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[CGT 535]

Not sure how I found this, but have a look at http://www.wemoto.com/news/article/1036/ploughing_on

[PeteF]

I saw a few Enfields being pressed into service in India.

[ChrisD]

Wow, you could plough your own cycle lane with that!
Watch out pedestrians, SUV's and James Bond.
ChrisD

[jefrs]

Not entirely sure. Here in the UK (and such elsewhere) we only plough land that can be ploughed with a tractor, land that has long been cleared of rocks and obstacles. Land that is too steep for a tractor (they do tip over) can only be ploughed with a horse, or not bother; mostly not bother although some farmers still horse plough the odd patch as a bit of a hobby. A horse or ox-plough can manage land that a vehicle cannot cope with, but then you do have to care for the beasts, and care for them all year round even when they are not working.

[Bullet Whisperer]

A crawler tractor will go almost anywhere and they are pretty handy for ploughing steep ground, although less of it is done these days, due to 'set aside' schemes and the like. I once rotovated a very steep hillside using a large 2 wheel drive tractor. Without the rotovator, the tractor would have just flipped over backwards trying to get up the slope, but with the rotovator running behind it, the 'push' it imparted on the tractor kept the front end down. Good job for me that the tractor's PTO shaft didn't break for that job, like it did not long afterwards while on flatter ground !

[PeteF]

Something like this BW?

Yes, I know that's a topper and not a rotovator attachment. I could do with one of those and a flail mower.
The machine was actually made by Ferrari, so I can honestly say "My other vehicle is a Ferrari.
It has a 10HP Lombardini petrol engine and is quite a handful when it's trying hard. I've mowed grass with this which feels like it vertical!

[PeteF]

Jefrs, Just post WW2, when tractors were hard to come by, you could get a plough attachment for the (then) new fangled Landrover.
They will go to 45 degrees an I just remember a local farmer using his into the 60s to plough odd bits of land that his Field Marshall tractor rig couldn't get in to.
Us lads used to help him get that Marshall started - it's not a single handed task.

[PeteF]

Talking of Indian vehicles.

And amazingly, this is not a one off machine. They are actually manufactured. The engine is the ubiquitous (for India) Lister copy.

[Bullet Whisperer]

Hi Pete F, no, not like that, although I have a Howard garden rotovator. The tractor was an International 634 and the rotovator went on the 3 point hitch at the rear and was 8 feet wide. I am not up to posting pictures here, but here are some other 634 tractors ... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inter ... IIg#imgrc=_

[PeteF]

Two wheel DRIVE tractors!
(note to self - read the damn post properly)