The great thing about Trimble’s durable and lightweight rugged GPS handheld, the Nomad, is its versatility. Last week saw it making a guest appearance on BBC1′s Countryfile programme linked up to a fertiliser spreader. Countryfile regular, Adam Henson, was testing out the latest technology on his Cotswold farm to see if he could cut his bills by moving away from a random ‘scatter gun’ approach to fertiliser spreading to something more measured. Precision farming experts were called in and information from an aerial survey showed where Adam was over fertilising on certain areas of his land. By using the Nomad’s map… Read More

Trimble’s machine control systems have played a huge role in achieveing near a perfect sub-base for blacktop as part of Birse Civils‘ contract to improve 3.5km of the A14 Haughley New Street to Stowmarket dual carriageway. Birse Civils worked with Lancaster Earthmoving on the scheme, and readily adopted the latest Trimble machine control technology from KOREC including the GCS900 Grade Control system for dozers and Trimble’s GCS900 system for graders utilising a Trimble Universal Total Station (UTS). Whle the Highways Agency normally requires a sub-base tolerance of +10/-30mm, Birse managed to cut this to just +5/-5mm by carrying out the… Read More