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RE: survey on members pressing machinery
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<pre>John,
We (Tanja Olives) have around 2000 olive trees in the ground and they range
between 1 and 4 years old. At the end of the last season we purchased a
second hand Oliomio 100 (100kgs per hour) centrifugal processor from a
producer in Griffith NSW. Like Peter Caird in Victoria he had outgrown his
machine and upgraded to an Oliomio 250 as a replacement. He doesn't actually
grow olives himself but services the local olive growers.
Other olive growers in the Bega Valley have trees ranging between 1 and 3
years old and our aim is to process their fruit with any spare capacity that
we might have with our 100. You might be interested in doing the same rather
than grapple with forming a coop! You may also find that relatively low
mileage oil processors will be available on the second hand market. We would
expect that our 100 will need to be upgraded within the next 4 to 5 years
and still only have a relatively low number of hours on the machine.
Regards,
Phil
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