Nice to see dry land..
Contractor Dave Marshall was having problems harvesting land-locked fields on Edward Muntz's Umberslade Estate, nr Hockley Heath near Solihull because the fields were so saturated. The combine was moving - because it is on tracks - but the difficulty was getting the grain out of the field. He solved it by hiring in a Bell B30D dump truck which has a capacity of about 30t but very low ground pressure. The machine is pictured here working on 14 September.
Andy Jenkins, from the firm who hired the truck, said: "The machine, even when loaded with a higher capacity load than I was told their conventional tractor and grain trailer could move, barely left a mark on the soft ground in their fields. It certainly didn't cause ruts or get bogged down (or risk overturning) as a standard tractor/trailer outfit would have done."