Buffalo and Fowler tractors bogged
Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. Nil Ref No or details.
Difficult to judge the sequence of moves that ended up with two tractors bogged however the Fowler tractor JXK102 in front has no plough and may have initially come in to pull out the Cuthbertson Buffalo tractor with its mounted single furrow draining plough attached. The two front men seem to be in the process of digging out or tying a knot in the cable on the Fowler winch.
Neither tractor is in a suitable line to help each other even if their engines are going and the best prospect would be a third machine standing on the harder looking ridge well behind the men - or if very soft a fourth machine (anchored back to the third) standing on a series of digger mats just behind the same front two men and with powerful winch attached to one of the bogged tractors pulling it round and lifting up at the same time.
Thought to be about 1960 but location not known.
Groups: Forest Research, Forestry in Action, Groups of people, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines