The manufacturer of fertiliser spreaders 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 federal government's stimulus package combined with improved seasonal conditions 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, he said.
"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 Coolamon Spreader is the quick change over between products - literally just 10 minutes," he said.
"The spinners are steel caste with rounded backs which create a negative pressure at the centre of the disc and pull 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 prescriptions 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."
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.
"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.
