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Pearce's Offsider
Company History
A. W. Pearce Machinery first built the Pearce's Offsider in the early 1980's. He incorporated the business in 1983. Spending time on his farm as a child, and being able to tour his oversized farm shed-come-manufacturing plant, to watch the amazing gear be made, I never thought I'd have the ingenuity to make something capable of performing such feats on my own.
Pearce's Offsider
Company Rebirth
Nathan Pearce decided to register the business name Pearce's Offsider in the
late 2010's. He recognised the value that the family name has in solving issues others aren't capable of solving. Since this rebirth, Pearce's Offsider USA has sponsored two FIRST Robotics Competition teams, and continues to do so with volunteering hours, and computing equipment when it can. Our current sponsorship recipient is Buzz Robotics, Team 175, out of Enfield, Connecticut. https://www.buzzrobotics.org
The equipment my grandfather manufactured was so different to everything else before it, being Australian made, it even made it's way out of the Australasia region within the first decade of production!
Featured in Farm Show Magazine in the 1985, volume 9, issue 6, they are quoted as saying...
"It loads itself, taking 2 bales at time, and handles all shapes and sizes of round bales - even round bale silage - as long as the bale is still intact. It's available for use with most tractors 40 hp or larger. Options include an engine-driven hydraulic pack for use behind pickup trucks, or a pto-driven power pack for use behind smaller tractors."
Of course, these machines were built to withstand the rigors of farm life and everything that came with it. Being left out side or hooked up to a tractor overnight while the farmer slept, through to trudging through fields towing two 1,200lb (500kg+) round hay bales to the hungry livestock beyond the reach of other farm equipment, and then being able to unload them and unroll them at the destination, no secondary machinery required. The two truly amazing facts is that you can still find examples for sale today on agricultural and farm equipment close-out sale websites, still fetching almost that original asking price (albeit in today's dollars) for a nearly 40 year old machine, and that the manufacturer himself didn't outlast his machinery, until his last weeks he was still making machinery in his shed and touring Australia in self-redesigned motor homes.
From that same article in 1985: "As far as we know, it's the only big bale unroller on the market that feeds off either side with equal efficiency - regardless of which way the bales are loaded onto it," says A.W. Pearce of his company's new hydraulically-powered Offsider.
Even now, in 2021, our family is being contacted for support and spare parts for this machine that is so extraordinary at what it accomplishes. I'm proud of my family heritage and upbringing, and realise the same ingenuity and problem solving skills
have been passed on, and I can solve
today's problems with the same skill and attention to detail and quality
result that my forebears could.
We hope you appreciate this trip
down memory lane as much as we look forward to creating a new history
for the brand in Technology and Engineering.
In Memoriam: Arthur Walter Pearce
1928-2021
Loved father of Greg, Cheryl (dec), Elizabeth and Trevor.
Loved father in-law, Grandfather of 16 and Great-Grandfather of 17.
Arthur's Machinery was shown on three continents. But Arthur never forgot who he was, or why he was making the equipment with exacting specificity, and care and attention to detail. To his end days, he was still thinking up improvements to the design of his machines. He will be missed. - Nathan Pearce.