Manufacturing and Engineering Magazine Volume 425 - January 2016 | Page 45

MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING DALE DRILLS
machines and the inevitable wearing of parts.
With our flagship Eco-Drill, we offer a low
energy means of establishing the crop.”
Launched in 2010, the Eco-Drill has yet to
wane in popularity. Winning four LAMMA
awards, including the Maurice High Trophy for
the Best New Product or Innovation at its
release, it's a highly versatile model capable of
drilling direct and conventional seedbeds and
everything in between. Adept in multi-tasking,
the drill can also drill up to two thirds of the
fertiliser needed for growth, making for more
concentrated fertilisation.
While Dale Drills' machines have historically lent themselves easily to large and medium-scale farming clients (from 800 to 5000
acres), the recent development of two smaller
seed drills has seen the company broaden its
capabilities and the range of clients it can
accommodate. “Throughout development,
the range of drills we've created have typically
worked at a width of 6 metres or more, inad-

the company's drills also
pose minimal disruption
to soil beds, and Dale
Drills actively promotes
efficient farming
vertently excluding smaller farmers who simply couldn't make use of drills operating at
that size,” explains Dale. “Over the last eighteen months we've worked on opening up that
market, creating drills with a significantly narrower working width.”
Maintaining the capabilities of their namesake, the company's Eco 3 and Eco T offer the ability to work at widths as small as 3 metres and have
proven attractive to both the smaller farming
clients to which they were geared and larger
clients who require flexibility in drilling processes.
Though its client base may be growing, Dale
Drills is unwilling to relinquish the care and
attention defining its approach to customer
service and, sourcing local suppliers, customers
can expect fast turnarounds when it comes to
drill maintenance or repair. And having developed a range of drills that protects the life and
futurity of soil, and therefore which safeguard
both the industry and organisms to which the
soil plays host, they're machines worth looking
after. With corporate responsibility effectively
embedded at a concept stage, and proving
something of an asset to the company's innovation ambitions, Dale Drills might just have
struck the perfect balance.
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