Drainage Machinery Demo Kershope Forest
Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. B4476
A large number drainage machines were demonstrated at an event in Kershope Forest in May 1964. Much of the event appears to have taken place on a cleared windblow site with heavy brash but some sections of standing forest were used to show drainage along cleared and or felled rackways. Photographs by D W Henman.
A series of photographs of a Bristol PD52 tractor with an attached ‘Pup Digger’ digging drain through brash in a fairly dry site. The bucket of the ‘Pup’ appears to be very shallow yet it is forming quite a large drain but perhaps it took quite a number of actions to execute. It does however seem to have special cutting edges on the bucket.
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