Old Taskers traction engine trailer

Barleycorn

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Hampshire
Thanks for the info, farmer up the road said he bought a cultivator from an auction and said he thought we had one just like it. Which we have, he wanted to know what make it was, ours didn’t have a plate but I think my Grandad bought it in the early 80’s. I looked in my Grandads bought in machinery book and saw he bought it in 1984 for £162.50. Looked for Taskers info online but only found a similar cultivator for sale on eBay. It was the orange colour.

What year did they pack up?
Not sure of the exact date, but around the early eighties. Interestingly for anyone local Roger Hunt, now sadly gone, but Forest Hunt JD dealers still thriving, was part of a consortium that bought the site and developed it. He then owned a house opposite the works, and actually started his dealership in a small yard next door before going onto part of the Chilbolton WW2 airdrome where they still are.
 

Hindsight

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Lincolnshire
A bit off topic but what happened to growing chicory????? A elderly chap in the village often remenises about how they used to grow chicory and it all went to a factory out lakenheath way i believe.
I know it was used to make coffee but that's all. Did cheap imports of real coffee put pay to it???

I detested the stuff but my brother lapped it up.

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I had 2, super, simple, reliable machines. They were overtaken by the need for spreading fertiliser wider and later in the season. The change to tramlines and wider spreading killed them off.
I rather think that every other farmer in the south owned a Taskers Fertispread.
I forgot to insert the quote before I wrote my bit. Why can't we cut and paste when typing posts?
 

Two Tone

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Mixed Farmer
I detested the stuff but my brother lapped it up.

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Would probably have tasted much nicer if they left the chicory out!

It had a unique flavour but my grandparents loved it. This was in the days before instant coffee was available and when it became available by the likes of Nescafé, usually came in tin with a foil seal.
Coffee would come in beans, sometimes roasted, often not. Everybody had a coffee grinder until the farmer husbands stole it to grind grain for their Marconi moisture meters.

Camp Coffee might have been a very quick way of making any coffee to drink.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
Would probably have tasted much nicer if they left the chicory out!

It had a unique flavour but my grandparents loved it. This was in the days before instant coffee was available and when it became available by the likes of Nescafé, usually came in tin with a foil seal.
Coffee would come in beans, sometimes roasted, often not. Everybody had a coffee grinder until the farmer husbands stole it to grind grain for their Marconi moisture meters.

Camp Coffee might have been a very quick way of making any coffee to drink.
just as todays generation laugh at me preferring Necafe Gold to a Mochavatiolattecappaccino 600 calorie confection that I have had to wait 20 minutes for. :ROFLMAO:
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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