MCLAREN PLOUGHING TACKLE

Steam-powered, double engine, cable ploughing and cultivation is a marvellous sight and these days is a great pull at shows and events, conjuring up in some of us a nostalgia for those bygone days

Leviathans

While they are fascinating to watch, these heavy leviathans with their long-bodied boilers and underslung winding drums (other configurations also available) were in their day and still are, expensive to purchase and run. Consequently, they were mainly operated and owned by agricultural contractors, the constant attention to power plant and equipment keeping a team of men busily employed during the long hours of the working day.

Of course, mechanisation and innovation are the path to increased agricultural yield and profitability by the lowering of production costs, and the plough certainly achieved that in experienced hands. Progress never stands still and, this era was no different. The manufacturers of agricultural machinery researched and developed,