Transporter, the new self-propelled machine from Darmec

It's called Transporter and it's an innovative self-propelled machine for harvesting fruit and vegetables with plastic bins or wooden boxes. It was designed and built by Darmec Technologies, a company based in Latina that has specialised in developing solutions for the agricultural and airport sectors for over thirty years. The self-propelled model from the company based in Lazio is ideal for use in the horticultural sector - from row crops to espaliers, from arbours to open fields - where it optimises bin handling. The bins are picked up from the ground with a fork positioned at the front of the machine, lifted by a hydraulic cylinder to the height of the platform and then moved (thanks to the movement of a motorised chain system) to the rear of the vehicle. This is where the bins and containers remain until they reach the company's delivery point. To unload the bins, all that is needed is to tilt the tipper hydraulically and move the Transporter a few metres. But the real strength of the Darmec self-propelled truck is a mechanical device that uses a tilting support surface to allow a single operator to load the product (even while driving), transport it to the unloading area and unload it in maximum safety. The latest machine from Darmec is therefore a versatile machine that adapts to the vast majority of fruit and vegetable processing plants, stable (even when fully loaded, thanks to the hydrostatic transmission and horizontal weight distribution on the platform) and agile in its movements thanks to the four steering drive wheels equipped with radial tyres that give the vehicle great fluidity of movement.

Equipped with a reversible driver's seat, the Transporter can be equipped with quick couplers to support other applications in addition to the classic loading bed. The handling capacity varies from 500/600 bins of the 650 model to 150/200 of the 325S, both with diesel and electric drive.