A new generation in the bush
Garry rowing for Gippsland Grammar (1)
Garry Leeson playing football for Sale (on left in striped jumper) (2)
Fordson County 4 Tractor - This was Garry Leeson's first machine in 1974, a forwarder pulp-wood harvester for handling cut-to-length plantation timber (3)
The Treever - This was Garry Leeson's first machine in 1974, a forwarder pulp-wood harvester for handling cut-to-length plantation timber (4)
Garry Leeson (left) & John McDonald (right) with the 230C Multijack machine in the 1970s (5)
The Windsor tree harvester was built on a Timberjack chassis. It would shear off a tree, lift it up to a delimbing carriage mounted on its back and delimb the stem (6)
The Windsor Harvestor was an Australian designed machine that cut and stripped the trees (7)
A brand new Feller Buncher in the Leeson's yard at Rosedale (8)
Leeson trucks in the Logging blockade in 1990 (9)
Garry Leeson talking to then opposition ministers Jeff Kennett and Peter Ryan during the logging blockade in 1990 (10)
Jeff Kennett looking at a Leeson's truck during the 1990 blockade (11)
Garry Leeson's first truck an International AB180 (12)
Garry Leeson and Rod Kenny next to one of the Leeson trucks (13)
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Loading six-foot billets of pine for APM in the 1970s. Gordon Shields is in the background. Dangerous work! (15)
Fordson County 4 Tractor - This was Garry Leeson's first machine in 1974, a forwarder pulp-wood harvester for handling cut-to-length plantation timber. (16)
Garry Leeson talking in a TV interview at the end of the 1990 logging blockade. (17)
Image References
(1-16) Garry Leeson Collection
(17) Win News 1990