New Holland delivers Boomer 3040 tractor to Paisley hospital
The reliable and adaptable machine will be used at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley after its purchase from Lanark-based Bryson Tractors Ltd, which covers central Scotland. The Boomer 3040 replaces a 30-year-old Massey Ferguson and is being deployed for general grounds maintenance such as grass cutting and sweeping. Hospital Estates Officer Colin Purdon said: […]
Cattle system granted patent
The new system (UK patent No:GB2469840) comprises a heavy duty mobile feeder unit with a protected central passageway and choice of barrier styles. It has one or two containment pens incorporating gates and emergency exits. It’s designed to make catching and containing cattle quicker, easier and safer. “It’s great news. The process has been long […]
Young farmer tells FUW leaders about his globetrotting tractor work
Will, the 25-year-old son of Farmers’ Union of Wales members Hefin and Sue Ellis, of Hafod Olau, Islaw’r Dref, near Dolgellau, was working in Turkey in his globetrotting role as an international product technical specialist with CNH, a world leader in the agricultural and construction equipment businesses. On a rare visit home to the family […]
First new Bobcat S550 Skid-Steer Loader sold into UK farming
Ladebank Piggery, the family-owned pig farm based at Wrangle, north of Boston in Lincolnshire, has purchased the first Bobcat 500 platform compact loader in the UK farming industry. The new S550 skid-steer loader was purchased from AMS Bobcat, the Authorised Bobcat Dealer based in Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire. Nigel Smith, owner of Ladebank Piggery, which rears […]
Tractor Registrations Regional Analysis 9 months
UK registrations of agricultural tractors (over 50hp) reached 11,851 units in the first 9 months of 2011, an increase of 3.8% on the same period in the previous year. The regions showing the largest increases were Northern Ireland (+15%), and Yorks/Lancs (+12.5%). Of note was that the Eastern counties saw a decline of […]
Tractor Registrations Regional Analysis 9 months
UK registrations of agricultural tractors (over 50hp) reached 11,413 units in the first 9 months of 2010, a decline of 12.6% on the same period in the previous year. No region saw an increase in tractor registrations but the strongest relative performances were in the South East (-6.8%), the East (-7.1%) and the North (-7.3%). […]
BorPower
BORPower – the Holy Grail of vehicle oil has been found After years of failed attempts, the Holy Grail of vehicle oil has finally been found. BORPower is an oil additive scientifically proven in Europe, the US and now the UK to improve fuel consumption. Available in the UK from this week after recent rigorous […]
