Ooo Aaarr Combine Harvester Graveyard, Alnwick, Nov 2012

Combine harvesters? A 500 mile round trip? Count me in!!

This is the biggest collection of combine harvesters in Europe. Not a graveyard as such, but a business. Manners Farm takes in 60 vehicles a year and tries it's hardest to sell parts from the equivalent amount of combines.

They import combines from many places, including Germany and Eastern Europe.

We saw combines acquired as recently as the end of October, so it's not a dying business!

Thanks go out to the owners of the farm, it is quite pleasant to phone someone up, ask if we can take photos and be welcomed on with open arms.

A word of warning though, if your going without permission, there is a loose Rottweiler and he looked like he had just gobbled up a previous trespasser, he was HUGE!!

Oh and it's best not going cross country either as in the shadow of the stately home, they were volleying off the shots and killing a fook load of pheasants!!


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great to see this again, its been years since i was last here, and as you say the owners are more then happy for people to take pics and ill second that about the size of that dog they have there! its bigger then me lol

a great set there mate, i really like the shot showing them going into the distance, did you go to whittingham station while there? its only up the road and had some good features still left.

nah, we had to get back before the weather closed in, I think we managed the only dry part of Saturday lol.

Shame about that New Holland TF78 sat there, they were a cracking combine back 'int day. ;)

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Originally Posted by ROYALBOB

Shame about that New Holland TF78 sat there, they were a cracking combine back 'int day. ;)

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Number 24 was new in, It was taxed for 2013!!

Sweet!
Some impressive machinery there :thumb

nice shots worked on a couple of the claas models in the past:thumb noticed a few "rusty" ones too fire is a killer of combines:help

That's a nice set :thumb

I went here a few years back, it's a great place :) Was there just the one Rottie? There were two when I visited....

Yeah, we only saw one, maybe the other was inside the house?

Very nicemate good to see something differant :thumb

that's pretty cool, always wondered where it was - never knew it was at alnwick

I can't get excited over combined harvesters but it's deffo the best collection i've ever seen!