Manual Potting Equipment

Potting Station 4 m³

Double sided hand pot filling machine with four cubic metre hopper

  • Easily adjustable for different pot sizes, no tools required
  • Gravity feed hopper
  • Fill by bobcat or conveyorPot template and adjustable pot support on potting station
  • No moving parts, minimum maintenance
  • Simple and reliable

Potting Station Specifications

  • 4 cubic metres capacity
  • Dimensions – 1.5m wide x 2.5m high x 3.2m long
  • 3mm mild steel, painted finish
  • Double sided operation takes up to seven 16” diameter pots on each side
  • Three custom sizes of pot holding templates supplied with each potting station
  • Templates are made from sturdy 3mm galvanised sheet
  • Galvanised sheet metal cylinders, for potting into bags, are also available
  • Option - heavy duty castors
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Potting Bench and Hopper

  • The simple method of setting up a workflow pattern for straight filling of tubes, trays and pots of all sizes with a bulk loaded hopper
  • Manufactured from heavy galvanised steel
  • Mounting frame made of robust angle iron
  • Built to provide many years of uninterrupted service

Specifications

Small

  • Capacity – 1.8 cubic metres
  • Dimensions – 1.2m wide x 2m high x 1.8m long

Large

  • Capacity – 2.5 cubic metres
  • Dimensions – 1.2m wide x 2m high x 2.4m long

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Potting Trailer

  • Simple method of moving potting media directly to where it’s needed and potting straight out of the trailer.

Specifications

  • Capacity – 1 cubic metre
  • Dimensions – 0.5m wide 1m x high x 2.4m long
  • Galvanised body- 2.4m x 0.9m x 0.5m
  • Both sides hinged down for your ease and convenience
  • Open working area when sides down: 2.4m x 2m wide
  • Draw bar folds up when not in tow

 

 

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"Beantree" Dispatch Bench

  • Designed by a nursery person, “Liz”. It answers a lot of your dispatch problems and issues.

Reasons to have these “Beantree” pre-delivery benches

  • Keep dispatch area organized and clean
  • Flexibility in layout of benching can be changed to suit different situations
  • Benches can be easily wheeled away to provide open space for nursery tasks in your shed
  • Multiple benches can be placed together end to end or back to back
  • Easy removal of roots by rubbing pots across the steel mesh
  • All waste falls through the holes into the bin under the bench
  • Minimal hand movements & body twisting by dispatch staff
  • Easy disposal of cuttings
  • Ergonomic work height
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Potting Bench And Shelf

  • Simple and effective this small bench fits into those small spaces and is ideal for propagating, potting up, or just to have a small bench to work on in dispatch or your equipment shed.
  • Manufactured with a shelf underneath to help provide that extra bit of storage and versatility and made to meet the small budget

Specifications

  • Small dimensions – 1,100mm wide x 600mm depth x 400mm height sides
  • Half full capacity – 0.13 cubic metres
  • Working height – 860mm
  • Shelf height – 200mm
  • Frame – 30 × 30 × 2mm galvabond
  • Shelf – 2mm galvabond

Potting benches can be manufactured to give wheel chair access and appropriate working heights.

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Propagation Or Potting Bench With Sides

  • Folded galvanised bench top minimises contamination of old potting media caught in cracks.
  • 300mm sides prevents spillage of potting media when loading bench with front end loaders
  • Built to last for many years

Specifications

1.8 metres long

  • Two sides 300mm high right or left handed.
  • Ergonomic working height of 860mm
  • 2mm galvanised bench top

2.4 metres long

  • Three sides 300mm high
  • Ergonomic working height of 860mm
  • 2mm galvanised bench top

3.6 metres long

  • Three sides 300mm high
  • Ergonomic working height of 860mm
  • 2mm galvanised bench top
  • Consists of two 1.8 metre benches bolted together = 3.6m bench.
  • Makes it easier for transport
  • Can be disassembled to create two (2) 1.8m long propagating/potting benches.
  • 2mm galvanised bench top folded at corners minimising contamination by old potting media in cracks.

Options

  • Castors (lockable) to have benches mobile
  • Bottom shelf
  • Potting benches can be manufactured to give wheel chair access and appropriate working heights.
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Potting Bench With Fold Down Side

  • Simple and effective this large galvanised steel bench is ideal for propagating and potting up.
  • Manufactured with a side that can be folded up when your front-end loader is filling the bench with soil so that the soil doesn’t spill off the edge of the bench.
  • Release the barrel bolts and lower the side and have a handy clean bench top to commence your work.
  • Side wings at each end of the fold down front would swing out and lock into place to stop soil spilling off ends of the working area.
  • Built to an ergonomic working height of 860mm
  • Galvanised steel used in manufacture, minimising rust
  • Special hinging system so hinges don’t rust.

