. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . the branches and limbs to be cleared. These partsAvill re<|uire to l)e done Avhile the Aveather is Avarm. as the liml)s and branchesbeing all shapes make it difficult to build into com]5ftct heaps that Avill burnin anything but hot Aveather. As a g
. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . the branches and limbs to be cleared. These partsAvill re<|uire to l)e done Avhile the Aveather is Avarm. as the liml)s and branchesbeing all shapes make it difficult to build into com]5ftct heaps that Avill burnin anything but hot Aveather. As a general rule, the flats Avere the Avorst toburn, and it Avas here that there Avas the greatest difficulty in stacking. Asthere was no fall in the land the timber had all to be lifted and carried orrolled to the heaps. There Avas also the disadvantage that the timber on theflats Avas invariably the poorest bui-ning Avood. and many of the fallen treeswere Avaterlogged and sodden. If a contractor had to pick up and burn offeAerything up to tAvo feet in diameter, his aim Avould be to make stacks Avherethe greatest quantity of the largest spars and logs up to this size could begot to each other, getting the largest logs together first if possible, it beingAery important that the heavier logs should be as near together and the end PICKING UP. 85. IICKING TI> as even as possible when slacked. Tlie man who does the h)ppin<j; contrihiiteslargely to the success or otherwise of this part of the stacking. In getting thelogs together where the work is all man-handling, the next tool reciuired,after the indispensable axe, is a hand-spike, one for each man; then two orthree skids 10 or 12 feel long are recjnired on which to roll the large sparso^er intervening stum])s on to the toj) of the heap. Some were fortunateenough to possess iron crowbais fiom their earliest pioneering days; but. forthe most ])art. the Moodc n hands])ikes \\ere tlie more connnon. It may seemat this clay somewhat i
Size: 1908px × 1310px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidlandoflyrebi, bookyear1920
