Logging on the Range
With all the rainfall we have had so far this year one marvels at just what the early settlers on the Range had to put up with when logging an area in deep mud. Before roads were built the Red Cedar trees were felled and hauled to the nearest ‘chute’. If you go along Maleny’s Mountain View Road to McCarthy’s Chute, ponder awhile to imagine how the logs were brought through the rain forest by bullock teams and rolled over the steep escarpment to the sawpit below. There they were either sawn into flitches or rafted down Coochin Creek to Bribie Passage. Sailing ships would then tow the rafts to Brisbane.
An old English traditional annual event called The Flitches of Dunmow in Essex where a side of a hog salted and cured and given yearly to any couple proving conjugal harmony for a year and a day