New Qld machinery company Bok Implements Australia homes in on adaptability

Bok Implements Australia sales executive Keagan McIntyre talks about entering the cultivation market.

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00:00Bok was originated over in South Africa. It's already a fully fledged and funded business over

00:08there. They've got countless units, whether it be speed tillers or deep rippers, ready out in

00:13paddocks. So now we're just working on the next line. We've just tried to open up in Australia,

00:18so it's all a fresh new business. What we're doing with these speed tillers and deep rippers,

00:23mainly the deep rippers, is we try and tailor it to the hard pen. So the machine digs deeper,

00:28and it's breaking that hard crust. Look, there's a lot of implements out there that can do it. We've

00:34got a lot of competitors, but we're trying to customise it to suit, whether it be rock or sand

00:39or black soil, red soil. We're just trying to tailor each implement to work in the Australian

00:43land. But we've had some good feedback. And what we're doing is we're getting a few machines out

00:49on demo, getting people to try them and give us their feedback to see how we can better the machine

00:54to suit each client. We're just starting off small to put our feelers out and see what we can do in

00:59the Australian market, see who our competitors are, see what we can try and match, get some more

01:04ideas. We're bringing out a line of lime spreaders as well, so trailing ones. We do a lot of trailing

01:10machines. We've got adapters for these, so they can be three-point linkage, or we make an adapter

01:14for them, so they can be towed behind. So it's a very versatile machine.