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Royal Engineers Killifer Plough and 76mm German Trench Mortar
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The Royal Engineers have this WWI bit of kit at their museum.

 

The plow was used to make shallow signal cable trenches, some say to make disruptive trenches.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarge_schultz/2505550733/in/photostream/

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=2623&sid=60063a63f76eb2260a57e0777f85cbaa

  



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Thanks Chris (never heard of the Killefer plough before) - looks like those are massive mouldboards set up for a sort of chisel effect (sods turned either side). I guess "shallow" is relative, looks like it is meant to go far deeper than any simple mouldboard plough. Would take a lot of grunt to shift that plough at full penetration (3 feet maybe?). I wonder if the share-mouldboard assembly is hinged so as to skip over major underground obstacles? Can't quite make it out but should imagine some sort of provision would need to be made.

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A 1937 version used in tree planting found via google, another version ( no pic ) was used after D-Day by the Royal Engineers for similar purposes as WW1 type.
http://classes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/for442/gallery?page=2

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