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HARDI Australia’s Self-Propelled sprayers offer globally renowned comfort and ease for weed spraying.

HARDI has designed a range of Self-Propelled sprayers with the priority of ensuring your comfort and enjoyment through those long spraying days. 

Their range has slowly developed and evolved to meet the growing needs of Australian farmers.

HARDI Australia guarantees the innovative and evolutionary spraying range will become your unrivalled agricultural experience.

The RUBICON is a prime example as it establishes a new class of self-propelled sprayers that pushes the limit of efficiency and productivity. 

The RUBICON has the power, torque, tank, and fuel capacity to work effortlessly all day. 

With tank options up to 9000 litres, this machine meets the productivity demands of large-scale farmers, as the seamless integration of capacity and ease of operation delivers hectare-eating performance to conquer everyday spraying tasks with ease.

Farmers know that time and timing are critical factors for spraying, especially on large paddocks. The RUBICON's class-leading capacity reduces travel and filling downtime, so you can keep spraying and finish sooner. 

Already packed with loads of features, adding the 48.5m HARDI PARAGON AL boom provides farmers with a 35% increase in work rate compared to other entry-level booms, comfortably covering a work rate of 170 hectares per hour, covering over 1,000 hectares per day.  

A further fine addition to the Self-Propelled units is the uniquely Australian SARITOR, which takes a well-proven advanced sprayer to the next level. 

The SARITOR is HARDI-built from the ground up and sets new standards in broadacre spraying.

This powerful machine is fitted with a 6200L tank and a 300hp Cummins 6.7L diesel engine.

Adding in a range of steel or HARDI PARAGON aluminium booms from 36m to 48.5m, the acres covered improve with an unrivalled ride and remarkably precise height management.

HARDI's 30+ years of experience have allowed the team to grow and develop new products fit to suit local Australian farmers. 

One of the most credibly and exceptional features offered on the HARDI SARITOR is its astonishing AutoTerrain boom ride technology. 

As well, the SARITOR uses a wide PARALIFT boom centre with HARDI's AutoTerrain boom height and stability control, coupled with patented yaw dampening.

This intelligent, integrated, system proactively positions the boom to compensate for terrain changes, resulting in precise, tip-to-tip height control, for more accurate spraying and near-zero chance of ground strikes, even with high spraying speeds and the widest aluminium booms.

While these globally renewed sprayers increase productivity, the extra cost and losses of over or under spraying make an automatic turn and speed compensation essential. 

That is where HARDI have you covered!

Being at the forefront of innovating and revolutionising the industry, HARDI Australia offers the best spraying components and accessories fit for HARDI machines. 

Exclusive to HARDI, H-SELECT and now the GeoSelect application technologies add unrivalled precision and efficiency to the large sprayer booms. 

The H-SELECT nozzle control technology coordinates up to four different nozzles to continually maintain the required target rate across the boom and speed range.

An autonomous controller monitors each boom section’s speed against the set spray rate, then selects nozzle heads rapidly and precisely to achieve consistent spray delivery during every stage of spray operations – including starting, headland turns and turns to follow the paddock shape or avoid obstacles as shown below.

GeoSelect adds to this application process, by combining pre-scanned paddock insights with real-time metrics to enable the strategic, accurate and accountable chemical application.

The technology collates essential machine and ambient information, through pre-scanned and pre-programmed data, and makes real-time application adjustments to reduce chemical usage and cost by up to 90%.

Heath Thompson, HARDI’s Innovation Manager stated, “the technology had been the result of several years’ effort”.

Adding to the GeoSelect application, Thompson said, “The technology identifies the precise geolocation of target vegetation and records that, so you get a full recording of every activity. Best of all, testing also showed a 99.7pc-hit rate”.