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FArM gAtE NEWS the Farmer’s Newsletter Phone 1800 088 528 email [email protected]

Grant ShedS PO Box 29, Monash, Sa 5342 fax 08 8583 5402 web www.grantsheds.com.au

A BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TO INFORM AND ENTERTAIN YOU

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2013

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Christmas At MonashChristmas and 2012 have come and gone so quickly and we’re now well into 2013, but I just thought I’d give you an insight into our Christmas.

We hold our family Christmas function on the evening of Christmas eve.

No, we don’t have a harvest to contend with that clashes with the Christmas season but Danny still remembers the family tension and stress of such times. His parents had a mixed fruit property and Christmas was always smack bang in the middle of apricots.

Danny’s family is Austrian and their Xmas tradition is for gift giving to be done on Xmas eve.

We’ve chosen to continue the Christmas Eve time slot so that our adult children can have Christmas Day free to go to their partners families events. It works for us.

But here’s the extra we add in which is really great fun...

When the families arrive (around 18 people in all), there are no presents under the tree ... Well Santa hasn’t been yet, has he?!!

The kids are all excited. They play together and talk excitedly with any adult who’ll listen to tell them Santa will be coming soon.

They are like a box of popcorn in the microwave...

pop pop poppity pop pop ... with all their excited chatter.

We share our meal of entrees and main course setting around a huge table. Then, when the sun is setting, the evening sky is darkening and the kidlets are bursting with anticipation, and can wait no longer for Santa’s arrival ... we hook up our Christmas decorated dinghy to the back of the ute.

Everyone clambers in and we set off around the dirt tracks and roadways around our Monash mallee scrub block, the Grant Sheds factory, just 1/2 km away, and the dirt roads by our neighbours.

We are searching for Santa, watching the stars as they appear and wondering if any of them are actually Rudolph and his red nose heading our way.

We sing Christmas carols at the top of our lungs and get even louder as we pass our neighbours homes.

As the night sky darkens , we head home to check if Santa has been. As if by magic, just as we get home we hear Santa’s bell and a loud ‘Ho Ho Ho’ as the children rush inside ... But he’s already gone. The Christmas presents are laid out haphazardly under the tree as he’s left them in his hurry.

Imagine the kids excitement as they run into the lounge and see that large pile of brightly wrapped presents.

The rest, of course, is like any family with little children as they excitedly rip open the presents and share their open and natural excitement and immense joy.

It’s a joyful and heart warming event to experience and we love it every year.

How did you spend Christmas? What are your family traditions? I’d love to hear from you and maybe share some in our newsletter.

Cheers for now

Ali & Danny & Our Grant Sheds Team

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We Welcome New Members To Our “Grant Sheds Family”We are delighted to welcome the following people into our “Grant Sheds Family”. As you can see our family members (shed buyers) come from a broad geographic area (see map next page) and buy a wide range of shed types. And there are lots who have bought multple “Aussie Tough” Grant Sheds over the years.I’ve marked those with a red asterisk *. It’s quite amazing to see how many repeat buyers we have and we thank you sincerely for your ongoing support and appreciation of the efforts we put in to give you great communications, service and strong sheds. That is our forte and we promise to continue to do just that.

Greg Lowe Hamley Bridge Leanto 9m x 21m x 6m James Robins Loxton Garage 7.5m x 9m x 3m* Glen Hoffmann Loxton Machinery shed portion* Lyell Schulz South Kilkerran Machinery shed 15m x 24m x 5.1m Ken Greaves Wentworth Machinery shed 9m x 18m x 4.5m Neil Kohlhagen Maitland Machinery shed 2m x 22.5m x 5.1m* Phillip & Greg Hand Murray Bridge Machinery shed 12m x 22.5m x 5.1m* Gypsum Resources Penong Leanto 7m x 30m x 5.7m Andrew Marwood Irymple Bulk Grain Shed 15m x 36m x 6.3m Andrew Schulz Karoonda Machinery shed 12mx 18m x 6.3m Matt Watkins Loveday Garage 6m x 9m x 2.7m Marcus Spangler Loveday Garage 6m x 9m x 2.4m* Berri Caravan Park Berri Extension 7.5m x 9m x 2.7m Chris Lehmann Kimba Machinery shed 15m x 30m x 5.4m* Darren Millar Nandaly Machinery shed 15m x 30m x 6.3m Monte Barclay Corny Point Leanto 9m x 24m x 4.6m Jack Grover Murray Bridge Machinery shed 12m x 12m x3.6m Kingsley Schutz Eudunda Garage 6m x 12m x 2.7m Bogden Krawczuk Renmark Garage 6m x 9m x 2.4m* Accolade Wines Berri Carport 3.7m x 12m x 3m

