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February 21, 2006
PRACTICAL TEST: Looking around Europe, certain manufacturers sell strongly in small pockets without ever achieving blanket coverage. Sprayer maker Berthoud falls into this particular distribution camp, but through no fault of its product line –…
December 16, 2004
Driving impression: Hardi Alpha Plus sprayer ... or do you have an unhindered view from the ‘bridge' of your SP sprayer? Farmers this side of the Channel have never warmed to Europeanstyle front-engined machines preferring…
July 8, 2004
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…
June 8, 2004
USED MACHINERY: Knight Farm Machinery trailed sprayers: When Brian Knight built his first 2,000-litre, 12m boom trailed sprayer back in 1984, he fitted it with a mechanical tracking drawbar. Twenty years on, there has been…
December 21, 2003
PRACTICAL TEST Danish firm Hardi is one of relatively few global players in the specialist crop sprayer market. Last summer we tested a Commander Plus 2800 trailed unit on the Continent over several weeks –…
October 17, 2002
USED MACHINERY: First introduced back in 1982, the Agribuggyhas developed considerably over the past 20years. As a used buy, even the earliest examplescan still make a sound purchase, with partsavailability making it feasible to ‘refurbish'…
July 5, 2002
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Despite acquiring the rights to Cleanacres' bigself-propelled sprayer technology and buying inHouseham skid units for its previous machines,Knight Farm Machinery has now designed its firstcompletely in-house self-propelled model, the 1530.Martin Rickatson tours a…
June 14, 2002
Lincs sprayer specialist Chafer is going all out forthe upper end of the arable farm and contractormarket with its new self-propelled range-topper,the Rogator. Martin Rickatson climbs aboard tofind out if its fusion of UK, US…
May 21, 1999
In the two years since its launch, Chafer'sMistral sprayer has firmly established itself atthe top of the sprayer tree in terms of both priceand specification. Now we turn our attention toits smaller brother, the Mirage…
March 12, 1999
Driving impression:The Hardi Alpha and its distinctive 'droop snoot' may not win many beauty contests, but that beauty – or lack of it – is only paint deep. Much more important is how the sprayer…
August 15, 1998
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…
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