Timber mill brings hope and support to fire-affected farmers at Sarsfield
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Fallen timber is too good to waste, so farmers are turning it into fence posts using a mobile timber mill.
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Victorian farmers are still battling to clean up their properties after the Black Summer fires more than a year ago.
Key points: A total of 22 per cent of the area burnt in East Gippsland last summer was agricultural land
Many properties are littered with blackened, fallen trees but the timber is too good to burn as firewood
Rotary and Lions Clubs are providing a mobile mill to help farmers cut fallen trees into fence posts