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    The Auto Drop

    May 07, 2021 5 minutes

    In the January 2021 issue I looked at the restoration of Stephen Crawford’s green Taarup single-chop harvester and in the article I mentioned that Stephen was planning to have a special trailer made to team up with the harvester for working days.

    With the trailer completed I returned to see it in all its glory. Many of you may never have seen one before and for those that haven’t it was called the Auto Drop trailer – and not only does it look different to a normal silage trailer, but it also operates in a different manner when discharging the silage or forage loads.

    This trailer operates without the use of hydraulics. It does not tip the load out like a normal silage trailer, but uses

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