Many will have already seen previous posts about Mecmar’s new Super Range. Having been re-designed and extensively improved they are performing strongly on their debut season in the UK. The Super Range currently consists of a 7 and 10 tonne capacity drier.
The Super Range is a smaller variant of Mecmar’s larger capacity driers that maintains the same high levels of design and specification. This has been reflected in initial on-farm results in the UK. The driers are exceeding expectations in terms of throughput and farmers have commented on the ease of use and flexibility offered.
Below is a new slideshow presenting the Mecmar Super Range and some of the key features.
I recently came across a book called Drying and Storing Combinable Crops by K. A. McLean, it was published in 1980. A small section (one and half pages in fact) is dedicated to mobile batch grain driers. It is a fantastic indicator of the changes in the UK market in the last 30 years. It also offers some very good advice that is still as true today as it was back then. I will briefly reflect on some of the more interesting points it raises.