I finally came across the Bobcat stand, which was demonstrating their model 543. The brand was not at all well known in Brittany. I didn't know it myself.
Daniel Jaffré
Posted: 16 December 2024
Daniel Jaffré from Gourin, Morbihan, France, was the first French Bobcat customer to buy a machine for a neighboring agricultureal activity when he bought his first Bobcat loader in 1986 to clean his wife's hen houses. He quickly made it his main activity and democratized the tool in agriculture.
In 1983, Sylvie Jaffré took over the family turkey farm in Gourin. Two years later, the farm expanded with the purchase of a 2,600 m2 building. Sylvie's husband Daniel was hired as an employee. “This building dates from 1967,” he says. “It's not very high, and it has three rows of posts, which doesn't make cleaning any easier.”
In 1986, Daniel Jaffré went to the Trégourez agricultural fair with the intention of buying a small cab-less tractor capable of working in the building.
I finally came across the Bobcat stand, which was demonstrating their model 543. The brand was not at all well known in Brittany. I didn't know it myself.
Daniel Jaffré