To keep the company’s head above water, Cyril worked for Treske furniture in Thirsk and Robert Thompson Craftsman Ltd, installing dust extraction systems. When agriculture finally started to find it’s feet, he picked up from where he left off, this time servicing Keenan and Hi Spec feeders and supplying new products from feed all.

“We offer a comprehensive service, specialising in the refurbishment of these feeders and the supply of replacement parts such as chains and bearings,” Cyril tells me adding that Bainbridge provides the equivalent of a courtesy car, a replacement feeder, when a customer’s piece of kit is out of action.

A relatively new name, the Feed All recognises that recent advances in mechanical technology, combined with rapidly evolving changes in farming practise, advocate the use of vertical auger mixers, which are cost-effective, and which have a lower cost of ownership and longer life than conventional mixers. In addition, it is happy accommodating silage with high dry matter, straw and other modern feed materials. “In my opinion, “Cyril says, “it out-classes all conventional auger mixers in terms of versatility, ease of use, cost of ownership and value for money, and it chops bales and not many feeders will”

Other features include a technologically superior gearbox eliminating chains and sprockets reducing wear and tear, maintenance, service and downtime, enhanced safety features, high visibility for reversing, and a unique tempered bottom sweeper – and Cyril is a particular fan of the auger: “it starts with a narrow taper, incorporates a higher pitch and has a larger mixing circle than any other feeder in it’s class”

Boasting a good stock of up-to-date machinery (two lathes, radial arm drilling machines, a profile cutter, plasma cutter, and a computerised CNC, profiler), Bainbridge Engineering is the only Feed all dealership in the UK, a fitting reward for it’s long time dedication to service and quality.

We do other products too though, Cyril says, bringing me up to speed on other activities. “Along with Twose farm machines we supply Albutt rehandling equipment, Bosch products and ECE muck-spreaders, and we manufacture our own Blade Master bucket blades from boron steel for JCB’s and Manitours.”