With the eastern seaboard facing up to another record winter crop, spreader production at Coolamon in southern NSW has been in top gear for the past 12 months.

Coolamon Spreaders NSW and Victoria regional sales manager Shane Cummins said the company was seeing chaser bin build spots being taken for 2022, has spreader chasers available for delivery in early 2022 and some spreaders in stock for immediate delivery.

Growers will be able to see the spreader range at dealer demonstration days running throughout the country.

Mr Cummins said the Federal Government’s stimulus package combined with the turnaround in the seasonal outlook had created heavy demand for the company’s range of compact and larger spreaders.

The Coolamon Spreader is capable of a controlled spread of up to 50 metres, giving a consistent 36 metre coverage of urea and a 15 metre coverage of lime.

Ranging from 7500 to 14,500 litres, the spreaders are ideal for granulated products such as lime, gypsum, potash, urea, poultry manure, feedlot waste, crusher dust and superphosphate.

The beauty of the CS is the quick change over between products – literally just 10 minutes.

Running on a proven bearing system, the spinners are steel caste with rounded backs, create a negative pressure at the centre of the disc and pulling the product into the middle before throwing it out.

The Coolamon CS is the only spreader on the market with a one metre wide cleated belt and variable sized cones.

“That enables the operator to handle all products from granulated fertiliser to gypsum, lime, compost, chook manure and through to crusher dust,” Mr Cummins said.

“To change over from one product to another, it is a simple adjustment to the deflectors at the rear of the machine, reset the spinner speed and application with the rate controller.

“The spreader is ISO compatible with the weight scale interface – simply plug and play. With the scales, we found a lot of benefits with customers variable rating gypsum and lime based on prescription supplied by their agronomist. The interface weight scales automatically take into account the moisture density in the product. 

“Over a paddock, there will be very little product left over if you run variable rate application map with the scales on the spreader.”

He said the CS represented a low ownership cost with the hard-wearing cast iron vanes able to handle a lot of product.

Mr Cummins said there was a swing towards large capacity trailed spreaders for urea application.

“One of our strong points is we are now accredited to 36m with urea, which is driving a lot of sales because people can see the benefits of the huge efficiency gains of a high capacity hopper trailing spreader,” he said. 

“As the Coolamon spreader can spread most other products on farms, it is not a three point linkage granular spreader anymore – it can do lime, gypsum, manure, urea and single super.

“One tractor, one GPS and one spreader to do more than one job.”

Mr Cummins said the company’s range of Compact Spreaders was impressing growers with the production capacity and the products able to be spread. 

“Our spreader chaser has been popular with growers spreading high rates of poultry or cow manure because of the large hopper and spreading capacity,” he said.

Mr Cummins said Coolamon Spreaders had now been proven over the past four to five years in the paddock, with growers impressed with the Australian build quality.

Aside from supporting local community groups and sporting clubs, Coolamon is back on the nation’s field day circuit showcasing the range of chaser bins, large capacity and compact spreaders, and the combination spreader chaser bins.

Riverina Field Days, Griffith, is the first cab off the rank followed by AgQuip, Dowerin Machinery Field Days, Mallee Machinery Field Days, Newdgate, Yorke Peninsula and Henty Machinery Field Days.

For details on the range of Coolamon Spreaders visit coolamon.com.au