Heavy plough off lorry at Cloich Forest

Date Added: 14 August 2018 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1974 Picture No: 4161

The photographs are courtesy of Stuart Mitchell, Peebles area, who formerly worked at Glentress Forest.

This photograph and the sequence shown in the attached PDF show the experimental rotary plough mounted on the large Forest Research based Caterpillar D7 tractor MGM 581L. The unit appears to have slipped off its transporting lorry trailer registration number VLL258G or it may have slipped while unloading and has hung up on the frame of the trailer.

The forest must have been chosen as one of the trial sites for this plough around 1974? In the PDF note the side cables restraining the trailer from tipping over. The cables could be from two Fiat tractors seen in record No 4163

Can any of the men be named?

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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Other Vehicles and Machines, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines

2 Comments

the man in the hat looks like Manfred Krauz to me but am not sure Comment left on 19 August 2018 at 14:09 by

The guy at the back with the black hair is Rab Patton form Gorebridge. the rotary mouldboard plough that's on the back of the tractor was also trialled at Monynut forest which is at the east end of the Lammermuirs. I was banksman for the operation for a while and the operator there was John Glover and he gave me a book to read to ease the boredom - the book was Jaws. Comment left on 25 October 2019 at 13:45 by Gordon Ferguson

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