Logging equipment

Benjamin Holt produced the first commercially successful track-laying tractor in 1904; crawler tractors revolutionised logging on the west coast of the USA and, from 1933–34, in the forests near Alexandra. By 1937, twelve of the twenty-three local sawmills employed a crawler.

Manufactured by Alfred Harman & Sons at Port Melbourne — the pre-eminent Victorian-made logging winch, with cast-steel upper frame, Stephenson's link reversing gear and twin cast-steel drums.

A third-motion winch built by the Steel Company of Australia at Brunswick, used by Ruoak Timbers at its No. 5 mill in the Rubicon Forest. Maintained as a memorial to the twelve men who died at Rubicon in the bushfires of 1939.

The wire-rope work associated with the Steel Company winch illustrates the "endless loop" method used to snig logs from the bush. Installed in 1990 by former Rubicon bush-boss Ernie Le Brun.

Working sawmill model, mill settlement and tool display housed in "Ernie's Room" — Ernie Le Brun's legacy after a lifetime in the Rubicon Forest, alongside his climbing gear and a video presentation.