Handling

Doosan, the leading manufacturer of robust high performance forklift trucks, will be assembling a broad range of versatile handling equipment suited to the needs of farming’s specialist root crop sector at BP 2019 – the UK’s leading potato industry event, 20th – 21st November, Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate (Hall 1, Stand 185). Everything potato farmers require for handling and loading produce will be displayed on the Doosan stand. Alongside three of Doosan’s powerful ic engine and electric counterbalance trucks, will be a multi-purpose Telehandler and a compact Skid-Steer loader from Bobcat – part of the Doosan Group and supplied by Bobcat dealership, Grays Machinery. Also, on the stand will be a wide range of specialist truck-mounted box rotators and tippers from leading agricu...

Tompsett Burgess Growers has been farming, processing and storing carrots, parsnips and onions for over 50 years at Whitehall Farm near Ely, Cambridgeshire. With around 1050 acres of prime fen land, the family business produces over 75,000 tonnes of carrots and 9000 tonnes of parsnips a year, and with a late crop of carrots grown in Tayside, Scotland, Tompsett Burgess Growers is able to supply washed, graded and processed carrots to UK and European markets 52 weeks a year. Moving heavy boxes of produce between processes, loading lorries and stacking boxes laden with root crops is punishing work that demands a fleet of robust and reliable forklift trucks. And working long hours throughout the year – inside and out, in all weathers – places a heavy onus on the fleet’s ability to perfo...