Acampo Machine Works Special Projects
New Holland T4 crawler DPF filter change
New Holland places it’s DPF filter on the T4 crawlers inside the front weight casting. Inside this enclosed area the filter housing expels an extreme amount of heat and collects fine debris. This can lead to onboard fires. The battery cables run under the radiator and heat generated by the DPF filter causes them to corrode and fail as well. The front housing is difficult to clean out by taking the time to remove all the shrouding to get to it. The DPF filter mounting kit eliminates this risk by moving the entire unit outside just to the front right of the operator. A new simple stainless steel exhaust system is added, and all the sensors are put back into position, so the tractor’s computer control runs just as well as it did before. This is a must have option especially for those growers that do vineyard preprune operations with their T4 crawler.
Drip tee guards
With all the activity surrounded the farming of winegrapes, it has put more and more strain on the drip system. Mechanical harvesting, berm sweeping, in-row cultivating, and suckering operations are giving us more and more broken tee’s in our drip systems. Simple changes in weather pull on the tees and break them as well. Not to mention our best friend the coyote. I personally have asked the tee manufacturers to add more material to the inside corners of the tees to help with this problem, but the manufactures refuse. I only assume it’s because they like us growers to buy more tees….
The new AMW Tee Guard stops all those problems. It clamps onto your hose from both directions, and hooks over the riser hose. Now pull on it as much as you can, and the tee doesn’t break. No more finding that wet spot with a stuck sprayer because the tee broke or the hose came out. They install very quickly and with the same tools as the crews use when bolting together trellis parts. The high grip U-bolts are available, but the drip guards can accept the regular 1.25 and .95 crossarm U-bolts as well.
Hydraulic control block with joystick
This is for that do-it-yourself grower that builds their own custom equipment. This block can accept one source of hydraulic oil from a tractor’s remote, or a skid steer unit. The oil can then be sent out to a motor circuit and up to 4 different cylinder functions (6 upon request). This block has a push button joystick controller to start and stop the motor circuit and push buttons for running the cylinders. It has a built-in filter element and case drain ability. No more of all those crazy hoses connecting multiple components. What a mess. This block condenses that all into one neat package. It can be used on special trimmers, hedgers, prepruners, post pounders, end post drills, harvesters, the list is endless. Please call us so we can match up one of these hydraulic blocks with your needs.
Disc guards
One of the biggest problems with discing vineyard with a tandem disc is that the front gangs always throw more dirt than the rear can take back into the row. This dirt normally gets thrown on top of the berm where the grower really does not want it. Growers will adjust the front end of the discs up or go to a smaller outer disc blade. But this just leads to not discing deep enough on the edges leaving weeds to grow. Some growers have mounted solid plates, and this does help until you get into slightly wet spring-like ground. These stationary plates plug up with weeds and dirt and need to be unclogged several times in the row. All these “fixes” make the disc’s finished profile not as nice as the grower would like it to be.
At AMW, we have a simple fix. Yes, it’s a steel plate but it hinges at the top. Holding the dirt thrown out by the outer full diameter disc pan so that the rear outer pan can throw it back in. Now you can drop your front gang into the ground at a proper depth. If you get into some slightly wet ground and you see some weed and dirt material starting to build up, the plate will open under the pressure and basically “burp” out the pending clog. The plates are weighted depending on your soil type. In hard clay the plates will get several extra pounds, where sandy soil takes little to no extra weight. They can be fitted onto any disc model.