Phil McLennan, left and Ross Salan Sales Manager at CadMac Wagga Wagga
THE MAN WHO INSPIRED THE K-LINE AG SPEEDBUSTER ®
and Speedtiller Powerflex ® in K-Line’s three-pronged ground renovation range. For a farming contractor, irrigation can be a complex job due to different row spacing from one farm to the next. K-Line Ag worked hard to grant Phil’s wish for a machine that was robust enough to dig irrigation furrows, yet could also be adapted to accommodate each new job. “That’s why it took a fair while to design, to be able to make it so versatile in that respect,” he says. Ten years, roughly 10,000 hectares and about 10 disc changes later, the one-off prototype that inspired the Speedbuster is still going strong. It remains one of the primary weapons in the arsenal of PR & CM McLennan, the family business Phil runs with his wife and a small team of subcontractors, to service
Customer Story - Phill McLennan
in there and bust everything up. Something solid to tackle the hard yards. And there was nothing on the market,” Phil says. “So we got onto K-Line Ag via my brother-in-law, who works for CadMac (Machinery Sales) in Wagga. Richard and Bill Larsen (K-Line Ag founders) came down, and after we talked it through, they designed a prototype machine which they gave to us to test and evaluate.” Over a period of about 18 months, Phil helped K-Line Ag to intensively develop and refine the prototype into the final product that now sits proudly alongside the Speedtiller ®
Phil McLennan might own only two K-Line Ag products, yet undoubtedly he ranks among the company’s favourite and most valued customers. That’s because the Narrandera-based farming contractor devised the idea behind the Speedbuster ® , a heavy- duty machine that’s now recognised as one of the most hard-working and durable ground preparation tools that Australian farmers can buy. “Ten years ago, we wanted to find some type of speed tiller that would do raised beds and furrows for irrigation as well. We needed a primary tillage machine to get
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