Specifications

  • Dimensions (closed)- 2,400mm width x 880mm depth x 300mm height sides
  • Half full capacity – 0.3 cubic metres
  • Working height – 860mm
  • Workspace – 2,400mm wide x 1,180mm deep when side folded down
  • Sides and back – 300mm high with a double folded edge for safety
  • Frame – 40 × 40 × 2mm rectangular hollow section galvabond
  • Shelf – 2mm galvabond
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Pot Accumulator

  • Place it at the end of your take-off conveyor on the potting machine
  • Gives your operator time to load trailers, etc
  • Removes the problem of having to stop the potting machine because there are no trailers available to take product away
  • Strong construction using rectangular hollow section, duragal steel
  • Table extremities supported with bearings
  • 240-volt motor and gearbox
  • Adjustable feet for uneven surfaces
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A.D.A.S. Potting Bench

  • A.D.A.S potting bench for hand potting by four persons simultaneously.
  • Hopper can be filled by a conveyor coming from a soil mixer or soil bunker.
  • Researchers at the agricultural development and advisory service in england developed this hand potting bench design.
  • Using the a.d.a.s nursery bench designed with 4 hand potting positions provides more efficient potting techniques and dramatically improves hand potting output rates.

Specifications

  • The hopper contains 400 litres of growing media.
  • Hopper is galvanised sheet etched primed and enamel painted.
  • Galvanised workbench top is 2.4 metres square.
  • Height to bench top is 915mm.
  • Overall height to top of hopper 2,060mm
  • 3mm galvanised steel deck.
  • Galvanised legs and cold gal painted welds.

Other nursery equipment such as Beantree Dispatch Bench, Spring Benching, Potting Trailer, Pot lifter/handler which also reduce risk of getting injury and increase work efficiency are also available. 

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Problems we have solved for customers                   Read Testimonials

*[Nursery Manager]* At an exhibition saw our self tracking nursery trailers and indicated he had a costly issue transporting large (heavy) pots containing advanced trees. Existing method was a bobcat. C-Mac designed and quoted for the manufacture of a Self Tracking “Low Loader”. His comment on the first day of using "Low Loader trailer":nursery-equipment/7-trailers/#low-loader-self-tracking-trailer “Can now move 100 litre pots with trees, 150 metres in 1 hr and not get a sore back”.

*[Service Manager]* An industrial fan service company had a failure of a major shopping centre air conditioning fan/ blower. C-Mac repaired the unit within a 24hr turn around for minimum downtime.

*[General Manager]* Customer had to submit a proposal and compete against other countries for the manufacturing facility. C-Mac submitted drawings to show there was space in existing plant to install the new process and to comply with all Australian OH&S Standards. Working together with customer to submit proposal to the Head Office overseas WON the contract. Project was a success meeting 6month lead time and budget.

*[Mechanical Design Engineer]* An automotive transmission design customer needed help with designing an automatic transmission gear prototype. We suggested and engineered a more cost effective and practical way for the mass production stage.

*[Maintenance Engineer]* An industrial hydraulic fitting manufacturer had problems with gear and shaft breakages with their machinery. They also had problems repairing and maintaining. C-Mac offered to repair and maintain their machinery on-site instead of having to permanently employ fitters.

*[Nursery Owner]* Needed a specific Potting & Mixing machine. for his yuccas nursery, but the problem was it was no longer manufactured. From his description and specifications our engineers designed and modelled in 3D software his requirements. "Potting Machine":nursery-equipment/3-potting-machines/ was manufactured and fully tested with potting media in our workshop, video was then sent to customer who was very pleased with the results. Machine disassembled and freighted interstate and installed.

*[RAAF - Warrant Officer]* Airfield support staff required a portable sandbagging frame and requested a design, prototype and trials at no cost. There was nothing suitable on the market i.e. made in Australia. "Sandbagging Frames":materials-handling/1-bagging-equipment#silt-bagging-frame are now on the national procurement data base and some probably overseas at different war zones.

*[Owner]* An industrial laundry system service company needed repairs and redesign done to their tooling. C-Mac made changes to the tooling to make access and ease of use to decrease service down times.

*[Purchasing Officer]* A mining design and machining company needed help with machining components urgently as they were too busy to keep up with the demand. C-Mac machined the components so the deadline could be met.

*[Owner/Manager]* A major food manufacturer specializing in tomato sauce had a filling machine breakdown. The machine was brought to C-Mac and repaired in 24hrs for minimum downtime of the production line costing $5,000 per hour.


Locate Us

72-74 Mandoon Road
GIRRAWEEN NSW 2145

Phone: (02) 9631 6000
Fax: (02) 9688 4679
E-Mail: info@cmac.com.au

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