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Agrifac’s new FastFoldPlus can unfold a 48 metre (157.5 foot) sprayer boom in 22 seconds.
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Agrifac speeds things up

FastFoldPlus boom system deploys in seconds

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Dutch sprayer manufacturer Agrifac just added a new feature to its unique line of SP sprayers, the FastFoldPlus boom. This new system significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to fold and unfold the boom. Although exact times vary depending on the overall width, the company says a three-fold, 48 metre (157.5 foot) boom […] Read more
The new Chembine chemical mixer was introduced in September.
Machinery

Bourgault introduces the Chembine

A new chemical mixer from the brand’s Free Form Plastics division

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In late September Bourgault Industries’ Free Form Plastics division announced the market introduction of its Chembine chemical mixer. “The Chembine incorporates all the features of existing chemical mixers plus adds more user friendly features and several patent pending new designs,” reads the company’s news release. Among those new features is a newly designed knife block […] Read more
This hood salvaged from a 1960 Ford truck will become the lid for a customized workshop toolbox.
Machinery

How to build a custom tool box, Part 1

We turn an old truck hood into a one-off shop storage box, in the Grainews Garage


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The 1960 Ford F-600 truck sitting outside the Grainews Garage with a body that was far too rusty to repair made us wonder what to do with it, so we started looking at what parts we could salvage and what we could do with them. One of the things that was still in good condition […] Read more
Tom Wolf speaking at Manitoba Ag Days.
Machinery

Industry expert says we’re in a cycle

Tom Wolf offered some observations of today’s sprayers and practices during a presentation

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During his public presentation at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon in January, sprayer expert Tom Wolf, who is part of Agrimetrix Research & Training in Saskatchewan, provided a professional critique of today’s commercially available spraying equipment and on-farm practices. He told the audience about an early, low-cost sprayer his family put together on their farm […] Read more
During a training exercise, students hid around a tractor while another student in the cab tried to spot them, most remained unseen. That highlighted the need to do a walk around before starting machinery.
Machinery

U of M hopes to expand machine safety training

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As a group of students were clustered around and under a tractor, another student in the cab looked out to try and see them. It was all part of the University of Manitoba’s first tractor safety training day. The point of the exercise was to show a class of ag students how many bind spots […] Read more
Students in the U. of M. ag certificate program took part in a pilot project that added a machinery safety-training day to their course.
Machinery

U of M holds first tractor safety day

Pilot project aims to teach ag students about on-farm machinery safety

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Last weekend I found myself sitting in the local Tim Hortons having coffee with a retired farmer. He was missing some fingers on his left hand from an amputation. And it made me think of how many retired — and current — farmers I know just in this area that have similar injuries from a […] Read more
Merlo retools
Features, Machinery

Merlo retools

The telehandler company is going through a major update of its product line and manufacturing facility

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As he stood in front of a group of Canadian dealers and customers at his Cuneo, Italy, facility, Amilcare Merlo, owner of the company that produces Merlo telehandlers, explained that his firm was in the midst of a 150 million Euro (C$208 million) reinvestment project. It’s aimed not only at updating the brand’s manufacturing facility, […] Read more
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Crops, Dairy Cattle, Forages, Machinery

Robot milker firm Lely to shed forage equipment business

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Dutch dairy equipment manufacturer Lely, best known in the Canadian market for its robotic milking systems, plans to focus on that business and sell its forage equipment lines to Agco. The two companies announced Monday they have an agreement in principle for Lely to sell its forage division, including two German manufacturing plants, to U.S.-based […] Read more

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