Customer Projects

Nairn Harvesters Ltd

When Hyspecs was approached by the production manager at Nairn Harvesters Ltd to offer a drive system for their latest grape harvester there were 2 key criteria they stressed to us: delivery needed to be short as the customer had requested delivery of the completed machine in under 2 months, and the system needed to work well right from the start (there was no time for trial and error).

Machine Requirements:
• 4-wheel drive system with anti-skid
• Harvesting at a speed of 6km/hr on a gradient of up to 30%
• The machine would be able to climb a gradient of nearly 33%
• Under ideal harvesting conditions it is capable of removing up to 28,000kg of grapes off the vine per hour
• Top road speed of 32km/h (could be 39 km/h with a different gearbox/pump arrangement)

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Austral Leader 2 Fishing Vessel Conversion 

The Hyspecs service team was involved in the complete conversion of the fishing vessel, Austral Leader 2 from a purse seiner net fisher to a long liner. The job, in summary, was the refitting of a vessel to a line hauler and pot hauler for the Patagonian tooth fish for which our customer fishes in the South Atlantic.

It involved several stages and over 1500 hours work by our service technicians over the course of around 8 weeks. Not only were we providing new equipment but also had to utilise existing hydraulic components.

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