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GJ Filter & Sons upgrades its fleet with Series 5 Haulage Tractors
In any mechanised business, good forward planning regarding when to replace the very equipment that forms the backbone of the operation is vital.
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Loyal timber customer Kanyi Ilanga Trading celebrates 21st anniversary
When seeing Elvis Shabangu gaze out over his big timber treatment yard nestled in between vast timber plantations it’s difficult to imagine that this was once a young boy who left school prematurely to help his single-parent mother take care of his siblings by doing odd jobs.
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Second Bell-JCB Agricultural Conference fosters a unified dealer network
Bell Equipment Forestry & Agriculture and JCB Agriculture hosted the second annual dealer conference in Richards Bay at the end of March, presenting the dealer delegates an opportunity to visit the Bell factory and gain a better understanding of the Bell-JCB partnership, product range, and culture.
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Bell Graders: Impressing operators with precision performance
Production of the highly anticipated Bell Motor Grader range is planned to start in Q3 2025 for Stage 3 developing markets. Designed to meet the evolving needs of the industry, the new machines promise to deliver high productivity and precision accurate control with superior operator station ergonomics and visibility.
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Bell provides ideal forestry solutions for Dendatron
When considering the volumes that a contract timber harvester working in pine thinnings in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg area must produce, he is adamant that two Bell Skoggers would be more productive and cost effective than two larger and more powerful skidders.
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Bell Skogger is game changer for Harding timber contractor
When Wes Redinger started doing contract timber harvesting for one of the largest timber growers in South Africa, he did it with manual labour. His young company, called Whisky Valley, had three chainsaw operators who did the felling while manual extraction and loading the three-metre timber lengths onto tractor-trailer combinations by hand was the order of the day. It was, however, not sustainable.
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Enterprising Eswatini women create opportunity with a Bell Slew Loader
Inhabitants of the Sigangeni community in the northwest of Eswatini traditionally grow their maize between October and May of the following year when it is harvested. The area lies adjacent the Mpumalanga Highveld of South Africa and has winters that are too cold for cash crops like cabbages that could bring in essential additional income, so a group of enterprising ladies devised an ambitious plan.
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Major maize operation chooses Bell Tractors
In layman’s terms, two additional cylinders added to a four-cylinder diesel engine should provide more horsepower, but would you believe that those same two additional cylinders can also reduce fuel consumption?
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