Farmer-built kit

Farmers are ingenious at building customised kit for those gaps that manufacturers have not yet filled – they’re also pretty handy with power tools. Read about some of the clever kit farmers have built to solve problems or save a bit of cash.

Table of contents:

• Farm-built dribble bar improves contractor’s slurry accuracy
• Farmer saves cash by 3D printing parts for home-built drill
• Farmer builds ingenious twin-chamber double square baler
• Custom-built cultivators offers money-saving alternative
• Farmer’s home-made subsoiler-harrow smashes clay soils
• Surrey farmer builds 4m no-till drill on a £2,000 budget
• Farmer builds £24,000 strip-till drill from scratch
• How clever mobile cow mast helps improve beef breeding
• Borders contractor builds £47,000 slurry spreading system