Deep tine Rosarie Forest
Photograph courtesy of David Foot, Surrey taken around 1973 possibly as early as 1971 and a follow on from Picture No 3319.
The Fowler Challenger 33 and deep tine mounted hydraulic plough is working on a felled site carrying out deep ploughing to try and break up the compacted soil and any iron pan. At this time this was one of the few machines that could cope with the stumps of felled trees provided the site was reasonably firm and dry.
The location could be Caird’s Wood with pylon line on its edge and looking over to the east of Keith with Bin of Cullen in far distance.
The plough head is an S75/t90 able to plough a furrow down to 75cms and tine to 90cms. Note the spare plough tine sock fitted to the mouldboard support of the plough head. The tractor registration is JLC 697K. Can anyone name the driver?
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Northeast Scotland , Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines