DRIVING IMPRESSION: Is there really room in the market for another slurry tanker maker, especially at the top end of the pricing ladder? We take a look at Kumm’s KTR 20.5 which is currently doing a demo tour in Great Britain.
Just when you thought there wasn’t room for another player in the slurry game another one pops up. But you’ve got to be careful how you say this one. Pronounced ‘Coom’, Kumm tankers are now being imported from Germany by Norfolk based J Riley – distributors of Vervaet beet harvesters and self-propelled spreading rigs as well as Bomech slurry kit and Evers cultivator-applicators.
But with a myriad of different coloured tankers built in the UK and Ireland, why add another one to the mix? According to Rileys Kumm’s machines are top-end, top-spec application rigs designed for contractors focused on getting gallons on the ground as quickly as possible. And that claim has some credibility given the heritage of Kumm.
Fifteen years ago German contractor Michael Kumm was struggling to find a transport tanker that could match his requirements for daily work rates. Wanting something capable of shifting the maximum cubic meters an hour, he set out to build his own. Pretty quickly word got round and other contractors started asking him to build rigs for them – Kumm Technik was born.
Today the company builds an impressive line-up of both road-going transport tankers and specialist applicator set-ups. In addition to fifth-wheel semis and dedicated tractor-drawn transport tankers, on the spreading side the range runs from 14m3 single axle tankers right up to 31m3 tri-axles. The first machine to cross the North Sea is the midrange tandem axle 20.5m3 KTR – we gave it the once over while on evaluation with Dorset contractors A&R Fraser.
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