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Acre soil shredder (Mark 2R belt / Mark 3R linkage)

Lawrence Edwards & Co. (Engineers) · United Kingdom · 1961–now

Eight-blade soil mill with adjustable grading screen that shreds turf, peat, loam and bulb fibre at 2½-3 cu yd an hour and mixes in fertiliser, ejecting stones at the rear. The Mark 2R stands on the ground and is flat-belt driven from the rear PTO pulley; the Mark 3R hangs on the three-point linkage with a Hardy Spicer shaft straight from the rear PTO. The same leaflet's Acre Mark 4R rotary tiller is a land-driven linkage implement, not PTO-driven.

Acre soil shredder (Mark 2R belt / Mark 3R linkage)
Lawrence Edwards & Co. leaflet 1961, scanned by Hermen Vlothuizen · all-rights-reserved · source
1961–nowMADEPERIOD PRICEVery rareRARITY4LAND ROVER MODELS2SOURCES

Description

Eight-blade soil mill with adjustable grading screen that shreds turf, peat, loam and bulb fibre at 2½-3 cu yd an hour and mixes in fertiliser, ejecting stones at the rear. The Mark 2R stands on the ground and is flat-belt driven from the rear PTO pulley; the Mark 3R hangs on the three-point linkage with a Hardy Spicer shaft straight from the rear PTO. The same leaflet's Acre Mark 4R rotary tiller is a land-driven linkage implement, not PTO-driven.

Rarity. Nursery and parks-department machine from a 1961 approved-implement leaflet; the maker claimed hundreds of users but no Land Rover-mounted example was found for sale in this research.

Record: 2 sources; designation recorded; no price recorded.

Specification

MAKERLawrence Edwards & Co. (Engineers) Ltd, Kidderminster, United Kingdom
DESIGNATION / PARTAcre Mark 2R and Mark 3R (leaflet C.42.R. 561)
MADE1961–now
RARITYVery rare — Nursery and parks-department machine from a 1961 approved-implement leaflet; the maker claimed hundreds of users but no Land Rover-mounted example was found for sale in this research.
OUTPUT2½-3 cu yd/h
MARK 2Rbelt drive from PTO pulley, 30 x 29 x 18 in, 138 lb
MARK 3R3-point linkage, Hardy Spicer shaft from rear PTO, 33 x 29 x 32 in, 144 lb
EXTRAS REQUIREDMk 2R: rear PTO and pulley; Mk 3R: rear PTO and approved 3-point linkage

Fitment

Each model links to the collection filtered to that line.

Variants

Mark 2R1961-

Belt drive from rear PTO pulley

Mark 3R1961-

Linkage mounted, shaft drive from rear PTO

Imagery

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