Ploughing on Lon Mor, Fort Augustus
Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin.
A wonderful action image of a team trying to plough furrows on the Forestry Commission experimental site on the Lon Mor near Fort Augustus. Little information has come the way of the writer to determine exactly what was happening but the Forestry Commission’s head of Research (North?), Mark L Anderson is the one standing on the plough back to camera. Two men appear to be fighting extremely hard to keep a relatively light agricultural type plough (going by the shafts) on a level and sufficiently deep furrow aided by Mark Anderson’s weight, while a third man handles the reins and a fourth man looks on in some doubt!
See S A Neustein’s A History of Plough Development in British Forestry published by Scottish Forestry in Jan 1976.
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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Horses at work in Forests