In The Life of a Forestry Ploughman, Peter Weir takes the reader on an eventful and entertaining journey¿from Argyll, Scotland to Albuquerque, New Mexico. From high jinks on the water, to high risks on the mountains, Peter has seen most of it! Born in The Lodge, Castle Lachlan, Strathlachlan just after the Second World War, Peter left school at fifteen¿mostly because he was fed up standing in the corner getting the belt¿and started his working life close to home at Castle Lachlan. Later, he was employed in road construction, work which took him to London in the late 1960s. On his return to Scotland, he joined