Enjoy this tour along a collection of old and not so old machinery and equipment, homemade conversions and projects included. Plus some bonus images for CC-folks with green fingers.
A 1976 Volvo F407 flatbed truck with the Club of Four tilt cab.
A more recent piece of equipment, this one-tons 2019 Anssems single-axle trailer.
Look, it clearly goes beyond the usual flatbed utility trailer with dropsides.
It came from the factory with a manually operated dump system. But now the trailer has an electric/hydraulic system, built by the owner. When necessary, the battery can be charged with the bed down.
Neuson (nowadays part of Wacker Neuson SE) tracked mini-excavator.
A homemade, trailered generator set. Powered by a Mercedes-Benz marine diesel engine.
The workshop, where things are getting done.
Over to the greenhouse, further down the yard.
This Shibaura used to be a mower and was converted into a forklift much later on. Another DIY-job. In the background you can already see what the owner/operator’s profession is.
There are more potted plants -big ones- alongside the driveway. In part two we step inside a private museum, mainly filled with classic horticultural equipment.
Nice tour. My kind of guy.
Thanx ! .
I like private collections , always different things than museums .
-Nate
Thanks, looking forward to part II
Interesting to see the mini excavator has what looks like a home built thumb. I am still amazed at how few of these I see considering how useful we find it in logging, road building and silviculture work. I just shake my head when I go by a construction site and see them struggling with rocks and other items with no thumb to grasp them. This owner got creative, good to see.
Yes, IIRC, the thumb is home built. It’s used to grasp (young) trees out of the soil, clamping the clod/tree’s root system. Carefully, of course.
My kind of place. Shibaura is a Japanese tractor and equipment maker and supplies small tractors to Ford in the US.
The small Japanese tractors are popular among fruit growers and horticulturists here. Below the HQ of our Shibaura importer, just a short drive from my place.
Regarding the trees in the picture below. I believe they are grown/ trained inside the bamboo forms so as to be flat. Is that done so they can be planted close to a home or building? Does that process have a name? I just about pinched myself after seeing this setup. To be able to make sculpture during the wintertime in machine shop attached to a greenhouse. One could soak up much needed sun and breath in that fresh air from the trees.
Espalier trees are trained to be flat, but not so high up on the trunk. Not exactly sure about these, but presumably your guess is right. Or maybe some other reason?
Such trees (“leibomen”, in Dutch) are mostly planted in front of houses/buildings or alongside lanes. These are not meant to produce fruit or timber.
The young trees grow in a pot (container) or straight in the soil. Inside or outside a greenhouse. They are exported all over Europe (and possibly beyond).
Example 1:
Example 2:
About 10 years ago I had the good fortune to spend quite a bit of time in Amersfoort on business. There were many such trees in the residential area but where I best remember them was along a canal in the old city, inside the city wall. The canal ran south from the Koppelpoort, which is the north gate in the city wall. In the photo the trees look much bushier than they actually are. There is a very nice brewpub there (De Drie Ringen) where you sit in front on a warm summer evening and enjoy the view of the canal and its trees.
Nice. Creating a green wall on top of a row of trunks, that’s the idea.