The Army Reserve was always willing to help the Forests Commission and rural municipalities blow stuff up.
In November 1976, sappers in the 7 Field Engineers Regiment (7FER) from Ringwood, plus some other engineers from Gippsland, helped the Horsham Shire remove an old wooden bridge on Bulgana Road, east of Stawell.
About 63 kg of plastic explosives, 11 kg of TNT, a bag of ammonium nitrate, 60 detonators and primers, plus several hundred metres of detonating fuse was enough to shatter a 50 m long timber bridge on the Wimmera River.
It was replaced by a low-level crossing.
Source: RAE photo collection.
Victoria’s Forests & Bushfire Heritage 