To be fair, Mark Weatherhead had the Deutz-Fahr franchise pretty briefly, swapping it for McCormick when Collings were given Deutz after being dropped by Case IH, so they were never competing alongside each other for D-F business. It is a big shame, as you say. They seemed to retain a lot of...
Never assume. Cereals has been held on a Wed/Thu for as long as I can remember, but I've just realised this year's dates fall on a Tue/Wed. Bit of a pain to reorganise other things that week. lesson learned. Wonder why they have moved the dates though? Tuesday used to work well as a first day.
Would you go down this route to do a few acres of grass on a stock farm each year? Or get in a contractor? Are balers at that sort of budget likely to cost more to maintain than a contractor would cost to hire in? Just wondering on past experiences with a troublesome mower. If f spending that...
I had seen this before, but not for a while. A bit before my time ('94-'97). For any old Wye students out there, I've just taken over the editorship of the old students annual again, and am keen to hear from anyone happy to pen a few words about wheat they've been doing since leaving. It's a...
You know that old saying about the best way to make a small fortune being to start with a large one? I can't think of any current faster way to lose money than putting it into pigs. Investing in land is one thing. Spending it on sure-fire money-losers is quite another. With feed (grain) prices...
Had a chance to look around both of these at the Festival of Speed at Goodwood last week. Is there anyone on here running the LR yet? And anyone tempted by the Grenadier when it becomes available next year?
For a journalist who spends his time writing about mechanical things, he doesn’t seem to have much interest in finding out how machines work. Or is he running some type of secret prototype combine with a novel unloading system...?
A few more old Braceys of Benington photos I've found from a report on an open day in 1952, not long after this depot, built to an International Harvester design, was constructed. Anyone who used Braceys or who uses Ernest Doe's branch at Benington today will recognise the building.
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