Cross Draining Glengarry Forest 1955
Photographs courtesy of Brian Patience with help from Don MacLeman, Newnham. Photographs were taken by John Patience (Uncle of Brian) who was a forester at Glengarry at the time. John, originally from Avoch, trained at Glentress Forester Training School and was posted as a newly qualified forester to Mull in 1951, onwards to Glengarry in 1955, Queens in 1957 and then as Head Forester to Broadford, Skye around 1960 where he worked until he retired in 1990.
The cross draining team is made up of two TD9s in tandem pulling a Cuthbertson plough with metal drum wheels. This is the second view of cross draining operation as featured in Picture No2500. The rear TD9 tractor has a FC No1711 and Registration characters like TL054 on the plate which could be broken. The third man in white shirt is just behind the driver of this tractor.
Can anyone confirm the location as Greenfield and say in which area in Glengarry this is located?
Any guesses as to the driver names?
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