Thomas Bros Logging Blackball.ca.1980s. PHOTO ALBUM

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DescriptionPhoto 1:Thomas Bros Logging Blackball
Townie Brian with one of his famous loads of rata.

Photo 2:Tony Willet, John Campbell.

Photo 3: Ray&Gavin Thomas on a stack of logs like to say it was a days pulling but it was during the drivers strike in 1983.

Photo 4: is last site up the back at casella pointDate of Photoca.1980`sMap^[1]ContributorGavin Thomas

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Location (city or town)BlackballCassella PointPersonTony WilletGavin ThomasJohn CampbellRay ThomasOrganisation (eg business)Thomas Bros Logging Blackball EventLogging

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Date Created5th March 2019CommentsDorothy Wills Great photos

Carol Daley my mum was born here 1913

Debbie Hocking My dad used to work with cinch horses for logging. Not sure who it was he worked for then in the 1950's at Blackball.

Dorothy Wills Added to my earlier comment my son lives in Dovedale and on a hillside across from his place they were heli-logging was fascinating to watch when we visited

Viv Sheehan Kevin Sheehan can you explain to me ,where is this ,?

Kevin Sheehan Viv Sheehan pretty sure it's up behind Burts mill

Craig Smith
Up the Croesus road?

John Campbell
Craig Smith Kinsella's from memory. This was about 1983-84

Lee Christie
Craig Smith black water creek maybe ?..

Craig Smith
Lee Christie the hill in the background should be the key.
Kinsellas would be looking into Blackball sort of and it's a fair way up. When we were all starting to hunt deer in the mid 80s i don't remember those sort of skid sites in the direct Blackball area.
Even the Croesus road isn't really like that. Farmland in the distance.
Maybe up from Tim Obriens corner looking north to Fitzys?

Lee Christie
Craig Smith behind fitzys id say

Craig Smith
Lee Christie yup that's kinsella peak but the Ridgeline in the back doesn't look right.
They are a fair way up

Lee Christie
Craig Smith yeah the road goes up a long way .. be pretty over grown these days
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Wayne Foster
The good old days

Michael Hines
Ruby creek steep as hell.

Brian Thomas
Yes that's right Michael. Most of that blackball has been logged before. And most people can not tell

Gavin Thomas
That was during the truckies strike hence all the logs under the spar Kinsella's ridge

Craig Smith
When driving from kamaka to Ngahere along those straights with the greasy backs and you looked across to the paps you could see the different green from the logging. All as thick as now and was even 20 years back

Kerry Molloy
Ah Mr Thomas i thought that phot looked somewhat familiar .Iwas mistaken -i thought the trailer was full of log ends or sloverns as dad us ed to call em ,but you say its rata -would be as rare as rocking horse shiter or honest politicians these days eh!

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