Unusual Tracked Land Drainage Machine

PN14

What do ye think of this weapon saw it in a field in Wexford during the week. Have seen some tracked machines with mole drainers attached previously but nothing a big a this.
Anyone know what it is? or has anyone ever seen it working and is it successful or not?

Reggie.

PN14 wrote: »

What do ye think of this weapon saw it in a field in Wexford during the week. Have seen some tracked machines with mole drainers attached previously but nothing a big a this.
Anyone know what it is? or has anyone ever seen it working and is it successful or not?

Like ya said that's some weapon. Never seen anything like it. Hardly a homemade job

jersey101

Father says its called a bruff. Its for drainage. Puts pipe and stones down at the same time.

What part of Wexford did you see it in?

PN14

Down in Bannow Bay area.

It would seem to put pipe & stone in together. It had a large mole plough set up (hard to see in pictures) under where the cab is. I'd say the cab raises up on rams to a higher ride height for operating. It has a gravel hopper with what I would describe as two metal plates to keep trench open (maybe 6-8" wide i only saw it from the road) for the stone to drop down from hopper into trench formed by mole plough.

I'd say you would want a fair sized diesel bowzer following her.

bogman_bass

Popular machine in Holand. If you look up drainage machines on youtube you'll find plenty of examples

delaval

Brother got land drained with one of these. A crowd from Wicklow. It does all levels as it travels, no idea of cost

Lays pipes and stone in one pass with stone cart keeping it filled.

nashmach

As said it is for drainage and if it is belonged to who I think it is it is not far from New Ross and backed up by an artic steer Fiat

PN14

It wasn't a million miles from New Ross but was actually in a field that was after been drained. Open drains cleaned out and you could see lines where drainage machine had been used across the field although there are many on here I'm sure, myself included, that if we had the field in question it would be deemed dry land and would have plenty of other places to be drained first. Ground seemed to be all sandy gravel where open ditches were done. I believe that machine would need decent ground to travel on given its size and weight.

Conmaicne Mara

You'd imagine the tracks would want to be wider for proper soupy stuff, but then Reilig has been saying about the lack of worth of stone in bog so maybe the operator isn't worried about it.

razor8

a 35 and chain wouldnt be much good if he gets stuck around here!

Reggie.

razor8 wrote: »

a 35 and chain wouldnt be much good if he gets stuck around here!

ya might as well throw your hat at it

Figerty

It looks like someone got all the bits in box with the wrong instructions and put it together the wrong way!

corglass

What do people make of the ecocombidrainage machine?

It was in the farmers journal and the Examiner yesterday.

Figerty

corglass wrote: »

What do people make of the ecocombidrainage machine?

It was in the farmers journal and the Examiner yesterday.

Impressive.

Reggie.

It will save a lot of time

severeoversteer

the machine in the first post is a mastenbrok drainage trench machine,

very common in Holland and in parts of England

didn't think there was one in ireland

delaval

severeoversteer wrote: »

the machine in the first post is a mastenbrok drainage trench machine,

very common in Holland and in parts of England

didn't think there was one in ireland

There is, don't know the make but did work for my brother guys from Wicklow. Also saw one working on M7 near Monstrevin