Description: A group of men are using a tractor to pull logs onto a large logging truck. The clearing they are in is muddy with a line of trees behind them.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A group of men are using a tractor to pull logs onto a large logging truck. The clearing they are in is muddy with a line of trees behind them.

Description: A group of men are using a tractor to pull logs onto a large logging truck. The clearing they are in is muddy with a line of trees behind them.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A group of men are using a tractor to pull logs onto a large logging truck. The clearing they are in is muddy with a line of trees behind them.

Description: A group of men are using a tractor to pull logs onto a large logging truck.This image is a close up of how they load the truck. They are using the tractor as a weight and ropes as pullies to haul each log individually onto the back of the truck. The log is being held up half way by wooden stands being used as a ramp.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A group of men are using a tractor to pull logs onto a large logging truck.This image is a close up of how they load the truck. They are using the tractor as a weight and…

Description: A black and white photograph depicting a forest scene, with newly felled kauri logs lying across the ground. A small hut or structure is visible in the centre of the image.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A black and white photograph depicting a forest scene, with newly felled kauri logs lying across the ground. A small hut or structure is visible in the centre of the image.

Description: Two bushmen wearing overalls chop at a large tree with axes. Tree trunks and forest in background.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Two bushmen wearing overalls chop at a large tree with axes. Tree trunks and forest in background.

Description: Man adjusting chains to a kauri log, bullock team attached and looking on. Timber jack and other tools in foreground, kauri forest scenic panorama in the background.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Man adjusting chains to a kauri log, bullock team attached and looking on. Timber jack and other tools in foreground, kauri forest scenic panorama in the background.

Description: A railway track runs along the foreground of this logging transport picture. Behind up on the rise are several horses with men holding the reins. The logs are front of them on the rail cars being loaded from the horses.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A railway track runs along the foreground of this logging transport picture. Behind up on the rise are several horses with men holding the reins. The logs are front of them on…

Description: A group portrait with logging transport staff posed in their workplace. Railway tracks run along the foreground with railcars nearby ready to run on them full of logs. A strong team of horses can be seen in the picture held by men. Many of the horses have dragging yolks around their necks to pull logs.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A group portrait with logging transport staff posed in their workplace. Railway tracks run along the foreground with railcars nearby ready to run on them full of logs. A…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Three bushmen equipped with tools, two standing before a large felled tree, one upon it holding a timber jack, posing for the camera.They have been in the process of chopping the log in two. The surroundings are bush.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Three bushmen equipped with tools, two standing before a large felled tree, one upon it holding a timber jack, posing for the camera.They have been in the process of chopping…

Description: Fore ground there is a dozen or so logs half on half off the truck blocking one road. A man is squatting on the top of some of the logs. Two cars are on the road, another truck pos. collecting the fallen logs and asmall tractor. In the back ground, farm land and some houses.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Fore ground there is a dozen or so logs half on half off the truck blocking one road. A man is squatting on the top of some of the logs. Two cars are on the road, another…

Description: Timber tied together with ropes lying by the water's edge, men on canoe to the left, large trees to the right and mountains in the background.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Timber tied together with ropes lying by the water's edge, men on canoe to the left, large trees to the right and mountains in the background.

Description: Forest in background with a team of oxen in the foreground, man standing by them. Thatched building to the left.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Forest in background with a team of oxen in the foreground, man standing by them. Thatched building to the left.

Description: A kauri tree stands beside a tramline running through what is left of the bush. Remains of trees fall across part of the tracks.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A kauri tree stands beside a tramline running through what is left of the bush. Remains of trees fall across part of the tracks.

Description: Two three masted barques moored at wharves. Timber logs lying on the foreshore.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Two three masted barques moored at wharves. Timber logs lying on the foreshore.

Description: A large log truck carrying one tree trunk has crashed into the bank on the side of the road. A man is walking along beside the truck, away from the camera. The road is wet and muddy. There is thick forest on both sides of the road.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A large log truck carrying one tree trunk has crashed into the bank on the side of the road. A man is walking along beside the truck, away from the camera. The road is wet and…

Description: Looking down on a large felled kauri tree in the bush. Two men are astride of it starting to saw through it with a long saw.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Looking down on a large felled kauri tree in the bush. Two men are astride of it starting to saw through it with a long saw.

Description: Pit sawing in progress, with one man in the pit and the other above sawing part of a log. Background scrubland with trees.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Pit sawing in progress, with one man in the pit and the other above sawing part of a log. Background scrubland with trees.

Description: Shed with chimney and winches on left. Logs being rolled across skids towards an awaiting wagon on a bush tramline.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Shed with chimney and winches on left. Logs being rolled across skids towards an awaiting wagon on a bush tramline.

Description: Working the Kauri is the dramatic story of the bushmen of the great kauri forests of northern New Zealand. Following its first use by Europeans in the late 1700s the kauri became the focus of an intensive timber industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, based largely in Northland and on the Coromandel Peninsula. At the heart of the industry were the kauri bushmen, a remarkable, colourful group of men who laboured deep in the forests, felling giant trees with simple hand tools. Using bullocks, tramways, steam winches and driving water the bushmen transported heavy logs across rugged country to the sawmills. It was tough, dangerous work that required the men to live for months in remote, rough camps. This book provides a fascinating insights into the lives and work of these bushmen.--Publishers blurb, back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Working the Kauri is the dramatic story of the bushmen of the great kauri forests of northern New Zealand. Following its first use by Europeans in the late 1700s the kauri…