Elveden

Caretaker Potato Grading Line

Potato and Onion Grading Line

Tong Engineering is proud to supply custom built handling equipment to Elveden Farms. Working from the Elveden Estate in Thetford, on the Norfolk/Suffolk Border, the farm extends to over 10,000 acres, making it one of the largest single farm units in Britain. It provides crop such as potatoescarrots, barley and parsnips and is the largest producer of rye in the UK.

One of Tong’s latest projects for Elveden Farms was a complete vegetable intake, cleaning, grading and loading system, which is largely used on the company’s potato and onion crops. The potato and onion grading line comprises of a heavy duty Tong infeed hopper with trailer reversing sensors, Tong’s market leading EasyClean separator, EasyGrade potato and vegetable grading screens and Tong Midi EasyFill potato and vegetable box fillers.

At the end of the system the Tong EasyLoad extending elevator gentle fills bulker lorries with ease, with an easy-to-use remote control.

This high capacity potato grading line has been designed to meet customer specification as a multi-use grading facility, which is capable of effectively cleaning and grading both potatoes and onions over the same configuration.

Another high quality handling solution from Tong.