What is it used for??

Tom OConnor · Nov 20, 2016

I have been on the farm all my life but after going to the National Plowing Match in Ireland several times and the National Farm Machinery Show in Talare, California there are many pieces of equipment that
I just had to expose my ignorance and ask, "Just what is this thing used for? " This one is from Ireland and I wanted to see if you fellas had it figured out.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 20, 2016

Rock picker? I dunno!

mtf · Nov 20, 2016

Peat moss harvested?

37chief · Nov 20, 2016

Wide tracks, maybe a rice harvester? Stan

Cory Schmidt · Nov 20, 2016

definitely a spreader of some sort, maybe mulching for bushes or making rows of mulch.

Paul in MN · Nov 20, 2016

Judging by the very wide tracks, it has something to do with the peat bogs. IIRC, they use peat for fuel, and maybe this is some kind of harvester or dryer.

Only a guess....

Paul in MN

gtractorfan · Nov 20, 2016

Firewood getter?

Bob Harvey · Nov 20, 2016

Carrying barrels of whisky through the bogs ! Duh

Dr. Walt · Nov 21, 2016

I can picture it in my mind now, the mud packing up in the "wheel" well at the apex of the track. Note the close clearance. LOL

:>)

Humding · Nov 21, 2016

Turf hopper. Turf (peat) is loaded into the hopper by digger (360 degree excavator normally). The hopper is then pulled along with a tractor and it squeezes the turf out of moulds via an auger on the right hand side. The video below is of a similar machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxpI1zS6CGA

Traditional Farmer · Nov 21, 2016

Leprechaun Crusher?

DoubleR · Nov 21, 2016

It looks like something they used in the peat bogs. Where they harvest peat and make it into small blocks to use for heat in the winter.

paul · Nov 21, 2016

As someone else mentioned, with the extremely small clearance of the tracks to the box, it is not designed to go in mud. Clay soils would just destroy that setup over time.

So it must be designed for peat ground. Peat needs the flotation of those tracks, but it doesn't smear and ball up like clay soils would.

So, peat harvest or cart dealie.

But I sure don't know how it works, see that stuff in Europe still.

Back in the Great Depression the next peat bog over from mine caught fire and burned for a year and a half from the stories I hear. Very odd ground to farm, but with drainage it can make good corn. Mine is high ph, so hard to make good soybeans, but in a dry year it can work. It is very different dirt, you sink in to the rim with a regular tire whether it's dry or wet, and plant growth is different in it.

Harvesting the peat itself would be odd, dig a wet hole deeper and deeper......

Paul

Tom OConnor · Nov 21, 2016

Just about everybody got part of it. It is known locally in Ireland as a "Bog Buggy" and is normally loaded with an excavator and then windows the peat so it can dry out. It is then picked up with another machine and pressed into loaves similar to Dura-Flame logs and used for fuel in stoves and furnaces. Notice the two PTO shafts. One drives the augers and the other drives the tracks. Takes a dual PTO tractor like many european models.

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