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WRITE to the editor: Scott Lambert,

The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL

EMAIL: tm.ed@kelsey.co.uk

SILAGE THE INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER WAY

Dear T&M,

Thanks for the amazing IH silagemaking piece, with those great pictures taken back in the day by William Slater. It took me back in time and the memories came flooding back!

We had an almost identical pairing back then, but ours was a B20-1 inline forager. The B-414 and B20-1 were state-of-the-art at the time and I am a massive B-414 fan to this day.

Until then we had picked up our grass with a petrol-engined

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