Piece by piece
Alstonville is a quiet town, nestled in the hinterlands of northern NSW and surrounded by rolling hillside farmland.
It was here, as the macadamia industry began to boom through the late 1980s, that Robert Eggins began tailoring his 20-year established business towards the macadamia industry.
Servicing operators with maintenance, repairs and modifications to harvesting, he soon realised what was lacking when it came to efficient and purpose-built machines.
Along with his son, David, he developed a lightweight, commercial grade harvester, equipped with sweeping mechanisms and reduced stalling capacity for wet weather operations. Today, there are