* Ash Corbett Underbool Machinery shed 9m x 15m x 4.2m* Greg Brown Underbool Machinery shed 9m x 12m x 3.6m Charlie’s Group Renmark Garage 7.5m x 9m x 3m Craig Sanders Meningie Garage 6m x 9m x 2.7m Kevin Furst Middleton Machinery shed 12m x 18m x 3m Ron Harrison Sea Lake Machinery shed 12m x 18m x 5.1m * Peter Tsegas Barmera Extension* Lynton Murray Penong Leanto 10.5m x 15m x 6.3m Peter Thomas Perth WA Sliding Roof Fertliser shed 7.5m x 9m Murray Chapman Perth WA Sliding Roof Fertliser shed 7.5m x 9m Rebecca Ebert Truro Garage 7.5m x 9m x 2.7m Tim Humby Barmera Garage 7.5m x 18m x 2.7m* Anthony Curran Robinvale Leanto 9m x 18m x 5.1m Trevor Dahlenburg Pt Germein Machinery shed 12m x 27m x 5.1m Rick Lienert Coomandook Sliding Roof Fertliser Shed 7.5m x 15m Peter Hibbert Daveyston Garage 7m x 9m x 2.5m Sam Germein Sandilands Machinery shed 12m x 22.5m x 4.2m Dion Andary Two Wells Machinery shed 12m x 18m x 3.6m Colin McDonald Boinka Leanto 6m x 18m x 5.3m Sam Woolford Kimba Machinery shed 12m x 30m x 6m

What Makes Country Life So Good?

COMMUNITYSee You At The Field Days 15th-16th March - Fri-Sat South East Field Days - LucindaleIf you’d like some help with your shed planning we are happy to assist. Or just call in for a chat. We’d love to see you.

We take a photo of our extended family each Xmas ... Danny’s

side and Ali’s side ... Everyone who is at our Xmas eve event.

It’s amazing to watch the changing family dynamics over years as

people grow older, our kids add partners and children are added.

Our family at Christmas

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Danny pointed out to our butcher that we had not paid for Xmas hams Danny had collected as Christmas gifts for our staff and builders, even though the butcher had written ‘Paid’ on the invoice.

Muller’s Meat Store is an award-winning butcher with multiple wins on their range of gourmet sausages.

Danny always buys our meat from them. It’s much better than supermarket meat. We rarely buy steak when dining out because we’ve been so spoiled with great quality meat from Mullers Meat Store, Monash.

Hey Danny,Wow, I can’t believe I made that mistake.Thank you so much for your honesty. Your integrity isappreciated.

Daryl MullerMuller’s Meat Store

Monash SA

You Little RipperLOCAL AUSSIE LEGENDS

Grant Telfer &The Old Monash Playground

Cherie Troy OMG, that’s huge! Don’t think I would go on that now aahhhhhh!Garry Pahl I helped build the big one. Sean James Tasker Went there on a yr 7 camp, had a f****n ball riding slides with a sack Raymond Bendessi Thanks to all who built Monash Playground. You have made millions of memories for people you will never meet but who will always be grateful. Again I thank you for the memories Irene Batas The good old days luv you Monash my home town.

Nick Klonaris I lived right next to the playground.Long weekends and school holidays the playground was packed with people. Cars parked outside the school oval passed the tennis courts and continued for another hundred meters on both sides of the road including our driveway. It was a huge tourist attraction. I remember Grant riding his bike. White overalls barefoot and his radio playing some tune. I imagined his feet would be that tough a nail wouldn’t pierce his skin. What a legend!

