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Classic Machinery: Gairdner engine-on foragers

from 1975 to 1990,Gairdner Complete Contracts converted trailed pto-driven forage harvesters to engine-powered machines for many of Europe's major manufacturers

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 A Muir Hill 110 is pictured in the mid-1970s using a New Holland 892 trailed harvester equipped with a Gairdner Complete Contracts Perkins 540 V8 (150hp) engine-on conversion.
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A Muir Hill 110 is pictured in the mid-1970s using a New Holland 892 trailed harvester equipped with a Gairdner Complete Contracts Perkins 540 V8 (150hp) engine-on conversion.

From 1975 until 1990, a Buckinghamshire agricultural contractor named Charles Gairdner became famous for producing engine-powered trailed forage harvesters. He was not the only person to embrace this concept,...

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