Mini Digger - Schaffer Articulated Loader Case Studies
3033S
Schaffer owners NS Flowers
Industry type Horticulture
Location Oakford,
Perth, Western Australia
Model 3033S
mini digger
Accessories Forks,
jib, GP bucket
Usage Moving
fertiliser and potting mix, shovelling coal for heating nursery, general
earthworks
Requirement A
mini digger capable of negotiating tight nursery aisles with the strength to
lift and carry with ease
Flower business blooms with Schaffer 3033S mini digger
Neil and Sonia Reid grow cut flowers for the florist trade
in Oakford, a southern suburb of Perth. In March 2005 they became Australia’s
first Schaffer customer when they purchased a 3033S articulated mini digger to
ease their daily workload.
Their nursery,
NS Flowers, specialises in roses, gerberas and gypsophilias. The roses and
gerberas are produced in heated plastic tunnel houses, while other flowers are
raised in shade houses.
The Reids
needed a mini digger to take the hard work out of moving bags of fertiliser and
potting mix, as well as shovelling coal into the hopper to heat the nursery and
removing the ashes.
Neil explains:
“I borrowed my father-in-law’s machine initially, a front end loader on a
tractor. But I needed a narrower machine to use in the nursery. Our central
path is only 1.6m wide. We don’t want a wide path because we would lose growing
area.”
Schaffer
Loaders soon arranged for a demonstration of their 3033S mini digger at the
nursery, and it didn’t take Neil and Sonia long to decide.
“We’ve been
very happy with it,” Neil says. “It’s compact and manoeuvrable, with good power
and lifting capacity. We’ve set the machine’s width at 1400mm. The width can be
varied, depending on the wheels and tyres.”
Neil says the
Schaffer 3033S mini digger is very strong and well built with good hydraulics
and a Kubota engine. “All of the controls can be used with one hand,” he adds.
All Schaffer
loaders are engineered and built in Germany, steeped in the tradition of
engineering excellence that produces Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
TEC SPEC
Engine
Kubota V1505T
- 45hp
Speed
Single
speed, 15km/hr
Wheels and tyres
31x15.5-15
Total width
1400mm
Bucket pivot point
2950mm
ROPS
Fold-down ROPS
Sales 1300 88 21 61 Cameron Moir 0417 669 707
cmoir@schaffer-loaders.com.au