Felling Collection

TEXTBOOK / 1880 / PLATE 9
Plate 9 features pictures of deer, felling trees and butterfies

Champion Australian axemen at the London Hippodrome
Peter McClaren, the champion axeman of Australia) and Harry H. Jackson, giving an exhibition of tree cutting at the London Hippodrome in 1907. Date: 1907

Australia Tree Felling Victorian period

Photograph of New Zealand woodcutter with axe and spectators looking on. Outdoor reportage photograph. Captioned, It is the Last Blow That Counts

Scenes from the West Indies
Overseer whipping slaves on a sugar cane plantation in Jamaica 37, free man and woman of Jamaica in their finery 38, and King Henri Christophe of Haiti in 1807 39

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal Certificate, 1944
Certificate bestowing a Special Constabulary Long Service Medal on J. Rutter of the Felling Division of the Durham County Constabulary, dated 1st September 1944. Date: 1st September 1944

FELLING GIANT EUCALYPTUS
Two men use axes to fell a giant eucalyptus tree Date: circa 1910

A forester cuts logs with a chain saw during tree felling opertations in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

Label for Big Cat, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, bottled by General Distillers Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Malaysia - Men of the Sakai tribe
These men of the Malaysian Northern Sakai tribe have built a scaffolding system enabling them to cut down a tall (and very wide!) tree at an easier higher level

Felling Trees
Two men tackle a difficult tree that is leaning over. Their aim is to get the saw as close to the base as possible Date: 1930s

Gnomes shop down Christmas tree
Two gnomes chop down a Christmas tree Date: circa 1900

October Tree Felling by R Coxon

Man felling tree, forest lumber works, Western Front, WW1
Man at work felling a tree at a forest lumber works on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Maori soldier on Western Front, France, WW1
A Maori soldier from New Zealand stands by a tree he has just cut down, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier felling tree, Western Front, WW1
British soldier felling a tree in a wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Choosing trees for felling
Lumber industry : choosing trees for felling in a Canadian forest. Date: 1934

The Undercut of a Californian redwood
The immense Undercut required in the felling of a Californian giant redwood tree Date: circa 1906

Felling the old airship shed - Kingsnorth Airship Station
Felling the old airship shed at Kingsnorth Airship Station on the Isle of Grain

Logging operations in Brunei
View of felled logs and forest in Brunei

Felling Chemical Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland

The Felling of Dimmocks Chimney, Hanley
The Felling of Dimmocks Pottery Works Chimney, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on June 15th, 1905. The demolition of the great chimney was almost an event for a local holiday

TEXTBOOK / 1880 / PLATE 11
Plate 11 features pictures of felling trees and dogs (begging). Date: 1880

Mahogany, Guatemala
Felling mahogany trees in Guatemala : the enormous demand for this hard furnishing wood leads, alas, to extensive deforestation for it re-grows slowly

W. E. Gladstone watching a steam-driven saw, Tulse Hill, 1878
Engraving showing tree-felling by machinery in 1878. The picture shows a patent steam feller in action, surrounded by a group of onlookers among whom is the Prime Minister of the time

Felling Mahogany
Felling mahogany in central America (or perhaps Guyana)

Catalan Farmer Felling
A Catalan farmer fells trees, loading the wood onto his burro

Chopping down Trees
Felling trees in a French wood

Beaver Felling Tree
The beaver can fell a tree, when it suits his purpose : he nibbles round the trunk with his teeth, choosing which way he wants it to fall

Felling Wood, Russia
Russia. - Felling trees for their wood

Gladstone Fells a Tree
Gladstone was renowned for his fondness for felling trees : psychiatrists would no doubt get to the roots of this and and show why it drove him to branch out into politics

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