Foxcover
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I’ve just googled what a Claas Apollo is.
Absolutely mental! Never seen one before.
Thriplow Annual Report
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I’ve just googled what a Claas Apollo is.
Absolutely mental! Never seen one before.
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
The mid ‘70’s fuel crisis killed the whole idea off.
- Location
- Yorks
Some very good wheat and barley yied averages there David.
Sad job for us all (me included) when £500/ha Stewardship options look more attractive than growing crops.
Sad job for us all (me included) when £500/ha Stewardship options look more attractive than growing crops.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
In our area there were several big plants put up which closed within a very short time of being put up in the seventies.
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
A bit more on this. Dad is still around at the age of nearly 95 and fully compus mentis. I see my parents most days. I mentioned this thread to him today and he remembered the day the Apollo was delivered from Kings Lynn docks. There was no ramp at Thriplow Farms so Oliver arrived with a Drott and dug a hole.
That Apollo was the only one ever sold in the UK but Dad did have a friend near Dereham in Norfolk who had a Taarup version.
That Apollo was the only one ever sold in the UK but Dad did have a friend near Dereham in Norfolk who had a Taarup version.
Not grass drying /grass nuts it didnt .
Grass Harvesting Equipment sale with interesting prologue
I just thought I'd share this as I found it an interesting read; THE FOLLOWING TEXT HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE OWNER OF AYLESCOTT FEEDS & DRIERS, MR ALAN FRASER-SMITH TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND TO THE BUSINESS AND INFORM CUSTOMERS NEW AND OLD OF THEIR INTENTIONS MOVING FORWARD. Changes at...
thefarmingforum.co.uk
mostly gone now though .
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
What I should have said was that it limited growth of grass drying. Of course some of the commercial dryers were able to keep going, often selling in to the horse sector or by other added value means.Not grass drying it didnt .
Grass Harvesting Equipment sale with interesting prologue
I just thought I'd share this as I found it an interesting read; THE FOLLOWING TEXT HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE OWNER OF AYLESCOTT FEEDS & DRIERS, MR ALAN FRASER-SMITH TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND TO THE BUSINESS AND INFORM CUSTOMERS NEW AND OLD OF THEIR INTENTIONS MOVING FORWARD. Changes at...
mostly gone now though .
The Apollo was aimed at farmers for home consumption.
Aylescott grass driers was very much for Cattle and sheep (farm ) feeds it was only latterly that the horse type feeds were made/sold more
but Yes quite unique .
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Maybe it was silage what killed the demand.A change in cow diet with the increased cost of grass nuts. My aunt's family still dry grass/Lucerne but it's aimed at horses and another in Lincolnshire dries it to extract chlorophyll.Not grass drying /grass nuts it didnt .
Grass Harvesting Equipment sale with interesting prologue
I just thought I'd share this as I found it an interesting read; THE FOLLOWING TEXT HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE OWNER OF AYLESCOTT FEEDS & DRIERS, MR ALAN FRASER-SMITH TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND TO THE BUSINESS AND INFORM CUSTOMERS NEW AND OLD OF THEIR INTENTIONS MOVING FORWARD. Changes at...
mostly gone now though .
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Was a huge grass drying,pelleting operation in Caithness too.
Bonkers!
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Brilliant. I thought I was living in the third world. That’s like the edge of the world.
Foxcover
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I was up there for a wedding in 2014, it’s grim, wildly beautiful but grim.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
My Grandfather had a factory in Forres which I thought was in Iceland however I was wrong.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
That burst them
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Carrots?
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Waterproof clothing.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
£700,000 for 28,000 acres. Anyone got a time machine?
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
That's prime arable compared to where I'm from!