From chasing rabbits to leading UK Farming & Agricultural Contractor
At Shufflebottom we never cease to be amazed by the businesses we deliver our steel-framed buildings to, and their extraordinary stories of success. One such business is HG Heath & Sons of Shipston on Stour in lovely Warwickshire for whom we have recently delivered an agricultural building of huge scope and scale.
Today, the HG Heath Group of companies is recognised as one of the UK’s leading farming and agricultural contractors, their name ‘synonymous with machines that are built to do the job, and will last’ and ‘Great British Engineering’. Machines include: beavertail trailers and flatbed trailers, bale chasers, bale grabs, and bale spikes, crop rollers, and grain buckets and grain dozes, mole ploughs and nudge bars – this wonderful list that is poetry to our ears, goes on and on.
As does the HG Heath business. Now in its third generation, this family-run enterprise was founded and run by Harold George Heath (1923-2020) who worked tirelessly to build the business it is today, often catching rabbits to earn extra money to get things off the ground. He’d surely be proud to see his legacy and the on-going development at Newbridges Farm.
It is there Shufflebottom’s agricultural steel-framed building is now in place. The grain store is 54.864m long x 22m wide x 9m to eaves. It has a 12.5 degree pitch and incorporates 9 x 6.096m bays. The steelwork is shotblast to B.S. SA 2.5. painted in 75 microns Zinc Phosphate High Build Primer – Colour 14C39 (Green). The roof is clad in Natural Grey P6R Fibre Cement with Closed Ridge and Fibre Cement Eaves’ Closure. The sides are clad with Vertical Juniper Green 0.5mm Plastic Coated Box Profile with MetSEC side rails and incorporating 4 x gable columns.
In addition to the building, Shufflebottom supplied 280mm thick single load-bearing concrete panels x 6m high all around the building, allowing for 6 x openings. Shufflebottom also supplied 280mm thick double load-bearing panels x 6m high to x 2 22m-wide dividing walls.
This was a commission of huge value to Shufflebottom – both in the wider sense of the word and in the financial sense. For that we would like to say a huge thank you to HG Heath & Sons for investing in the Shufflebottom brand and wish them continued success.
If you’ve enjoyed this story, you can read more about the inspiring tale of this company’s growth at www.heathengineering.co.uk