Anyone who has been receiving our FARM GATE NEWS since it’s inception in September 2011 will have read The Grant Sheds Story and how we are connected to the much-remembered Old Monash Playground (since dismantled due to insurance issues).

You can check out back-issues of FARM GATE NEWS on our web site using this file path www.grantsheds.com.au/newsletter then scroll down to the Sept-Oct 2011 issue and the story is on page 2 & 3.

But briefly, Grant Telfer (Ali’s Dad) started Grant Sheds in 1952. He also later built the Old Monash Playground which was 5 acres of wierd and wonderfully unusual playground equipment that catered for both children and adults.

People from across the state, and interstate, have vivid memories of exhilarating times spent there.

Some comments follow from the ‘Monash Playground Grant Park’ Facebook pages. Do you remember the Old Monash Playground? We’d love to hear your memories. And if anyone has video we’d love copies of that for our family archives as we don’t have much.

Grant Telfer at the Old Monash Playground in thelate 70’s. This is the 45’ high Figure 8 Spiral Slide. Another 2 slides were later added off the same tower.

Wise farmers from across South Australia, western Vic & NSW invest in “Aussie Tough” Grant Sheds.

This map shows the locations of sheds ordered over the last few months. As you can see our ”Grant Sheds Family” covers a wide spread area - even as far as Perth in WA!

Our builders declined to travel to Perth (though they were asked) but they travel to all the other locations on this map.

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Dianne & Michael Anderson’s 9m x 9m x 3.6m Grant Sheds Home Car Shed It has plenty of space for their 4WD and plenty of height clearance for the caravan. Farmers deserve a good looking , functional shed near the house to protect personal vehicles and ‘toys’ from our harsh Aussie weather and from theft. A 6m lean-to on the back allows easy parking of the farm ute close to home too.

Mallee Farmers Changing To Keep FARM PROFITABLE

Dianne & Michael Anderson of Karoonda explain how they are ‘changing tack’ to keep

their farm enterprise profitable.

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Michael & Dianne Anderson live near Karoonda and farm several Mallee properties in the area. They run a mixed farm with cereal cropping as well as Merino ewes and prime lambs.

They are typical hard-working South Aussie farmers, with six properties near Karoonda and 2 properties near Paskeville on the Yorke Peninsula, which keeps them busy.

Michael says, “We have about 3000 ewes. Each year our aim is to achieve over 100% lambing with our ewes and improve our cropping average.”

They grow a wide variety of cereal crops – wheat, barley, triticale, oats, lupins and they had a go at canola this year. “Being the first year... it’s been a little bit of a disappointment, but we’ll try again next year,” Michael muses.

“It hasn’t been a common crop around here but it’s becoming more and more so I think,” he says. “It’s good in your crop rotation ... it’s a good break crop and helps in weed control for other crops that are growing the year after.”

“It gives you the chance to clean up your grasses so you haven’t got grasses coming up in your cereal crops. With canola you can use several herbicides that’ll kill grasses, but with wheat and barley you can’t use those herbicides. So it’s more effective to kill your grasses in a canola crop or another crop rather than the cereal crop. That’s why people use them in their rotation,” he explains.

Michael and Dianne are changing tack on what they’re doing with their crops and sheep and keeping some land for separate uses. In the past they have had pasture for sheep one year and cropping it the next so it’s been an ‘in and out’ rotation. But they are finding that grasses are getting away from them in the crop, so they are thinking they’ll pick out some ground and crop that more often and preserve their poorer, sandier, ground just for pasture and crop it less often. It means they will bring in crops like canola and lupins to the yearly rotation.

Michael then went on to discuss the sheep on his property. When judging returns today, compared with 30 years ago, Michaels says, “I remember getting 400 cents (per kg) for fine wool sheep back in the early 80’s. And only 5 or 6 years ago it was still only 400 cents.”

“It has increased a bit since then. This year we’ve only got 650 cents. So in all that time it hasn’t gone up much. But admittedly, last year it was over 800 cents but it’s slipped back again in the last 12 months. However shearing costs to get the wool off costs quite a bit more now.”

