Modern version of steam ploughing

[Clayfarmer]

I believe that jersey royals are still grown on steep south facing slopes. The cultivations being carried out by implements pulled by a tractor winch on the top headland.

 

[Oldstyle]

A big Fergie got stuck in the other day near us, and it defeated another big Fergie and a Deere trying to pull it out. Cue the local Field Marshall and winch, which pulled it straight out without breaking into a sweat.It got me thinking about ploughing by winch. Somewhere I have all the figures for steam ploughing in Gt grandad's notebook . I'll see if I can find them.

Had that last winter borrowed a JD 6600 that wouldn't start in the cold so used our David Brown that got stuck so winched it out with the field marshall.

 

[MattR]

That's the beauty of a marshall and a winch - doesn't need traction, just a good anchorage somewhere out of the bog and will pull most things out

 

[Bogweevil]

German vineyards

 

[Goweresque]

German vineyards

That can't be Germany, we've been told in no uncertain terms that farming on a shoestring is a dirty English vice and those forward looking Continental types would never stoop to anything as backward as using a tractor that stopped being produced in 1981.....