D7 ploughing felled site at Ardross Forest
Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. CN112 -113
Images of the D7 registration number MGN581L, FC62221 ploughing with a deep single mouldboard plough (S60/T90/m) on a felled site at Ardross Forest. One of the main changes from earlier photographs of this machine is the mounting mechanism of the plough onto the tractor – now a larger version of the double pivot systems used on the mounted ploughs used for the open hillsides. The tractor appears to be carrying out 2 meter spaced ploughing over the site which may have originally grown Scots pine or larch. The free draining dry soil may have had an iron pan layer restricting tree root growth and the intention was to break this up with this deep tine. The person featured in some of the photograph with the driver is Geoff Bartlett (Chief Forester Research) who at the time was based at Newton and would have been up to look over the deep ploughing on restocking sites. In time Geoff’s ashes were scattered as per his wishes at a research plot at Watten, Caithness. The neighbouring farmer Archie Campbell who very kindly assisted the research team with their work on many occasions helped to place a marker stone on the site.
Photographs are credited to Geoff Bartlett in May 1975.
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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines