When the going gets tough

The first Bateman was designed by my Father to help him continue spraying when faced with difficult conditions. Lately, we’ve experienced 4 seasons in one day, everyone has been out spraying at the same time from Spring Maize to Potatoes. Because our machines travel so well on soft ground, it’s been good to hear from customers who, in spite of mother nature’s best efforts, were able to travel their fields whilst others couldn’t.

From the very beginning, we’ve designed our machines to leave a small footprint on the land. The optimum weight/tyre ratio distribution of a Bateman is now further enhanced by developments in tyre technology. We’re working closely with customers to specify the right tyre for their individual needs, one such customer is Turney’s Limited, you can read their story here.

We invest heavily in maintaining healthy stocks of parts for all eras of Bateman models. Keeping the wheels turning for our customers is paramount, and here we explain why our parts back up is second to none.

You need a reliable machine to tow an on-call lifeboat. During the late 1990s, we designed and built a specialist towing vehicle for Ryde Inshore Rescue, an independent lifeboat station on the Isle of Wight. Towing the boat and crew out to sea is now the duty of a modified RB15. We caught up with the engineering team and station crew to learn more.

There’s a Bateman spraying fields in Tasmania. Harvest Moon produce over 70,000 tons of vegetables a year, the job of protecting them is the duty of an RB35, sold by our new Tasmanian dealer Agri Machinery.

Our Team Bateman demonstration crew were on farms in February putting our latest RB35 demonstrator through its paces. Operators were impressed by how well it performed across their ground. Throughout the rest of the year, we’ll be visiting all parts of the UK, if you’d like to experience our machine on your ground please get in touch.

Best wishes for the remainder of the season.

Jason Bateman
CEO
R. J. Bateman Engineering