The Transporter is an innovative self-propelled agricultural machine designed by Darmec Technologies, an Italian company based in Latina – Lazio (Italy) – to facilitate fruits and vegetables picking up and transporting with plastic or wooden bins. This machine can be widely used for fruit and vegetable harvesting, it can operate in row, espalier, pergola and open field.
The Transporter guarantees halving harvesting costs and increasing productivity eliminating all the disadvantages related to traditional bin handling methods.
The bins are picked up from the ground through a fork positioned in front of the machine, then raised through hydraulic cylinder up to the height of loading bed, where can be moved by motorized chains towards the rear part of the machine, to be arranged in order to be finally transported to the collecting point.
To unload the containers, the operator has just to move hydraulically the fork/loading bed and move back with vehicle for few meters. The real winning card of Darmec’s Transporter is that all operations can be made only by one operator: load the bins (even while moving), to carry it to the unloading area, and to deposit it easily and safely.
It is versatile (adapts to the vast majority of fruit and vegetable plants), stable (even when fully loaded or on hilly ground, thanks to the hydrostatic transmission and the horizontal distribution of weight on the loading bed), agile in its movement (it has 4-wheel steering equipped with radial tires which give it great fluid.
Darmec Transporter is equipped with reversible driving seat and in addition to the classic loading platform, it can be equipped with quick connections to support other applications. The handling capacity of that Machine ranges between 500/600 bins a day with the biggest model TRP 650 to 150/200 bins with TRP 325S the smallest one.
