These photographs, taken in the early 1900s, are of 100 foot long Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus) piles produced by the Gray Brothers mills on Bruny Island in southern Tasmania.
The timber was destined as hewn piles for Admiralty Harbour Works at Dover in England and for similar works at Simon’s Town in South Africa.
The piles were floated out on barges and loaded lengthwise through a special port hole in the bow of the ship.
The company also operated a steam powered sawmill on the island which was fed by a network of timber tramlines.
The Hobart Mercury of Monday 8th June 1903.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12277295
University of Tasmania Library
https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22430/
Victoria’s Forests & Bushfire Heritage 