....a very comparable figure with that of a conventional mill.

Driven as it stands from job to job, the machine requires a special permit from the Transport Department for travel.

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Commencing a cut

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Fred Kelson (Waihirere Wines staff), Richard Pearce, and Mac McGregor (mill hand), take time off for a smoke.

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Richard Pearce, of J. W. R. Pearce and Son, owner and operator of the mill, guides a log through the whirling saw blades.

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The machine milling a stand of timber for Waihirere Wines Ltd.