Sungold Field Days: Rhys Evans, Colac, exhibiting SAM spreaders

FOR more than 20 years the team at Rhys Evans Farm Machinery at Colac has made the annual trek to Allansford for the Sungold Field Days.

Paddock pleaser: Rhys Evans sales consultant Mick Milbourne with the SAM spreader.

FOR more than 20 years the team at Rhys Evans Farm Machinery at Colac has made the annual trek to Allansford for the Sungold Field Days.

“It is the only field days in our area,” joint owner Sue Kerr said.

“It is the biggest and the best and the one that most farmers, in our area, attend.”

Rhys Evans sales consultant Mick Milbourne is optimistic about the field days due to sheep and beef prices and a “slight” dairy recovery.

The business will be exhibit the Sam spreaders, which they have imported from New Zealand for the past 5.5 years.

Mr Milbourne said the spreaders, from two and 2.5 tonnes and up to 10 tonnes, could be used for granular fertiliser, spreading dry manure or lime.

Lime was suited to this spreader due to its floor belt, Mr Milbourne said.

He said that unlike other spreaders, where lime could become “caked up” in the bin so the agitator could not move it, the 800mm belt ensured the flow of the product so that it was being spread.

Other features of the spreader include twin 600mm spinner discs, which ensure an “even-spread pattern” of many spreadable products, a polythene bin and a “ground drive” function providing “consistent and accurate spread pattern regardless of the ground speed”.