Gyral Implements

The modest business frontage of Toowoomba based Gyral Implements Pty Ltd disguises one of Australias prominent engineering success stories. From humble beginnings in the mid 50s it is now in the enviable position of being universally recognised as the developer of the modern day air seeder pioneering innovation that has taken it to a position of in... ternational recognition. North American cropping farmers, for example, probably have no idea that equipment purchased from the Great Plains Manufacturing Co of Kansas was patented from the drawing boards located at Gyrals Queensland Head Office or that Australian farmers from Western Australia to Queensland who have purchased Gason, Horwood Bagshaw, Shearer, Napier Grasslands or Simplicity are using equipment that is or has used Gyrals Air Seeding concepts. Just how a family owned and managed company made the quantum leap from a relatively small Darling Downs equipment manufacturer to one which still sees royalties for its air seeder patents being honoured from all around the world make fascinating reading. The catalyst that nurtured and grew the company from its humble beginnings was undoubtedly Albert Fuss a visionary farmer/engineer who spent most of his working life in South Australia. After a lifetime spent in the harsh environment of the Eyre Peninsula he eventually chose to retire in Dalby, Queensland where the family had a farming property. But at age 68 retirement did not suit him well and he soon was developing a revolutionary seeding concept. "This was mainly in response to the extraordinary wet and difficult year experienced by the farming community in 1956" commented Roy Fuss, youngest of Albert Fusss four sons and daughter. "Farmers everywhere were having difficulty planting with combine drills that simply could not cope with the tight, compacted soil and the large amounts of surface trash", he said. "My father came up with a lightweight air seeder which could be mounted on to a chisel plough, plus it had the added bonus of handling all types of ...Read More