“But we have increased how many kilograms each sheep holds over that time, through improved

genetics. So instead of cutting your 4 to 6 kilos, we’re cutting 7-8 kilograms per sheep,” Michael adds.

Michael laments that the price of lambs has reduced, “Last year we averaged well over $100 for everything we sold and this year we’re probably looking at about $80 average.”

Farming profitably is a big challenge when talking about farm challenges, Michael says, “Rainfall is always the biggest challenge and just keeping things profitable. That’s why we’re changing tack on our cropping rotation and why we still don’t want to get rid of our sheep. But we want to improve what we’re doing cropping wise.”

Michael & Dianne have both been on farms for much of their lives. Michael grew up on the farm at Karoonda, while Dianne was a Schilling from the Kadina-Paskeville area of Yorke Peninsula where she spent much of her childhood.

Michael remembers from his early days ... “15 hours per day on an open-air Fordson tractor, going round and round and we thought it was pretty good if you got 100 acres done a day. But that’s all changed and we do 500-600 a day now.”

“And we don’t work the country as much now. It’s getting down to just one pass now and the farms have had to get bigger just to be sustainable. So instead of making a living off 1000 or 1500 acres you’ve got to have several thousand now to make it.”

Dianne adds, “My father always said years ago, you seemed to be able to make money whatever you did farming. Nowadays it’s just so technical. Years ago you could just be a hard-working farmer to make money. You didn’t need to have ultra-intelligence about what you were doing or having to make sure you made money on every issue. Whereas now it’s just such a thinking thing, lots of planning about what you’re doing.”

“Well I guess it’s the margins. They’re a lot slimmer now,” Michael interjects.

On-farm grain storage is also a farm management issue that the Anderson’s of Karoonda have had to consider and in 2009 they bought a Grant Sheds 2000 tonne Bulk Grain Shed.

As Michael explains, “We had multiple reasons to build this super new shed.

1. We often have some grain which is just a bit off-spec

2. The prices are just too low at harvest time3. We want to keep harvesting because we

don’t want to leave it out in the fields4. Now we’ve got the option of putting it in the

shed and dealing with it later.”

“The issue with the privately owned silos over the past few years made me look more at holding my own grain out here,” Michael says. “Years ago when the growers owned the storage, the co-operative would make segregations for different crops, but now that it’s privately owned, they just won’t accept some varieties or some grades of grain. So it’s made us look at having more grain storage on the farm.”

A Bulk Grain Storage Shed was the solution Michael & Dianne opted for after considering the following benefits:1. Reduce anxiety, stress and frustration at harvest

time.2. Be able to unload grain quickly during harvest.3. Avoid waiting lines and wasted time at silos.4. Keep harvesting without interruptions.5. Avoid rain damage to crops by being able to keep

harvesting.6. Be able to hold our grain until prices improve7. Make more money!

Michael adds an explanation, “A perfect example was last year. We grew triticale. In our sandy Mallee country it’s a good crop to grow but none of the silos nearby took it, so we had to store it ourselves. It ended up in one half of the new grain shed.”

Michael has his own market for it and he’s committed to holding it over for 3-6 months after harvest, but as Dianne says, “We do always gain because of the price increase. We have found that it didn’t take many years and we’d actually gained a lot of money by holding over the grain when its price was low.”

“It doesn’t take long to pay the Grain Shed off.”

“When you get 3 or 4 years in which you’re gaining something like $30-$50 a tonne on what

you’d have got at harvest time it doesn’t take long to pay the shed off,” Dianne continues. “In the first year the shed was up and we put grain in it, we had a heap of feed wheat that was only worth $160-$180 a tonne. We put it in the shed and sold it for $240 in March. So if the shed was full... it would have ...

Paid for itself in one year!”2000 tonnes capacity x $60/t better price = $120,000 additional profit

In just 3 months !

Dianne believes this is going to happen more often now with the grain storage systems and the grain buys, etc. “The private silos are not going to cater for the farmers like they used to. On-farm grain storage is a big thing that a lot of farmers will be looking at too.”

FREE INFO PACK!If you want to build a Bulk Grain Shed for next harvest,

START YOUR PLANNING EARLY. Our builder’s schedules

fill quickly and you don’t want to miss out.

