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The Maxx Line Standard range featuring 8,600 or 10,600 litre capacities comes with or without integral loading arms.
Founded in Germany as recently as 1977, today, the Fliegl Group employs more than 1100 workers, offering an expansive range of transport solutions, from their base in Bavaria.
The company is also heavily involved in handling liquid effluents, with a range of tankers from basic farmer models, through to high spec, high output contractor units.
Distributed in New Zealand by the Power Farming Group, the Maxx Line Standard range is available ex-stock, with 8,600 or 10,600 litre capacities, with or without integral loading arms.
Featuring fully galvanised componentry, tanks feature integral baffles, while large section tyres help protect against damage to swards, while hydraulic braking systems, means tankers stop safely and under control.
Equipped with a 11,000 litre/min pump, the base machine uses a 6-inch suction intake, while machines fitted with the integral boom loading system, moves to an 8-inch diameter intake for faster filling and turnaround.
Both capacities feature a sprung drawbar assembly, working in conjunction with an unsprung single axle. Standard equipment includes a silenced pump/compressor assembly, fill level indicators Hydraulic changeover valve for filling or emptying, double syphons and a full lighting kit.
Elsewhere in the extensive range, double and triple-axle layouts complement capacities of 3000 to 27,500 litres within the MaxxLine, Maxxline Plus and Alpha Line families.
Offered with a choice of discharge/spreading options, the entry level splash plate can be upgraded to the highlevel impact head unit to help reduce nitrate losses from by up to 30%.
For those looking for better utilisation and more accuracy of application, more specialised trailing shoe and disc injection methods are available.
Both secondary application systems are “fed” by a screw auger system that includes dedicated traps to remove foreign objects and stones to remove the risk of blockages in the delivery hoses.
The Skate Drag Shoe applicator, improves on conventional trailing shoe set-ups, by offering a pressure of up to 8kg per shoe, while also featuring mechanical or hydraulically activated section control, while featuring a 250mm hose spacing. A comfort function offers automatic folding and headland turns, while also incorporating antidrip stop feature when folded.
The Vari-Disc injection system allows operators to incorporate effluent in the top 5 to 10cms of the soil profile, offering easy access of nutrients to plants, while also eliminating odours in sensitive areas.
Using 530mm diameter, angled, spring loaded discs, the unit is available in 3m, 5.56m and 7.15m operating widths, with 11, 22 and28 outlets, each unit folding to less than 3 metres width for transport.
Massey Ferguson has announced a strategic supply partnership with International Tractors Limited (ITL), a manufacturer of low-horsepower and compact tractors, with recognised brands such as Sonalika and Sollis, to expand its portfolio with a new tractor range.
With the biannual Italian EIMA machinery Expo less than a month away, Case IH has taken out a Technical Evolution award for the Advanced Vehicle Suspension system available on its Optum 360–440 series tractors.
The Advanced Vehicle Suspension system, available on Optum 360, 390, and 440 models, responds to changing conditions, automatically adjusting how the suspension reacts to absorbs shocks and controlling vehicle movement.
In operation, sensors monitor the vibrations transmitted from the tractor chassis to the operator cabin, allowing the system to adjust suspension damping in real time. The control system incorporates key priorities, such as comfort at lower speeds and stability as speed increases, while also reacting to factors such as lower tyre pressures, where the tyres absorb more of the initial shock.
Case IH said as suspension requirements change throughout the working day, as tractors move between the paddock and road transport, the system manages suspension response in the background as tasks, speeds and conditions change, leaving the operator without the need to make manual adjustments.
Richard Hollins, Optum series tractors global product manager, said: “Pioneering technology must earn its place in the working day. Farmers and contractors will judge an investment by what it delivers, including manageable ownership costs, dependable up-time and the versatility to tackle different jobs. With AVS, we are putting intelligent control to work for comfort and stability, without giving the operator another setting to manage.”
Organised by FederUnacoma, the Italian Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Federation, the contest has been part of EIMA since 1986, with the Technical Evolution distinction awarded to products that introduce original improvements to solutions already manufactured or patented.
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