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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of potato & root machinery.
September 21, 2005
Driving impression: Grimme Tectron four-row potato harvester Is four the future? Grimme reckons that potato growing is increasingly becoming the preserve of the professional largescale grower, and in direct response has launched its Tectron four-row…
September 21, 2003
More familiar as a big potato machinery specialist, Grimme is transferring some of its spud know-how into the sugar beet sector with the firm’s first selfpropelled six-row harvester unit. Martin Rickatson caught up with the…
November 21, 2001
With its twin separator units, the Grimme SF 1700 GBS self-propelled potato harvester boasts massive digging outputs – up to 150t/hr in certain conditions, according to the German manufacturer. Andrew Faulkner rides on the first…
September 21, 2001
After its first showing at the 1996 Smithfield show, the Grimme GZ1700 harvester range received enough attention over the following year to generate over 80 sales for the 1997 season. Few companies could have hoped…
August 15, 2001
The ability to plant six rows of potatoes at once is not new. It is the sheer size of the rigid planters currently available that has prevented the idea from taking off in the UK.…
March 15, 2001
Every four years, the association of sugar beet growers in the Wüerzburg region of Germany arranges an international demonstration of sugar beet harvesters. Before the demo is open to the public, the Agricultural Machinery Institute…
October 21, 2000
Grimme is building a new generation of selfpropelled potato harvesters. To gain a feel for what’s on offer, Andrew Faulkner climbs aboard the SF 170-60 two-row bunker harvester, the only one of its kind currently…
September 6, 1996
Two-row, direct loading potato harvesters have carved themselves a popular niche in the UK, Holland and France. But these harvesters have several potential drawbacks, the most obvious being the reliance on a trailer. This can…
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