The Perthshire I met in June 1962 was devoid of Motorways; steam
trains still worked the branch lines and MOT tests for cars were
far in the future. This story of my time with the Forestry
Commission is really the sequence to my National Service in Germany
that I wrote of in "Two Years" with the Pied Piper of Hameln.
Forestry was changing; coal mining was scaling down and the
labourintensive pit prop market was being replaced by the need for
the more easily mechanised pulp wood to feed the new pulp mill
outside Fort William. Timber Lorries were becoming both longer and
heavier and the forest roads and bridges had to be strengthened to
cope. The natural forests had been depleted by the demands of two
world wars and the new forests planted on heather moors torn by
tractors and giant ploughs. This was the world I worked in for
eight years, and this is the story of the men and machines that
made it possible.
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