Cross draining at Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour.
Circa 1967.
Cross draining the ploughed hill at Aultmore Forest, Adie Hill, with the normal single furrow Cuthberson plough head. In order to cut below the depth of plough furrows the plough in its cross draining mode would have to be trimmed to some of its deepest settings. The operator is almost certainly Jimmy Sangster or Dick Warrior on what looks like a Track Marshall tractor. In the photograph the outfit is returning in travel mode with the plough head up to a higher point on the hill so that it can plough the drain more easily down hill, critical with only one tractor pulling the plough.
Note the hill top mast on Adie Hill and lochan?
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Northeast Scotland , Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines