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New exhibit at Nangwarry museum

Posted on November 25, 2008, 4:04pm

The Nangwarry Forestry and Logging Museum received its latest exhibit recently.

A machine once used to load logs onto trucks, and later as a training machine at the Logging Investigations and Training Association, is now permanently on display at the museum.

The machine certainly wasn’t easy to manoeuvre and required a Williams crane to be put into its rightful place in the display courtyard next to the Feller Buncher harvester.

The Nangwarry Forestry and Logging Museum is an iconic legacy to the growing timber industry and museum secretary Vic Smith said this addition, plus the recently built display shed, continues to add more life to the centre.

“The aim of the committee is to make this the biggest forestry museum in Australia,” Mr Smith said.

“And we’re well on our way through the generosity of the local companies that donate their machines.”

Mr Smith hopes to one day see the entire courtyard filled with former forestry and logging machines.

“The more we can get out there the better,” he said.

“We’re now waiting for a tractor that has been donated to us.

“I want to see the whole yard covered.”

The museum houses many interesting items that show the evolution of forestry work.

This includes a drag saw, swing saw, two man chainsaw, a 1898 jinker, a seed separator, saw bench crane truck, a fire truck used during the Ash Wednesday fires, a 1935 water pump and a replica of single men’s quarters.

“Every addition we get obviously encourages more people to come to the museum,” Mr Smith said.

“Some people love looking at the old machines and trucks, while others can spend all day reading about the history and looking at the photos.”

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