Agribusiness | Fairbrothers Industries
Leading agricultural machinery Fairbrother Industries Limited has recently purchased Hooper Cultivation and has already made improvements to this range of agricultural machinery. Hooper Cultivation has been manufacturing its range of cultivation equipment and farm machinery in New Zealand for more than 85 years.
These products are designed for New Zealand conditions and can be manufactured to suit customers’ specific requirements. Hooper disc harrows are designed for primary and secondary tillage and cultivation under all types of New Zealand farming conditions. The range includes offset, tandem, heavy duty and giant disc machines, all with the many unique Hooper features and manufactured to the highest standards. The range of blades available for these machines are - plain, scalloped, lobed and fluted and in sizes from 450mm to 801mm in diameter. The Hooper Douglas chain-harrow range has been proven over 60 years to give an even ground coverage and prepare fine and level seedbeds. All chain harrows feature rotating rings, spiked links and drawbars and are available in 12mm and 16mm steel. Heavier harrows are made in 20mm and 24mm material. The range of chain harrows includes smaller harrows for general farm work up to models
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The Hooper Cultivation brand offers a full range of cultivation machinery, including large wheel-controlled disc harrows, trailed disc harrows, chain and covering harrows, cultivators and subsoilers or mole ploughs.
Fairbrother Industries has recently purchased Hooper Cultivation’s range of quality agricultural machinery.
for heavy land development. Harrows range in size from 1.5m wide through to 4.27m. Other popular models include covering and contractors’ harrows. The Hooper range of Flexitine cultivators provides excellent seedbed preparation, weed control, stubble mulching and landlevelling capabilities. Heavy-duty 12mm S-type tines are the key to perfect high-speed performance. Standard cultivators are available in widths from 1.8m to 3.65m. Hoopers’ folding Triflex cultivator comes in widths from 4.2m up to 6.3m. The Hooper subsoiler, or mole plough, is widely used for pan breaking, root pruning and pipe laying and has an optional mole plough pipe-laying attachment. Hooper Cultivation also offers a range of special VBC vineyard implements.
Hooper Cultivation’s range of quality cultivation machinery includes: Disc harrows • Hooper Series MB4100 offset • Hooper Series 2400 offset • Hooper Series 2200 offset • Hooper tandem Delta II • Hooper HD tandem (heavy duty) • Hooper super giant disc
Long-standing Hooper brand Fairbrother Industries is consolidating its aquisition of Hooper Cultivation and confirming its position as a marketplace leader. Sales and marketing manager Ken Lawson says the Hooper brand has been around for many years. “Sales of Hooper machinery are going well. We’re stabilising the company and getting it back into the marketplace through re-establishing the brand,” says Ken.
Chain harrows • Douglas chain harrows • Hooper covering harrows
“We have been able to retain the valuable knowledge of Paul Hooper, whom we purchased the business from. Paul was the third generation of Hoopers to operate the company.”
Cultivators • Hooper Series 204 cultivator • Hooper Triflex folding cultivator • Hooper big foot ripper Subsoilers • Hooper subsoiler (mole plough) Vineyard • Dry pruner • Full-row side-shoot remover • Backhoe • Leaf cleaner • Vine trimmer with blades C0 • Vine trimmer with blades C2V • Vine trimmer with reciprocating blades • Vine trimmer with Blades C4.
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Hooper Cultivation Delta discs.
Fairbrother Industries and Hooper Cultivation 9 Bay Park Place Beachhaven Auckland Freephone 0800 476 868 T (09) 482 0866 E sales@fairbrother.co.nz www.kinghitter.com www.hoopermachinery.co.nz
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