Thread: Huon Pine

I would of liked to of had my Lucas back then.

Better than being chained up in your cell. Quick floggin in the morning and maybe one before bedtime. At least in the boat you get some fresh air but knowing my luck I'd be the rower in front of the guard who'd give you a flick of the cat o' nine tails every time he thought you were bludging or dreaming about his wife..

Has anyone seen the slipway built out of Huon by the convicts on Sarah Island down near Strahan - it's been in the water for hundreds of years ( or at least a long time) and is still in pretty good nick. It's a real testament to the timber.

The abc program was great 300 rainy days and snow ,now i know why the stuff is so dear

My father was a piner. He worked the Gordon, Franklin, Jane and Spero river basins during the depression. I remember him being interviewed in the 70's by Tim Bowden from the ABC for a series of radio documentaries. He had some amazing stories to tell, like "unsticking" rafts of logs in a raging flood when he couldn't even swim, or of having Tiger-Cats eating your boots and horses' harness and having to work in bare feet!

Actually, there's still some smaller stands of extremely large L. franklinii trees existing in isolated pockets in the S.W. There location is, for obvious reasons, a closely guarded secret, but the 2 I've seen are both amazing for both their individual tree size and their pristine nature.

I'm sure the piners would've known of them, but couldn't economically access them at the time, as they're both on creeks too small to float the logs downstream, even when flooded.