Long County /Track Marshall with Humpy Drainer

Date Added: 27 January 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1967 Picture No: 2368

Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. A3028

A Bogmaster County and a Track Marshall 55 working in tandem pulling a Humpy Draining plough across some single furrow peat ploughing. Note that the plough has double wheels on each side which became the standard.

If ground conditions were quite firm the two tractors, joined by a winch rope on brake, could pull the draining plough fairly readily but in softer or uphill conditions the lead tractor often had to run ahead to a firm spot and then use the winch to haul the other tractor and plough towards him.
There is some confusion on the details of this location but the photograph taken by Jim Atterson in 1967 has a note with the name Eddleston. Can anyone confirm?

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This forest on this peatland was harvested in 2001 and not restocked as it was sold to a community group 'Friends of Leadburn Community Woodland' a few years later. It is still deforested and now under peatland restoration with a second phase of rewetting being planned in 2024 to make it wetter than the first phase in 2009 achieved. Comment left on 11 July 2024 at 15:51 by Russell Anderson

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