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Updated: May 28, 2025
Accordingly, we worked steadily at bush-falling right along to the end of the succeeding summer; and when the next wet season came round again, we were able to contemplate a hundred and forty acres sown down with grass. Axe-work was our principal daily toil, and it is a somewhat different thing as practised here, to what the English woodman has to do.
Sometimes, at the end of the season, a bushman may find that his contract has not paid him much more than the worth of his tucker during the time; or, on the other hand, he may find he has made ten shillings a day clear out. New-chums often find a job of bush-falling is the first thing they can get hold of, and a bitter apprenticeship it is.
A bill-hook, or slasher, supplements the axe, for the purpose of clearing all the undergrowth. Nothing is left standing above waist-height. The usual time for bush-falling is the dry season, that is to say, from August till March, in which last month the burn is usually accomplished. By that time the fallen stuff has been pretty well dried in the summer sun, and will burn clean.
We used a mixture of poa pratensis, timothy, and Dutch clover, and have abundant reason to be satisfied with the result. When bush-falling is performed by hired labour, it usually goes by contract. The bushman agrees to fall, fire, and log a specified tract, at a fixed price per acre.
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