Bogged Poclain Excavators at Dunbeath

Date Added: 30 June 2010 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1975 Picture No: 611

Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart.

Bogged Poclain diggers at Dunbeath. A contractor had decided to shift one of his machines to another site overland and it became stuck in a bog. Machine No 2 was sent to recover it but ended up in the same predicament as did the third machine sent afterwards. The Forestry Commission became involved in the debogging operation using some of their machines, equipment and expertise!

Willie recalls that as it was close to the public road and the main debogging operation got underway at the weekend a great number of the public came along to observe operations. Many of them stood or persisted in standing in what they thought good vantage points but in fact were within the bight of the ropes between debogging tractors and bogged diggers!

Groups: Caithness and Sutherland

2 Comments

Good day everyone, I'm looking for Alfie Monkton. Is he still about?
Alfred Beilin Comment left on 11 March 2012 at 00:28 by Alfred Beilin

I mind in the early 80s a Poclain was nearly out of site at upper borgue, Willy Ganson's machine. Alan Gardner had a few Poclains in the 70s. BIG ALISTAIR from Lybster built a sleeper base with metal tripod for lifting and pulling it out with wire ropes, pulleys etc, and drilled a rock mound and had metal pins inserted for attaching to it as well. He got the Poclain recovered. I was up there a few times in my youth. Comment left on 25 November 2024 at 09:47 by Donald MACKENZIE

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