During the 1950’s ARM focused its resources on the design, development, manufacture and sales of a machine for cutting and loading grass into tractors, “The cutter loader”. Grass drying being the most efficient means of preserving the nutrients in grass during processing was very popular at that time, indeed ARM ran a grass drying operation until fuel prices escalated cost and it became uneconomic.
ARM were initially doing well selling over 75 cutter loaders until unfortunately a farmer in New Zealand developed a much simpler and cheaper machine, the flail harvester and this killed the cutter loader stone dead.