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Garrett Milled Peat Field Slitter

Garrett Milled Peat Field Slitter in Eat the Peach, Movie, 1986

Class: Others, Farming vehicle — Model origin: — Made for: IRL

Garrett Milled Peat Field Slitter

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Mitto ◊ 2010-08-25 21:14	M.P. Field Slitter ?
CougarTim ◊ 2010-08-26 01:01	Definitely looks like it. http://www.heartland.ie/heritage/index.php/Drainage_Machine Anyone know any more about this beast? Is M.P. the make? Or does it stand for Moss Peat?
mike962 ◊ 2013-11-16 21:51	here a new link http://www.heartland.ie/equipment/drainage-machine Quote Type - M.P. Field Slitter This machine was developed to cut slit drains in milled peat fields to accelerate drainage in the poorer quality areas. The drains cut to a definite pattern comprising three longitudinal slits, one central and one on either side, with cross drains giving exit to the ditches at regular intervals. The machine comprises a standard agricultural tractor on full tracks with a chain saw cutting attach¬ment similar to the chain saw machine. The tractor has a special transmission to give the correct forward travel speeds in second, and third gear. The modification involved the replacement of the gearbox primary gear train and the differential crown wheel and pinion in addition to the insertion of a special reduction gearbox. The tracks comprise flat metal cleats carried on two chains and run on the standard tractor tyred wheels and an additional jockey wheel. The attachment is carried at the rear of the tractor, is pivoted on the centre of a standard power-take-of f bevel box output shaft and is raised and lowered about this pivot by a hydraulic ram operated from the driving position. The cutting element is a standard transmission chain with cutting teeth secured to it by welding, running over top driving sprocket and a bottom driven sprocket whose shaft carries a cutting impeller on either side outside the support bearings. These impellers, in conjunction with the cutting chain, excavate a tunnel of rectangular section at the bottom of the slit drain cut by the chain only. The machine is fitted with a cab with toughened glass windows giving good vision for manoeuvring and observing the behaviour of the attachmen
mike962 ◊ 2014-01-26 11:44	some FACTS about this thing - movie was filmed in Ireland - the single article about it comes from an Irish site - there is nothing else on the www about it So possible conclusion this be a one off machine build in Ireland We could name it CUSTOM MADE M.P. Field Slitter model origin Irreland -- Last edit: 2014-01-26 11:50:49
lightninboy ◊ 2014-12-11 18:07	mike962 wrote some FACTS about this thing - movie was filmed in Ireland - the single article about it comes from an Irish site - there is nothing else on the www about it So possible conclusion this be a one off machine build in Ireland We could name it CUSTOM MADE M.P. Field Slitter model origin Irreland Yeah, we know little about the maker and don't know of more than one being built.
mike962 ◊ 2015-04-07 23:02	SOLVED !!! finally nailed this Garrett peat tractor Link to "www.edp24.co.uk" Quote The giant wheel was a ditch cutter and other machines were used to skim, process and mill the peat ready for use in the power industry. The machines were made by Garrett’s famous factory at Leiston which made steam engines, farm machinery, and even trolleybuses and electric dustcarts. “I have seen them in books, but also found one in Ireland near a peat industry museum. They were painted daffodil yellow,” said Mr Burgess 73. Donald Savage, 77, from Fressingfield remembered actually working on one when he was a teenage apprentice at Garrett’s. As the apprentice fitter engineer I had to tap out a considerable number of holes to join the plates making up the hull,” he recalled. The machines had big tracks and wheels so they did not sink, and had the counterweight so they did not tip over. Anna Mercer, curator at the Long Shop Museum charting the history of the Garrett factory, confirmed it was a peat harvesting “ditcher” - made in Suffolk and mostly exported, unassembled, to Ireland and Scotland. They were made mainly in the 1950s by the company which began in 1778 making scythes and ploughs before its most famous product of steam engines in the 1840s. It went into liquidation in 1932 but continued under the wing of Bayer Peacock until 1980 making things as diverse as dry cleaning machines and sectional buildings. Mr Jarvis was grateful for the information from readers which identified the machine saying he recalled Uncle Billie, in the picture, spent some holidays in Ireland - and would have stopped to have his picture with such a magnificent machine. The Long Shop Museum, which has pictures of the peat harvesters and other Garrett machines, reopens in March. For more information contact www.longshopmuseum.co.uk
mike962 ◊ 2015-04-07 23:03
mike962 ◊ 2015-04-07 23:06	assembled in Suffolk so perhaps origin UK build for Irreland ??
dsl ◊ 2015-04-07 23:48	Good work - . And an interesting story.

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