Just when you thought there wasn’t room for another player in the slurry game another one pops up. But you’ve got to be careful how you say this one. Pronounced ‘Coom’, Kumm tankers are now being imported from Germany by Norfolk based J Riley – distributors of Vervaet beet harvesters and self-propelled spreading rigs as well as Bomech slurry kit and Evers cultivator-applicators.
But with a myriad of different coloured tankers built in the UK and Ireland, why add another one to the mix? According to Rileys Kumm’s machines are top-end, top-spec application rigs designed for contractors focused on getting gallons on the ground as quickly as possible. And that claim has some credibility given the heritage of Kumm.
Fifteen years ago German contractor Michael Kumm was struggling to find a transport tanker that could match his requirements for daily work rates. Wanting something capable of shifting the maximum cubic meters an hour, he set out to build his own. Pretty quickly
