McConnel

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For the American tractor brand, see McConnell Tractors.

McConnel are a British manufacture of Agricultural Machinery. The firm is based in Ludlow in Shropshire.

[edit] History

An early manual adjusted McConnel hedge cutter mounted on a Fordson tractor at GDSF in 2008

A McConnel hedge cutter unit on the Stand at LAMMA show in 2009

A restored 1963 McConnel Model S Power Arm at Newark Tractor show 2009

McConnel built one of the first hedge cutters back in 1948. This early machin was adjustable by hand and driven by an engine mounted on a boom to counter ballance the cutter head of circular saws, or a finger bar type (no flail heads).

The Company is now part of the Alamo Group of Texas in the USA.

[edit] Time line

[edit] Product range

• Hedge cutters a Verge mowers
• Mowers
  • Flail mowers
  • Rotary mowers
• Toppers
• Sub-soilers
• Cultivator
• Post-hole borer
• McConnel Power Arm tractor mounted Backhoe attachment & grab loader attachment.
• Front Loader attachment for tractors upto 170 hp, with 3 ton capacity and 4m+ lift.

[edit] See also

• Bomford
• Twose
• List of Types of Agricultural Machinery
• Shows and Meets

[edit] References / sources

[edit] External links

• Official web site

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