Glenamoy Tunnel Plough at Flanders Moss
Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. B4443
Scottish built version (at Parkgate) of the Irish Glenamoy tunnel plough mounted via Ede Linkage onto a wide extended tracked Bogmaster Fordson County Tractor and ready to start experimental draining/ploughing work on Flanders Moss, Loch Ard Forest in experiment 10. The photographs show a well built plough, the beautifully engineered Ede Linkage with its double acting hydraulic ram about to start operations in the drain cut previously by a Priestman Cub drag line excavator.
This image shows the intake mouth of the duct with its peat cutting edges and out at the top the deflector plate which throws the peat furrow out to the right of the moving plough. Photos all by D W Henman.
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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines