GILLMAN`S Ford V8 Truck Transporting Logs to their Stillwater sawmill.

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DescriptionGILLMAN,S Ford V8 Truck Transporting Logs to their Stillwater sawmill.Map^[1]ContributorTony Kokshoorn

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Location (city or town)StillwaterOrganisation (eg business) Stillwater sawmill

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Date Created14th May 2025CommentsDorothy Wills
Those are huge logs

Tony Price
Legendary family.

Ron Allnatt
What weight restrictions!! ?

Arthur Bass
Ron Allnatt None it would appear.

Jon Hickford
Arthur - and one chain is more than sufficient.....

Heather Newby

amazing!!

Kevin O'Regan
Load her up Joe. Great photo

Alan Mitchell
No god squad snooping around in those days

Rob Lunn
Short timber staunchons the driver would be leaning into the corners with that load Joe also had the first 3070 on the Coast and jinker trailer for the big south Westland natives to Stillwater the bridges didn’t like it so then he tried to punt them up by sea but landing them proved to be a problem
14h

Kev Rasmussen
That poor truck

James Codyre
Seem to remember Gillmans owning a GMC which they loaded with even larger loads.

James Codyre
Bet the springs are fully loaded.

Phil Wright
No truck cops with scales around then...

Ron Allnatt
What weight restrictions!!

Noel Clark
Heading for mill at Stillwater, liscence for midnight run.

Kenny Griff
Dont look like native logs to me joe poplar or something like that or is henow

Craig Thomas
Kenny Griff yea I was trying to figure what they are...white pine?

Kenny Griff
Dont look like native logs to me joe poplar or something like that or is henow

Bev McClimont
You don't see logs on the logging trucks like that these days. The ones we see now are just posts compared to those.

Bronwyn Wafer
That's Lot of firewood - but hell I think it's a shame to cut down trees that size.
Kevin O'Regan
Load her up Joe. Great photo

Phil Norton
That poor native rimu tree....

Bev McClimont
Phil Norton as you can read above it wasn't, just a common old Pinus

Kerry Molloy
I have a very nice photo of a Molloy bros GMC logging truck having a rest on its back in a roadside ditch .Aint goin anywhere its anchored by a bloody great rimu log of this size .and before you wet your greenie pants laddio most of the older state houses in this here christchurch were framed in good old west coast milled rimu.Beleive me after 50+years it gets harder than the hobbs of hell ,and yes its nigh on bloody earthquake proof ,go tell that to ya modern pinus radiata .

Alan Mitchell
To many greenie useless picks with far to much say.

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GILLMAN`S Ford V8 Truck Transporting Logs to their Stillwater sawmill.

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