Northern Ireland-based company SlurryKat is to introduce a new trailing shoe injector for the 2018 slurry spreading season.

This has been developed on the back of the original trailing shoe which was introduced first in 2008. They have developed an injector that can “piggy back” carry a 1,000m hose reeler.

Up to now it was only possible to carry a hose reeler like this on a dribble bar system. This has only been made possible by also introducing a completely new 1,000m Bak Pak hose reeler. It is now possible, for the first time, to work the new trailing shoe and Bak Pak as a complete unit.

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The unit features flip-up shoes, meaning that the arms of the tractor or tanker do not need to be raised at headland turns or when crossing the umbilical pipeline. The shoes fold up hydraulically with control from the tractor seat prior to reconnection with the Bak Pak or when leaving the field after the tanker is emptied.

The company’s CEO, Garth Cairns, said: “We have been working on these new products for some time now to bring something fresh and exciting to the slurry equipment market. We are very pleased with the performance and feedback on the new trailing shoe and Bak Pak. We hope they can be even more successful than the previous generation of both the trailing shoe and Bak Pak that have been absolutely phenomenal for us over the last 10 years, exceeding global sales projections year on year. These new products clearly set us apart in the market and we have more innovations to reveal in 2018.”

The unit can be easily mounted to any tanker and then taken off and used with the Bak Pak hose reeler on the SlurryKat umbilical system.

Working widths presently start at 7.5m and 10m, with plans to grow the range in 2018, offering 12m also. The new injector goes on sale in January 2018.