Anyone fancy a new toy?

Matt 1944 N · Post by **Matt 1944 N** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:50 pm

Here is something to spend your christmas money on, mine wont quite stretch to it

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %26otn%3D1

Post by **Oscar** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:57 am

It's a bit small for my tastes

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Post by **Brian** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:13 pm

What do you think it would look like on my single furrow deep digger? I think it would be overkill

Grani · Post by **Grani** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:46 pm

Brian wrote:What do you think it would look like on my single furrow deep digger? I think it would be overkill

Sometimes a single can be enough.

http://kuva1.kuvablogi.com/iso/img1567788.jpg
http://kuva1.kuvablogi.com/iso/img1567787.jpg

Post by **Brian** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:53 am

Grani,
Is that Cat 1 or Cat 2 linkage? I am wondering if that would fit behind the petrol Dexta.

Somewhere I have seen some pictures of ploughing in the polder with two 200hp tractors on a single furrow plough, ploughing about 1.5 to 2m deep to mix tyhe lower clay with the top soil.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:23 pm

Grani,
Do you have a picture of the machine that pulls that big plough?

Grani · Post by **Grani** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:16 pm

Mark wrote:Grani,
Do you have a picture of the machine that pulls that big plough?

This is a smaller plough i think but this is the way its done.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3895731944

Pascal · Post by **Pascal** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:13 pm

Wow, that's a big plow!

Why do they plough in the forrest?

Jerry Coles · Post by **Jerry Coles** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:34 pm

I've just watched the video of the big plow in Finland. WOW!

BUT From a safety aspect I wouldn't go anywhere near a wire rope under tension. If that rope was to snap then it will be like a whiplash and quite capable of taking off a head!!
Lets please respect some common sense safety here, that was an accident waiting to happen being so close and as for walking underneath, No way.
I was taught some recovery training in the Army and wire ropes are so unforgiving.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:32 am

Grani,
I've operated Caterpillar's with swamp pads on the tracks before, they will go where the other tracks won't even think about going. If you want to feel something powerful under your feet you need to sit in the seat of a Cat D11R.
I've never seen a plough this big before. Now we have excavators to do this kind of work.

henk · Post by **henk** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:29 am

Impressive

Post by **Oscar** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:32 am

Pascal wrote:Wow, that's a big plow!
Why do they plough in the forrest?

I suspect the plow was there before the forest.

JC · Post by JC » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:05 am

Thanks for that video, Grani. I used to run a Cat just like that one, but without the enclosed cab and wide tracks. I pulled logs with it, instead of a plow. I have pulled a big V-plow in the woods before with another Cat. It made furrows to plant trees in. Is that what that one is doing?

Grani · Post by **Grani** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:01 am

JC wrote:Thanks for that video, Grani. I used to run a Cat just like that one, but without the enclosed cab and wide tracks. I pulled logs with it, instead of a plow. I have pulled a big V-plow in the woods before with another Cat. It made furrows to plant trees in. Is that what that one is doing?

They make ditches with it to drain the forrest. It was not a good method because the ditch did not last for very long as the dirt fell back gradually. The dirt was only forced to the sidewalls of the ditch and not moved away as when digging with an excavator. An other disadvantage was that the bottom of the ditch was on the same deep from the surface all the way and the water did not flow right.