Mounted plough at Flanders Moss, Achray Forest

Date Added: 27 January 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1965 Picture No: 2335

Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. B4485

Photograph by D W Henman in 1965 of a single furrow plough head mounted on a County Bogmaster via a self levelling Ede Linkage. This prototype was built at Parkgate in Jan 1965 and incorporates two large coulter discs mounted on the A frame attached to the Linkage. Reg No of tractor 121DXC. The outfit at work on some deep ploughing.

Can anyone name the men? The man with the cap is the tractor driver.

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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines

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