Bridgeway Engineering specialises in the manufacture of farm machinery and livestock equipment. The Bridgeway Engineering range includes aerators, grass conditioners, mole ploughs, tipping trailers, roto-bale spikes, bale carriers and small-capacity muck spreaders.

Bridgeway Engineering has been manufacturing agricultural machinery since the early 90s. Initially, the firm produced bale-handling equipment and grass toppers. Since then, it has expanded into developing and producing a much wider range of machinery.

Bridgeway Engineering designs machines in consultation with local farmers. It uses a flexible manufacturing process to produce specialised machines to suit individual farmers’ needs.

In recent years, Bridgeway has recognised the need for improved solutions to grassland compaction problems and maximising yields from pasture and silage ground. Aeration is recognised and proven as a solution to compaction.

Bridgeway will be showing their latest aeration machines at FTMTA Grass & Muck 2014, with working widths from 1.5m to 6.2m. The company advises using its aerator in autumn, after grazing. Their experience has been that increasing the tine barrel angle to 10° during autumn aeration yields improved results. If repeating aeration in same field, always travel at right angles to previous track.

Bridgeway recommends repeating the aeration process in spring, as soon as land conditions permit. The machine can be fitted with an optional scarifier and seed broadcaster to revitalise the crop and encourage new growth.

The Offaly-based company claims that aeration prior to fertilizer spreading can reduce your requirements by up to 50%. Aeration prior to spreading slurry also enables you to spread more without risk of runoff, as the slurry will enter aerated ground faster and reduce volatilisation (nitrogen loss to air as ammonia).

Bridgeway will also be showcasing its new updated 2014 drawbar-mounted grass conditioner tedder, which is available in working widths of 2.2m and 2.5m. This year’s model features a galvanised drawbar and an easy grass-flow system, which is gentler when used to condition wet or damp swaths of straw. Also standard are LED lights, a warning beacon, automatic chain oiler, adjustable swath doors and a wide-angle PTO shaft.

The Bridgeway system ensures quick drying in the right conditions, less labour and less effluent from the silage in bales or in the pit.

The 2.2m and 2.5m-wide grass conditioner tedders are ideal for picking up two swaths from smaller mowers and putting into one swath, conditioned for baling or forage harvesting. The swath doors on the Bridgeway tedder are well-shaped and can be adjusted for width – encouraging higher throughput for balers.

All come with a two-year warranty, including its three-point linkage machine, which also has some new features. Also on display will be a single-leg mole plough sub-soiler.

Bridgeway Engineering Ltd.,

Shannonbridge, Co Offaly.

Tel: 09096-74996

Fax: 09096-74270

Email: bridgeway@eircom.net

Web: www.bridgewayengineering.com