Forestry Memories

Glenamoy Tunnel Plough at Flanders Moss

Glenamoy Tunnel Plough at Flanders Moss

Date Added: 26 January 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1962 Picture No: 2305

Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. B4479

Scottish built version (at Parkgate) of the Irish Glenamoy tunnel plough mounted via Ede Linkage onto a wide extended tracked Bogmaster Fordson County Tractor which carried out experimental draining/ploughing work on Flanders Moss, Loch Ard Forest in experiment 10. Photographs by D W Henman.

This photograph shows the Soagnum/Eriophorum peat bog with ploughing completed and the extruded ribbons of peat lying on the surface. Some ribbons are continuous and others broken. The man is holding a peat sampling tool which has been opened following the process of taking a core sample through the channel and clearly shows the peat above and below the tunnel void. See PDF for more views of the peat ribbons on the surface of the Moss.

Can anyone name the man?

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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action

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