Pathe news reel- Machinery demonstration 1949

[terrano]

I just came across this video of a walk behind machinery demonstration in 1949. I havent seen it posted before so I thought it might be of interest.

[charlie]

Some great footage. Now who can list all the different machines shown?

[joegrgraham]

Great video, but who got the job of catching the Fordson???

Joe.

[charlie]

I have seen another film with a Rototiller doing the same unmanned trick, all in the good old days before Health & Safety.

[trusty-mad]

whats the machine at 1:00?

[will-haggle]

That, I think, is a Wild Midget….

[sidevalve44]

Of course in the good old days before Health & safety, people were regularly killed or maimed, and as for those contraptions spraying potentially dangerous chemicals for the operator to walk into and breathe in they don’t bear thinking about !!

[steve-d]

what a fab film very impressed as I saw the colwood with the rotary disc mower on the front and ive only ever seen pictures of this.
grrrrrrreat.

[franktonpaget]

Not only interesting but informative , the machine being towed by the Ransomes MG is a Weeks Swing Fan Dusting Machine,I had never seen one with the discharge fan so low but looking at the one I have found a lever which gives six different positions for the fan outlet
I understand the machines were intended for fan blown application of chemical dusting powders to fruit trees,hops and ground crops the one I have came from a blackcurrent growing farm.

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