Farms and Farm Machinery

Sam’s the man

Spreaders are constantly evolving. While some linkage machines spread more accurately than trailed fertiliser spreaders, their capacity is often a major downfall.

This is where the trailing Sam Spreader eats up its opposition. The six-tonne fertiliser spreader we tested has a total capacity of 4.6 cubic metres, and can handle six tonnes of superphosphate, 7.7t of lime and 3.7t of urea.

Built by the team at Coombridge and Alexander, the machine we tested is a 2015

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