The Woodworks Museum is getting an extension prior to PFSQ moving in.
Sean Ryan , Dave Menzies and Gary Clarke felled the trees from a nearby property at Cedar Pocket, then milled them with Sean’s portable Lucas mill. They were then trucked to the site and the building began!!! Yea
It was all hands on deck for the PFSQ team of Sean, Gary, Dean, Cliff and Dave and even Bill Schulke came down from Gin Gin to lend a hand.
Private Forestry Service Qld has officially taken over the Museum from May 1, however, until the extension is finished, we won’t be having an official re-opening until July.
There are many exhibits to be displayed and we’re having a Timber Industry representatives meeting on June 24 to try to gauge support for our proposed changes for the Museum. We wish to have the museum as an educational centre also, highlighting, not only the history of timber in the Gympie region, but also the enormous role timber and it’s ancillary industries bring to our region. With this in mind, we are hoping to have displays from all the various timber sections showing the growth from the founding days of Gympie up to the present day.
It is hoped that schools will look upon a visit to the Museum as great entertainment, but intrinsically linked with that will be a lesson on the history and social outcomes regarding the role of sustainable timber management, it’s environmental outcomes and the financial benefits it brings to the community.
Here’s a few pics of the extension from top to bottom.
Sean Cutting on his mill
and cutting…
slowly starting to stack up………..
and here’s another one to mill………
down in the trenches at the Museum…….. Sean, Bill, Cliff and Dean
Getting the footings in…………
and the timber arrives…..
the floor is down…… Bill is supervising!!!!
and up it goes…
