The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2016 - Issue 44 | Page 9

R.M Simpson  Trailers & Agricultural Services Our agricultural product range satisfies the requirements of the latest specialised tractors through to older types of farming machinery, including: · Milking machines, · Chainsaws, · Stationary Engines, · Hydraulically Operated Plant PROVIDING QUALITY AGRICULTURAL TRAILERS & EQUIPMENT Proud suppliers of oils to RM Simpson Proud suppliers to R.M Simpson for over 15 years [email protected] • Tel: 07836738747 Tel: 01422 375 555 Fax: 01422 375 500 Mon-Fri 8am-6pm · Sat 8am-12pm tractors nights and weekends . His first tractor was £780 a new baler £4500 – how times have changed. He remembers back then driving open back cabs in all weathers clattered and thrown around with primitive suspension etc. Nowadays, in the closed cab of his John Deere with the heater on that all seems a long way off. So comfortable is that cab in fact that Miles admits he virtually runs his entire business from there, as he has a mobile phone, Walkie Talkie and iPad all in there so he can pick up and send emails, including evening work schedules (gritting) take calls etc particularly when he is slurry spreading as the tractor only moves at idling speed which doesn’t do engines a lot of favours. As an interesting demonstration of just how up to date things really are, when one of his men wanted access to his yard 20 odd miles away, Miles opened t H