Self loading Peat harvesting/Turf cutting machine

This is a self built peat harvester/Turf cutting machine. It is self loading, as seen in the video, the cleaner removes the top layer of vegetation, where a series of buckets harvest the peat from the bank, loading into a macerator, which mixes the peat and extrudes onto a conveyor at the ear of the machine, this is ejected off the conveyor in lines approx 40ft in length, the process is repeated for the desired distance/run of the bog.
The machine is powered by a Deutz V8 air cooled engine, which powers the hydraulics for the tracks, cleaner,spreader, digger etc.
Video taken in Galway Ireland.
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[@JohnCamerota-jg6wt]

Fascinating machine!

[@michealotuathail6253]

Thanks John, have a few more must get them up, we recently finished a turning machine which turns the turf for drying, and arranges it in rows for loading. Will have to get a video together of that.

[@JohnCamerota-jg6wt]

You can tell a lot of thought went into it.
The auger to clear the sod off the top is pretty clever. I have seen similar augers used with utility trenchers to push spoil away from the trench. Very nice.

[@robertovolpato406]

Pazzesco sta macchina una fabbrica su cingoli

[@jasonkerins3807]

One similar used be working outside castleisland years ago, unfortunately it got cut up during a night and robved for scrap

[@michealotuathail6253]

It happens unfortunately!

[@nikola7397]

Для чего это делается?

[@michealotuathail6253]

Hi Nikola, peat is harvested and dried to use for burning/fuel for heating of homes. This one is in Ireland where peat harvesting or turf cutting is a tradition where oil etc was not readily available.