Potato Review

www.potatoreview.com POTATO REVIEW JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 45 MACHINERY More grower support in South-West GRIMME UK now has a new partner supporting growers in the South West of the UK. Somerset, Devon and Cornwall will now be covered by Hamblys whose portfolio of franchises currently includes manufacturers such as Claas, Lemken and Horsch. Hamblys has ve depots covering the South West, which includes key potato growing locations. is appointment means GRIMME UK can consolidate from three separate dealerships to just one covering the south west. GRIMME UK’s Managing Director Patrick Graf Grote said “We would like to reassure customers that GRIMME will work hard to make this transition as smooth as possible. Parts and service will continue to be readily available in the coming weeks, as would usually be expected by our customer base.” HAMBLYS Managing Director Steve Barrett said becoming a GRIMME ‘Premium Partner’ for the South West, meant it could expand its range and better serve the region’s growers. “Our Sales, Service and Parts teams will be getting up to speed rapidly,” he said. Irish dealer o ers full Scotts range, as two new toppers prepared for 2021 launch SCOTTS Precision Manufacturing, which designs and manufactures vegetable cleaning and harvesting equipment, has added Quaile Machinery in Ireland to its dealer network. Operating from its headquarters in Co Dublin, Quaile Machinery will sell the full range of Trinity haulm toppers, Evolution separators, Microlift fully mounted windrowers, Windrower conversion kits and replacement wearing parts. It will also o er servicing and be the sole importer of Scotts’ spiral roller segments which are suitable for use on GRIMMEmachines. Established in 2012 by Kenny Quaile, the company currently represents Pottinger, Kubota, Scanstone, Dewulf and Deutz-Fahr. Following the banning of Diquat, Scotts has seen demand for its toppers double in the past year, 14 years after its rst topper, the Trinity 22B 2 row haulm topper, was made. e range now comprises the Trinity 6000 six-row folding topper, the Trinity 22 Bulb Speci c, the Trinity 30B which can work on three 36” rows or four 30” rows, the xed Trinity 36B four x 36” rows and the xed Trinity 54B 6 x 36” row version both with end tow kits. e two latest additions to the range - the Trinity 36B four-row topper and the Trinity 54B six-row topper - were recently put through their paces in Scotland and Lincolnshire ahead of a launch in early 2021. e Trinity 36B features dual drive and a split rotor with centre bearing and has been designed as an a ordable high output machine for growers with less than 300 acres. e Trinity 54B features the same style of drive and rotor as the 36B both come complete with road wheels and drawbar. It o ers high output, at a lower price point of its agship Trinity 6000 folding version. Conversion kit for GRIMME harvester Scotts recently launched a conversion kit that allows owners of the GRIMME GT 170 trailed harvester to convert to a fully functioning windrower without modi cations to the host machine. Designed in response to local growers where the Grimme GT170 is their preferred choice of harvester, the Scotts GT170 Windrower conversion kit directly replaces the elevator module. As the kit is attached to the harvester through existing elevator xing points, there is no need to modify the host machine and this can be returned to its original set-up quickly. e kit, which costs £20,000, comes fully assembled with hydraulic hoses and cables for direct connection