New single mouldboard tine plough at Parkgate

Date Added: 27 January 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1969 Picture No: 2372

Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. Nil Ref No

New tine plough fitted to a BTD8. This may have been the first fitting to a new type BTD8 tractor. The tine plough has a strengthening rib on the top of the beam to reduce the problem with bending, hard welding on the mouldboard feathers to reduce wear and a spare sock bolted onto the rear of the body. The plough swivels upwards on a horizontal bearing but also swings sideways on a vertical bearing dampened by the coil springs on either side. This movement allowed the plough to avoid severe damage when it came into contact with large rocks which they often did. This was probably the final development of this type of plough apart from move to double mouldboards in later years.

Photos by GGM Taylor in 1969 at Wm Clark’s workshop, Parkgate, Ae.

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

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My father used to carry out repair work for the Commission in the sixties and seventies,we used to rebuild hill ploughs and draining ploughs made by Clark of park gate and cuthbertsons. Most of the work was carried out through the Blackhall depot at Banchory. You may be familiar with some of the lads I remember as a loon. Davie Pittendrich was the depot manager, Jock Webster and Dod Irvine drove the tractors that hauled the ploughs,wheeled versions in them days.Other names I remember were Ewan Ferries,Ewan drove a lorry, and Dod Reith (Dod drove a dozer). Most of the work we did to the ploughs went to work in Kinlochrannoch.

We used to make bogmats as well. We also made new points or socks as they were called for the ploughs.I remember as a loon I'd get the job of hard facing the socks.I'd learnt to weld when I was eleven years old and I'm still weldin yet,sixty six, needin my heed looked at. Lookin forward to hearin from anyone who might remember any of the names mentioned. Comment left on 24 November 2020 at 21:27 by Paul gessler

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