Driving impression: Kellands Agribuggy 1000 SP sprayer Buggy goes back to basics Few would argue that Tony Frazier’s original Agribuggy 2/3/4/5D machines popularised LGP self-propelled spraying in the 1980s. Now under new ownership but with the same man at the drawing board the Kelland’s Agribuggy 1000 goes back to its roots. Martin Rickatson reports
Self-propelled sprayer models tend to fall into one of two camps – ‘highs’ and ‘lows’: There are those high capacity, high clearance giants, or the low ground pressure, lower priced lightweights. But one isn’t necessarily a better way of going SP spraying than the other – both types have found favour across UK arable farms over the past 25 years.
That’s a fact borne out by Kellands’ decision to reintroduce a smaller version of its Agribuggy. Having developed the original ‘D’ models, along with Phantom and Stealth successors, into the considerably larger and higher output Agribuggy 2000 machine, launched four years ago, the firm, which took over Tony Frazier’s Agribuggy sprayer line in 2000, has now taken the SP ‘buggy right back to its roots.
According to the company MD Chris Kelland, he was still being asked by existing and potential Agribuggy users for a smaller 1,000-1,500 litre lightweight machine. Upshot of this was that the firm set out to revise the original Agribuggy concept and produce a machine to complement the 2000.
