big trees were central to the culture of the early settlers in the strzeleckis. in 1927 a local identity and axeman, jack pattinson cut 45 springboards into a tree to a height of 160 feet. he was ambidextrous, so the springboards went straight up the tree rather than spiraled around as usual. for a dare, he put a local gunyah football club 'dingos' jumper at the top. legend has it that he bet any man a month's wages to climb up and get the jumper down. no one ever did; so it just rotted away. but over time the pattinson tree came to represent a totem in the local community and its remnants can still be found on the grand ridge road.