Mike Berry
@mike-berry Active 4 days, 9 hours ago
Howard took on a contract to build 50 mini gappers but only a few were built as they did not catch on with beet growers and then in the 60s beet seeds were individualy pelletted that meant the seed could with the new drills be planted 6-8 inches apart and there was no need for men to go gapping with hoes or any machine that was used to gap the […] View
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will-haggle replied to the topic 1966.howard mini gapper and drill in the forum Ride-on machines 1 year, 6 months ago
I took the attached picture in 2014 at Newark of a Howard Mini-Gapper, Owned at the time by Mr. Mervyn Gathercole of Kings Lyn, Norfolk.
