
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2008 40th Anniversary of the biggest festival of this kind in the world . Working demonstration of old vintage trencher,this is a Parsons ladder ditcher from Newton Iowa USA, made under licence by John Allen and sons from Oxford UK A trencher pioneer. George W. Parsons Digital Camera used Panasonic DMC-TZ3 By: Landberg, Lynn George W. Parsons was one of the pioneers in manufacturing trenching machines. His first and smallest trencher was built in 1905, after which his trencher grew larger through the years. The biggest trencher, the 355, is capable of digging a 25-ft trench and was designed for pipe trenching. His company was sold several times, ending up with Seaman-Maxon. The last trencher under the Parsons name was manufactured in 1984. George Parsons began building trenchers in 1905. Although his company was sold several times, his name endures One of the pioneers in the manufacturing of trenching equipment was George W. Parsons, who began building trenchers in 1905 and soon was offering some of the smallest and largest trenchers around. Parsons' first trencher was a ladder trencher, or ditcher, so called because buckets were attached to a continuous chain, giving it the appearance of a ladder. The ladder assembly was lowered into the ditch, the chain turned, the buckets filled and the material was carried topside and discharged onto a side conveyor for dumping alongside the trench or into a truck. The counterpart of the ladder ditcher was the <b>...</b>
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