- Location
- Lincolnshire
The cadet had what looked like rollers with discs then Opel wheels from what I recall. The steering lever worked on the disc/rollers.The addition of Blench guide arms and Opel wheels replacing the front wheels was a major step forward. Uncles used to put me as a 12 year old on the Cadet side platform to steer the thing with that metal pole.
Father fitted guide skids to the Standen trailed machine which were quite effective. It had no independent steering. We had to poke the tank out with sticks on clay land and pick lumps of clay off the discharge elevator. The tipping tank of the cyclone and much more accurate control of Opal wheel depth eliminated the problem of harvesting clods. A big step forward. You could steer it much more precisely and so run at shallow depths plucking the beet out of wet clay very cleanly with practice. You just didn’t have the required vision and level of control on the trailed machines to do that.