730 firms · every entry dated on a Monday morning
Contractors, agronomists, machinery dealers, large-animal vets, merchants and grain driers, each carrying the week it could actually start. In the middle of harvest or a fortnight into lambing there is only one useful question, so it sits at the top of every entry instead of the bottom.
As given to us on Monday
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How availability is kept
Every entry carries the morning the firm gave us that answer. By the Thursday of a harvest week it can already be wrong, and saying so plainly makes this look worse than a register whose entries never change. Fourteen firms have asked to be shown as free permanently. All fourteen were told no.
We do not drop the busy ones to the bottom or hide them until they free up. It loses those firms enquiries in their best six weeks of the year, and three contractors have come off the register over exactly that, one of them after eleven years on it.
The telephone number is on the entry, not behind a form, and we never learn whether you rang. A machinery group offered £45 an introduction across the whole register last spring, which on our own traffic would have been the best part of £60,000, and we would then have had every reason to keep quiet about who was actually free.
Two of us do nothing but ring round for capacity from the middle of July to the end of September, so nothing new gets checked and added in that window. Around forty firms sit waiting each year, and a few of them go elsewhere rather than wait for the autumn.
“Sixty acres of oats still standing, rain due Thursday, and the contractor put a rod through his combine on the Tuesday morning. Every number already in my phone was cutting for somebody else. This told me which four machines inside forty miles were sitting idle that week, and the second one I tried was through the gate by half four.”
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Beverley, East Yorkshire HU17 8BZ
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