Nursery Equipment

Trommel System

• Wondering what to do with the waste heap? recycle.
• Separate potting medium and waste

Specifications

• Loading hopper – suitable height for manual loading
• Elevating conveyor (6m long) has a cover to contain product on conveyor belt and minimise dust
• Semi-automated process
• Trommel has adjustable legs to vary angle to optimise process
• Flexible discharge chute to spread load in receiving bins
• Galvanised steel and enamel painted
• Variable speed forward and reverse on trommel; 20 degree angle
• Conveyors are provided with scrapers to keep the belt clean during the operation
• Discharge conveyor (4.7m long) can be used for bagging cleaned product
• Optional refuse conveyor for loading bins/truck, etc…

Pot Handlers

Also known as Pot Lifter or Pot Lifting Handle

Back problems are common in the horticultural industry. Simple lifting devices can help.

• Light weight
• Numerous sizes available or can be made to suit your special pot size.
• Takes the back strain out of the repetative task of moving and lifting pots
• Convenient carrying of plants with one hand
• Carry up to 9 x 100 dia. pots if required
• Use either right or left hand
• Double handles can be fitted for shelf or trailer loading or unloading

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Pallet Racking

Size (l x w x h): 1170 × 1170 × 2200 mm

• Can be disassembled for clear walking access through truck
• Base has no protrusions to minimise walking trip points
• Can be disassembled to minimise storage space
• Allows for fork-lift loading of truck from rear or side loading
• Suitable for moving by pallet jack when rear loaded
• Pallet can be moved by 2 people easily if forklift not available
• Made from strong duragal steel
• Weights: side rack – 18kg, base only- 60kg, tie bar – 2.5kg assembled weight = 101kg
• Company name welded on pallet base
• 500mm shelf spacing
• Plywood shelves stack between up-rights for storage
• 18mm plywood shelves (not supplied)

Hand Trolley For Moving Potted Trees

• Designed to move 200 litre pots with advanced trees
• Adjustable trunk support, padded to prevent damage to tree
• Heavy duty painted steel construction
• Pneumatic wheels for eazy maneuverability on any type of surface
• Base size 400 × 700 wide
• Maximum carrying capacity 250 kgs

Hand Trolley For Moving Large Pots

• Designed to move large pots; custom made sizes available for different pot diameters.
• Heavy duty painted steel construction
• Pneumatic wheels for eazy maneuverability on any type of surface

Barrow And Trolleys

Rail top barrow (1220 × 610) & (1830 × 610)

• These barrows are easy to use in the home, farm or nursery.
• Manufactured from heavy-duty steel and galvanized for all weather conditions and with pneumatic wheels.
• Comes in flat pak for easy freighting or pre-assembled

Rail top 4 wheeled barrow (1210 × 610)

• Our research team in accordance with occupational health and safety guide lines has developed a new 4 wheeled barrow.
• The new 4 wheeled barrow is very stable, has 2 heavy duty pneumatic tyres and 2 solid swivel wheels which makes it more maneuverable for easy handling.
• Comes in flat pak for easy freighting or pre-assembled.

Rail top 4 wheeled barrow (1830 × 610)

• No lifting with the 4 wheeled barrow
• The 4 wheeled barrow has 2 heavy duty pneumatic tyres and 2 solid swivel wheels.
• Made from galvanized steel.
• Both the 1210 × 610 and 1830 × 610 can be fitted a brake, at an additional cost.

Retail nursery trolley (915 × 457mm)

• Easy to use in the home, farm or nursery.
• The 4 wheeled barrow has 2 heavy duty pneumatic tyres and 2 solid swivel wheels.
• Manufactured from heavy-duty steel and mesh, galvanized for all weather conditions.

Tree Trolley - 45 Litre Bag

• Designed to move large mature trees.
• Ideal for transporting or moving potted trees on this plant trolley.
• Custom made sizes available for different bag sizes.
• Heavy duty galvanised steel and painted steel construction.
• Pneumatic wheels for easy manoeuvrability on any type of surface.

Rotating Table

The “lazy Susan” for the work shop.

SPECIFICATIONS:

• 1.82 metre diameter.
• Adjustable height to suit your operator or existing equipment
• * Simply relocate the pin
• Table top manufactured from 3mm galvanised steel
• Robust construction
• Simple and easy to use

Uses:

• Holding trays for pricking out
• Use as a potting table for potting up small quantities
• Holding plants/trays ready for potting up on a potting Machine.
• Holding soil

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Trough Benches

Trough Benches is one of C-Mac's custom built, made to order horticultural benches for subirrigation systems. Continuous lengths of gutter and manufactured in DIY or kit benches using the "Spring Benching System" makes for easy installation. 

