Mick Duggan Remembers

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Mick Duggan’s 40-Year Legacy

A Life Shaped by Timber

I left school in August 1962 and I retired in July 2009. So I spent 47 years in the workforce.
Of those years, 40 years have been spent in the timber industry in one area or another.

Six months were in the Forestry Department at Jimna, a little over twelve months felling timber with Vere Bleakley, and about two and a half years with Logform Industries at Kilcoy — and 36 years in sawmills.

The mills I have worked in are:

  • Hancock and Gore – Jimna

  • Brandon’s Timbers – Bellthorpe

  • Campbell Green – Conondale

  • Stephens Sawmill – Woodford

  • Grant Timbers – Woodford

  • The Caboolture Sawmill for three different owners:
    CSR, Weyerhaeuser Australia, and Carter Holt Harvey

Mick and Cheryl (nee Fredin) Duggan 2016

The remaining years:

  • Two years in the army

  • Two and a half years in the prison service at Woodford Correctional Centre

  • Two years in the building industry

  • About six months working for myself

So as you can see, I owe most of my life’s income to timber.

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