Daily business of 1955 Klong Bangkok Noi
Daily business of 1955 Klong Bangkok Noi
Scene along Surawong Road of May 1969
As I had read in a book by an Englishman who after the WW1 was hired to make logging in the North, the logs were thrown in the river for free single floating. To be collected only in Nakon Sawan, then bound into rafts for the final journey to Bangkok, where the arrived pieces were counted and declared for export tax. Quite no idea what percentage of the felled trees it was.
It has to be noted that the teak logs cannot float when fresh cut since heavier than water. Therefore, the teaks were first half girdled in order to die and dry when still standing. Then after a year or two the dry tree was felled and brought to the river awaiting on the autumn flood.
1890 Mueang Chachoengsao
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