landmine roller?

mike mckinley · #1 26-07-06, 22:04

hi all

i was looking through the ican website and noticed the item in the attached picture up for auction. is this a landmine roller for exploding mines? if so, what vehicle was/is used to propell it?

thanks

mike

Richard Farrant · #2 26-07-06, 23:02

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Originally posted by mike mckinley
hi all

i was looking through the ican website and noticed the item in the attached picture up for auction. is this a landmine roller for exploding mines? if so, what vehicle was/is used to propell it?

Mike,

That is a sheep's foot roller, usually towed by a dozer, for compounding the ground when building roads, etc.

Richard

mike mckinley · #3 27-07-06, 02:41

hi richard

thanks for that info. i have seen a much smaller version of one of these used on ball fields in the spring.

cheers!!
mike

chris vickery · #4 31-07-06, 23:31

Mike, somewhere around I have a copy of a manual that lists all the types of vehicles onhand as of 1960 in the CF inventory.
I can`t recall the actual name of this manual, maybe Alex Blair has some. Anyhow it shows the above pictured item as an inventoried item used by the RCE

mike mckinley · #5 01-08-06, 05:28

hi chris

i must be loosing my #$%*!( mind down here!! when i spotted it on the ican site, my train of thought was that it was probably from the 70's and it never occured to me to check the manual you described.....which i have. attached is a cropped version of said page from the manual. there was also one with two rollers. cheers!! mike