Jinkers & Whims: A Pictorial History of Timber-Getting by Jack Bradshaw

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Small stain on page 15.

This book traces the development of the methods and machines used to harvest the forests of Western Australia over the last 150 years, from the first settlement to the present day, from horse and steam power to modern mechanical harvesters.

It describes the bush workings and logging operations that underpinned WA's sawmilling industry - once the third largest industry in the state behind wheat and wool.

It is also a tribute to the skill and innovation of the bushmen and engineers who brought about the changes and who designed and built those weird and wonderful machines that were unique to the industry and to this part of the world.

More than one hundred photographs are included.