Challenger 33 and mounted Tine plough
Photograph courtesy of Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District.
There are a number of photographs of this machine in the PDF which also shows some parts of the site in the background. The Challenger 33 looks very new and thus the registration MGN685L and FC64440 number dates this as 1972 – 73. It would appear that this is a felled site ground preparation demonstration site with several other machines just visible in the background. One name is shown on one slide – Delfur, Morayshire. This machine features elsewhere on the web site and was a stage in the development of deep single furrow ploughing down to 90cms. The beam mounting mechanism changed in later versions.
Verbal information from John Keenleyside, Forres, confirms that this was a Forest Research cultivation experiment site.
Can any of the men be named? The man in the middle with camera does look a bit like John Martin North Conservancy Mechanical Engineer but not certain!
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