Classic farm machine designed and built by a farmer for a farmer

This week, I take you to a job familiar to thousands of livestock farmers, one rich in aroma, one that comes around at this time of year with unfailing regularity.

This is a job shirked by few, yet enjoyed by almost nobody.

As every farmer knows, stirring a lagoon with a quarter million or more litres of raw cow slurry is essential if the contents are going to be pumped or sucked out and spread on the land. At today’s fertiliser costs, every one of those litres is saving something. The standard slurry stirrer has a shaft and propeller sticking straight out from the rear of the tractor, so the tractor has to be parked at right angles to the lagoon.