Bog Excavator ditching in Irish Bog (Part 1)

Bog ditcher for draining very wet bog land.
A great piece of home engineering.
-Priestman Undercarriage and cab
-Massey Ferguson 2640 gearbox & rear final drive,
120HP, 5.8 litre, Perkins 6 cylinder engine.
-The ditcher is manufactured by Pirelli.
Any questions just comment below and I hope you enjoy the video.

[@elflakeador09]

Con is the finest mechanic in country,and an absolute gent😎👍

[@jonathancook4022]

Thanks for uploading. A great machine designed to do one job and do it well.

[@mikekirtley4822]

A great bit of kit ,well thought out, fair play to inventor ,simple but does the job .

[@kenhanna6834]

That's indeed one marvellous piece of kit... :)

[@bladder1010]

That machine looks like it belongs in a science fiction movie!

[@davidb9025]

Had the same tractor here in Scotland peat bogs with the meri ditcher on back

[@pmitch00]

Gladly, draining our bogs is now a thing of the past...
I often wondered how they managed to cut the drains so perfectly parallel on BnM bogs going back 70 years ago before we had the use of GPS etc. Each field couldn’t be 2km long.

[@theloniousmonk1000]

Beautiful machine . Could tow a drill rig through bog with that there

[@johnt7232]

Love it , fantastic , well done sir

[@justinfletcher3597]

Madmax machine.

[@wicklamulla]

some yoke, fair play to ye.

[@user-rk7jy9dz1l]

👍

[@rebelcounty2078]

NASA are looking for ya 😂

[@malcolmholmes4535]

I'm having a guess that this is near Allenwood?

[@oficheallaigh9560]

Is this happening in Culliagh County Roscommon near Ballinasloe

[@gregg4164]

It aint pretty but it works damned well don't it.

[@angryfiddler1751]

+gregg4164 That's what the boys at work say of me all the time. :)

[@alanbyrne4348]

Would a digger not be quicker

[@conautos]

Hi Alan This machine has very low ground and will travel anywhere.This peat bog is 25 feet deep.

[@alanbyrne4348]

Yes but cant the tracks on the diggers be lengthened and widened for bog work ?

[@kevinturner9401]

What is this digging the ditches for?

[@conautos]

+Kevin Turner the machine is making ditches to mark out property boundries and to drian bog also.

[@kevinturner9401]

+Con Morrin thanks!

[@michaeldougfir9807]

+Con Morrin // Is this like buying swampland in Florida?

[@davincrawford912]

+Michael Dougfir No

[@justforever96]

Okay, in America an "excavator' is what you call a "digger". That's what I expected to see. What is the point of draining the bogs? It doesn't look like farmland. Is it just so you can walk out there and hunt, etc without standing in water? Does anyone complain because you're "messing with the delicate wetland ecosystem"?
Also, I know I'm weird, but I just love drab places like that, all browns and greys and cloudy skies. I would love to see the fens and the moors some day.

[@bmurphy0296]

justforever96 if yiu cut thw turf and reclaim it properly you might get away with land suitable for sheep and that it actually wouldn't be too bad for winter and goodnfor summer grazing