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Chips on their way to Japan travel up the conveyor belt towards the huge chip bin from which this photograph was taken. Another conveyor carries logs and waste from the mill into the chipper. The waste from the mill can be seen to the right of the chipper on a conveyor parallel to the chip conveyor

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Chip truck driver Rex Sherwood has been with Baigents for 39 years. Here Rex is waiting for another load. The jaws of the bin, middle right, are tightly clamped on tons of chips

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Shredded of its bark, a log passes along the conveyor bound for either the mill or the chipper

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Logs being cut into suitable lengths

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Another view of the milling complex that comprises Brookside. In the foreground is the long conveyor carrying logs to the chipper and this is joined by waste material, bottom left. Middle right are logs bound for the mill

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Three fellows who helped build the chip mill are Jim Gibson, Roy Oddy and Joe Posthumus, foreman-in-charge of the construction

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Chipper boss, Cyril Riddle

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Logs headed for milling are shunted off the conveyor after being debarked

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Smoke once poured from this burner as all waste material passed into its stomach. Now sawdust is its main diet. In the background is the object that takes most of what was once destined for the burner - the chip bin

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Manning the chipper is hard on the ears and Bob Lackner wears protective gear to deaden the din