Don’t wait until close to harvest before planning and ordering your new,

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And ask for the Grain Sheds Info Pack

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Dual Purpose Adds Even More Value For Their InvestmentThe Anderson’s 15m x 27m x 3.6m ‘GRANT’ Bulk Grain Shed

protects their farm machinery when its not being used for grain storage.

PAID FOR ITSELFIN ONE YEAR

How This Bulk Grain Shed Almost

Bulk Grain Sheds For MORE BOTTOM-LINE PROFIT

A Grain Shed Can Pay For Itself QuicklyThe Anderson’s stored grain until prices were better after harvest. They gained an extra $60-$80 per tonne for feed wheat in the year they bought the shed.

Useful Resources Help You MAKE DECISIONS

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Many farmers will be familiar with those dry stone walls that stand out in much of the South Australian landscape. But few people will know much about who built these walls, when and why. This prompted Bruce Munday of Mount Torrens to research the subject and write his wonderful book ‘Those Dry-stone Walls’.

“These walls, built without mortar, are an important part of history but little was known or written about them,” Bruce said.

“Up until the 1850’s livestock on the large pastoral leases were kept in place by shepherds, but with the gold rush the shepherds left for Victoria seeking their fortune.

This made fencing important, and in a state where timber was scarce, bushfires frequent, and stone often abundant, stone fences made sense.”

The book is not only about the walls, but also the people and circumstances at the time that they were built.

Skilled craftsmen, referred to as wallers, were responsible for making the stone fences. While it was tough and often lonely work, it was respected, a good waller earning about as much as a shearer.

A good waller (actually, usually a team of four including a couple of young boys) was paid about a pound a chain plus rations and could build perhaps a chain per day if stone was immediately at hand.

Just as economics drove the adoption of fencing across rural South Australia, so did new technology drive its evolution to the now almost universal post-and-wire style of fence. It was the development of the Bessemer process in 1856 that enabled steel to be made from iron and from which wire could be drawn in longer and thinner lengths.

Today a man can erect a kilometre of stock-proof fence in a few days, something that would take a waller perhaps four months.”

For more information on the book or to purchase, visit www.storiesbehindstonewalls.com.au/

Ali bought the book and read it cover to cover within a week. “I found it very easy to read and I liked Bruce’s sense of humour which shines through in the book,” Ali said. With a laugh, she also added... “I know I’m getting older because history things now fascinate me where as they didn’t when I was younger. This book is a really good read and I highly recommend it.”

The History of SA’s Dry-Stone Walls

Danny & our grandson Riley at a decaying stone building on Bendleby Station , via Orroroo, in 2010 . Do you have any photos of stone walls or buildings? We’d love to see them.

Check out this “Video Tour” of an “Aussie Tough” Machinery Shed. Brenton, our Farm Assets Protection Advisor, explains some of the quality features that make Grant Sheds much better value for money and why these features are so important when you build your new farm shed. Head to our new web site.www.GrantSheds.com.au

Click on the “Why Grant Sheds?” tab and then Click on the “Shed Tours” option.

To Learn What Makes Grant Sheds Better Value For You

Take A Shed ‘Video Tour’Smart Phone Apps For FarmersThanks to Mark McInerney of Riverton

SA who suggested we include

information about Smartphone Apps

for farmers in our newsletter. What a

great idea!

So I did some research and found

an excellent publication produced

by ‘Ag Excellence Alliance Inc’ that

lists hundreds of apps for iPhones or

Androids that may be useful to farmers.

We may feature some apps in future editions, but for now, here is

the file path to the publication so you can download it. It’s FREE!

http://agex.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Apps-Book.pdf

Ag Excellence Alliance works with SA broad-acre grain and

livestock farmers to improve their profitability and sustainability

but some of the apps in the publication will be useful to all

farmers. Web site: www.agex.org.au

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Hear This Shed Buying Experience...

The Anderson’s of Karoonda discuss the different levels of shed quality and experiences they’ve encountered when buying different shed brands.

Michael says that they don’t have time to build their own these days, but he has many regrets about the first shed he bought from a commercial shed maker.

