Forestry Memories

Rotary Plough at Parkgate or Chapelhall?

Rotary Plough at Parkgate or Chapelhall?

Date Added: 21 April 2020 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1976 Picture No: 4654

Photograph is courtesy of Jim Christie, Crook of Devon, a former senior mechanical engineer in the Forestry Commission.

Nice image of a newly constructed experimental rotary plough that was designed to plough up lower level soil horizons and mix it with the upper humous layers to improve tree rooting and take on the drier more infertile gravel sites.

Can anyone confirm where this machine was constructed?

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Groups: Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines

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