Earning a crust

By the 1920s the Kauri bushmen have tools of the trade on the stump in the foreground; the axe and crosscut on a tree just felled by George Murray and his Croatian sawing partner. The KTC tally man is up on the log estimating its volume, which will be the basis for what George and his men get paid. The two men soon to start ‘heading’ are also standing on the trunk working out how they might safely saw it into logs on such steep ground. Heading is a dangerous, challenging task.