“In about 2004, we bought a shed from ---- ---- Sheds [name withheld], and we bought it purely on price that time and we just thought ‘A shed is a shed’...” But Michael’s problems started there.

“The guys that were contracted to put it up were supposed to do it in February-March but they didn’t rock up until May when we were trying to get our crop in. And because I had a crane here, they wanted me to jump off the tractor and lift things up which was annoying during seeding. It was a bad experience...”

Dianne also mentioned that the shed builders stayed with them but offered nothing in return for their board and meals*, and they had Dianne running around to Karoonda and into Murray Bridge, 80km away, to buy items for the shed which hadn’t been supplied.

Michael says, “The shed’s still standing, but you can see the difference in quality from the other sheds.”

Their experience when they bought their new Bulk Grain Shed from Grant Sheds, was in stark contrast ... a much more positive experience. Michael explains enthusiastically,

“Everything went smoothly and the job was done right. We got a price that we were happy with and we decided to get it put up by Grant’s.

Steve (the builder) and his crew came, and I reckon they would have had it up in a week, if it wasn’t for a couple of windy days. This is in comparison with 6 weeks with this other mob that we had.”

Since then, the Anderson’s have bought another smaller Grant Sheds car shed with roller doors and a lean-to which they’ve put next to their house to protect their personal vehicles, farm ute, etc. “And that’s worked out well too,” Michael says delightedly.

Don’t Feel ‘Ripped Off.’ Instead... UNDERSTAND THE VALUE

Of a Well-Made Shed

Inferior Shed BrandJust a single footing bolt holds this column to the concrete footing.

The baseplate is a small angle plate. The horizontal section is bolted to the footing & the vertical section bolted to the column.

Grant Sheds solid bracing fits into pre-punched frame holes which makes your shed square and rigid before you clad it. This makes building your shed even easier because the whole frame is sturdy and stable while you are building. Others rely on the cladding to stiffen the shed up.

Inferior Shed BrandLight, flimsy strap bracing, only 1mm thick, that works only in tension and, even then, only if fitted correctly.

AUSSIE TOUGH GRANT SHEDSSolid, RHS Steel bracing works both in tension and compression for ultimate rigidity in high wind conditions.

Another Shed Brandexample of an inferior footings bolts system. Here two small 16mm bolts connect to a thin ‘U’ shaped plate that is then bolted to the vertical sides of the columns. It wouldn’t take much to sheer any of these bolts when stress is added.

GRANT SHEDSCompare those to the FOUR heavy duty 24mm footings bolts and 12mm thick baseplate of a Grant ‘Aussie Tough’ Machinery Shed here. Double nuts (1 below & 1 above the heavy duty baseplate) also makes it easy to get your base levels right.

The size of the concrete footings & baseplates plus the size and number of footings bolts determines the foundational strength of any shed. Any weakness here will be discovered when your shed is tested by the occasional freak wind storm that passes through your farm.

Solid Wind-Bracing Makes Your Shed Sturdier And Easier To Build...

Here’s How To Make Sure Your Shed Won’t Blow Away...

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We’ll feature more

farm shed strength

& design features

you should be looking for in

future editions

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GRANT SHEDS People On The Land...A Little Bit Of History

Harvey NormanI have a new nick name for my wife. I call her “Harvey Norman”.Why Harvey Norman?36 months...No interest!

As Grant Sheds completed our 60th year in business in 2012, we thought we’d show some historical photos of People On The Land here. Here are some old photos relating to wine grape harvesting. Appropriate for this time of year when wine grape growers are in the middle of theirs.

MONTHLY HUMOUR

B 1948 - Jim Whitfield of Monash delivering wine grapes to the Berri Co-operative Winery.

Check out the scavenge boards. Would today’s contractors get away with this or would it be considered an unsafe load?

1932 - Hand-picking graps at Frick’s Monash property.

2012 - Machine harvesting wine grapes

“Quote”“Obstacles cannot bend me.

Every obstacle yields to effort”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

Italian painter, sculptor, and inventor

B 1920’s Carting grapes to Berri Co-operative Winery

Note the different modes of transport lined up together. Obviously changing times.

And would today’s grape growers travel to the winery with a load this small, yet spilling over the sides?

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