The UK’s leading supplier of vegetable handling equipment has delivered its first Supa Fill 600 PRO XL.
FF Goose & Sons in south Lincolnshire took delivery of Haith’s latest box filler last month to replace a 2014 Haith box filler.
Designed to work across the end of a 2400-wide (eight-foot) grader, the Supa Fill 600 PRO XL removes the need for a cross conveyor and uses one less drop point.
The Supa Fill 600 PRO XL offers several innovative features, including a patented three variable speed belt system for gentle crop transition. Haith has also replaced the shaft-mounted motor gearbox units with powered drum motors, and a positive drive rack and pinion arrangement has been used instead of the traditional chain and sprocket transmission.
The result of these innovations is a box filler that can handle up to 60 boxes per hour, which is achieved as one box filling conveyor can be lowered into position while the opposite side is filling. Single belt machines cannot deliver this.
Haith developed the XL version of the Supa Fill 600 PRO at the request of David Goose when he was visiting the company’s factory searching for a well-built, suitably wide box filler with high capacity.
“When I saw Haith’s new box filler being built, I was so impressed that I asked Duane if he had plans to develop an even larger version,” said David. “I was really pleased when Haith took on the challenge; the result is a fantastic machine.”
David farms in partnership with his wife Julia and daughters Holly and Nenah, growing potatoes, onions, brassicas and cereals.
Holly and Nenah have been impressed with the Supa Fill 600 PRO XL, with Holly saying: “Every box is perfectly filled and we haven’t seen any damage even on our most delicate potato crops.”
Duane Hill, Haith’s managing director, adds: “We are extremely proud of the new box filler, which is a modern-day version of the original 1995 Supa-fil 600. If our new model is as popular as its predecessor over the next 30 years, we will be very happy. We are fortunate to have customers like F F Goose who trust us to design and supply their vegetable handling kit across multiple generations.”
