Driving impression: With a kerb weight of about 3t and still scaling less than 5t fully laden, the Frazier Phantom is one sprayer that genuinely justifies its ‘low ground pressure’ label. Andrew Faulkner travels to Shropshire to drive the latest addition to the Frazier fleet
To millions of Friday night television viewers, ‘Frazier’ refers to a zany Seattle shrink and the various goings-on of his extended, off-the-wall family. Yet in the world of farm machinery, the Frazier tag is synonymous with something rather more conventional – the Agribuggy self-propelled sprayer.
First launched in 1981, this diminutive demount, built by Frazier in Yorkshire, has come a long way since those early days. Back then it was based around a BMC Morris 1300 car engine/gearbox and Land Rover axles, had no cab and was saddled up with a Vicon Varispreader and Honda donkey engine; it wasn’t even a sprayer at that stage. Today, even though lowground- pressure principles remain at the centre of the skid unit’s design, the Agribuggy looks and is a very different beast – as can be seen in the pictures (below and opposite) of the recently introduced Phantom.
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