Trough Benches are also known as "Gutter Subirrigation" or "Trough Subirrigation" benches.

What is Subirrigation?  

Subirrigation is a method of irrigation where water is delivered to the plant root zone from below the soil surface and absorbed upwards. The excess may be collected for reuse.

In general used for potted plants, there are three basic systems:

1. Ebb-and-flow benches and trough benches,
2. Flooded floor systems.
3. Closed, recirculating subirrigation systems,

Ebb-and-flow

In this system, Bench-mounted tray enclosures holding pots are filled and then drained. The system consists of a shallow, molded plastic bench top which is flooded with water and fertilizer to both water and feed the plants. When irrigation is complete, the remaining solution drains from the bench and is pumped back to a storage tank.

Flooded Floor

In this system, Special sloped concrete flooring is flooded and drained.

The entire floor of the greenhouse is covered with concrete carefully designed and installed to pitch toward openings in the floor. Through these openings the irrigation solution enters to flood the floor and, following flooding, the excess drains back to the storage tank.

Trough

In this system, water flows through bench-mounted, slightly sloping troughs containing pots. The trough (gutter) is placed on benching that is pitched slightly from the inlet to the outlet end. This helps water flow by gravity.

This system works by running a film of irrigation water down a slightly inclined, shallow metal trough (gutter) holding the plants. The troughs empty into a return channel for recirculation. The pots or flats in the trough have plenty of opportunity to absorb solution as it runs past. 

 Why use Trough Bench Subirrigation System?

• This system is easy to learn and can be fine tuned to suit a variety of crops.
• Increase Greenhouse efficiency: improves production capacity by having 70%-80% space in greenhouse.
• Grow plants uniformly and reduce foliar disease.
• Increase in plant uniformity may be the result of more even and complete moistening of the growth medium and better distribution of nutrients absorbed by capillary flow.  
• Absence of water on the leaves using subirrigation may result in less foliar disease.
• Save labour
• A single person can water thousands of plants by operating the flooding system manually or with the help of a computer.
• Amount of time needed to water the crop drops dramatically.
• Decrease in labor need will help free up workers to do other tasks.
• Save water and fertilizer
• According to research (see document below), water and fertilizer usage was cut over 50% by using a close system since water and fertilizer(nutrient solution) are recirculated and not lost by leaching or runoff.
• Less fertilizer is needed, resulting a in lower cost to produce the same quality product.
• Increase safety (Long term benefit)
• It is safer for the environment as water containing fertilizers and chemicals will not leach into our valuable drinking water supplies, helping our children and future generations.
• Less chemicals were needed, cutting down on workers exposure to pesticides and fungicides.
• Reduce risks of getting injuries among workers when doing repetitious manual handling tasks (391 injuries claims in Nursery and Garden industry in NSW since 2008)
•  Cost effective
• Existing bench frames can be retrofitted.
• The productivity of system is maintained at a high level due to 70%-80% space saving in greenhouse and the reduction of labor, water, fertilizers and chemicals etc.
• Usually trough benches payback time is 2-3 years rather than 5-10 years by choosing other subirrigation system.

Trough Irrigation versus Traditioanl Overhead Watering in a commercial greenhouse operation

Why use C-Mac Trough Benches?

 High Quality

• Specially made color bond trough (gutter) and heavy duty galvanized steel tube.
• Extremely strong and light weight
• AUSTRALIAN MADE product.
• C-Mac Industries is ISO 9001:2008 Quality certified ensuring procedures are maintained and continuously improved.

Customized

• SPECIAL MADE TO ORDER possible because C-Mac Invests heavily on modular "Spring Benching" system which allows for flexibility in design.
• The troughs can be obtained in various lengths and widths from C-Mac.
• All your special orders are at a minimum cost, because the advanced technology of manufacturing the product requires NO ADDITIONAL SETUP OR EXTRA LABOR COSTS.

Flexible

• Easy to assemble.
• Supplied in kit form (minimize transport costs).

If you wish to make an inquiry, please contact Suzi by sending emails to sales@cmac.com.au or calling 02 9631 6000

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Other nursery equipment such as potting bench, Shade house, Trailer, Pot lifter/handler which reduce risk of getting injury and increase work efficiency and production are also available.