Fowler Challenger 33 in trouble
Photograph is courtesy of Margaret Murray, daughter of Jimmy Munro, low loader driver.
Not much information is known other than that that tractor was driven by Donnie Junor from the Black Isle and an uncle of Margaret. The Registration Number is thought to be AMM661H as David McQuillan has a record of a Challenger in South Scotland that carried registration number AMM 680H. The perforated grill and round edge of the cab also some Fowler clues.
The location could be a thousand places in North Scotland but the writer recalls visiting a site in the early 1980s at the Crask end of Dalchork Forest with Walter Paterson (the Research Head Forester) on the left hand side of the road (when travelling north) when a wet boggy morass was encountered. According to Walter this was where a tractor had become badly bogged some years previously. It may be imagination but the smooth outline of the hill and the possibility of a line on the photograph at the bottom of the hill representing the public road make this area one candidate location.
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Groups: Caithness and Sutherland, Forestry in Action, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines