Historical information

A digital copy of a black and white photograph of a splitters hut at Bellel near Marysville. A timber splitter (historically also called a paling-splitter or wood-splitter) was a manual forest worker who felled large trees and split the wood along the grain into useful building materials and fencing components using hand tools like axes, heavy wooden mallets (mauls), and iron wedges.

Significance

A digital copy of a black and white photograph of a splitters hut at Bellel near Marysville.