RS Thai TractorTHE POWER BASIS FORALL YOUR NEEDS!

The RS Thai Tractor has proven to be an excellent tractor which can be easily maintained at village level. Specifically designed with Africa’s farmers and working conditions in mind, this amazingly powerful tractor offers simplicity combined with an excellent quality and competitive pricing. All of Rumptstad’s implements and equipments have been designed on the RS Thai tractor. A simple very tough, single cylinder Chinese built diesel engine of 10 to 12 HP is the power source. This type of engine is already widely used in Africa for rice and maize mills. Spare parts are relatively easy to obtain.

The tractor is equipped with a PTO (Power Take-Of) to drive the Rumptstad implements as the RS Power Hoe and the RS Power Harrow.

The RS Thai tractor has an amazing capacity and can be used the whole year round for water pumping, transportation, crop processing, electricity generation, welding, etc. Rumptstad offers an exciting range of equipments

to go with this workhorse.

The RS Thai tractor has many great advantages:

- It seldom has a breakdown giving it a great capacity- Affordable to even smallholder farmers- Easily and cheaply maintained- Small enough to go anywhere even without

roads- Provides income to any people as it can be used YEAR ROUND- Great transportation capacity- Is ready for the use of bio fuels like pure vegetable oil - State Governments can reach all farmers in all LGA’s in a short time- Leasing to agricultural service providers becomes a reality

Features:- Simple- Sturdy- Low Maintenance- High Performance- Easy to operate- Standard Hitchpoint- Vast range of crop appropriate

implements- Fuel efficient for use with

- diesel- vegetable oil- biodiesel

- No need for good roads- Ideal for farmgate transports- Can work in ‘dirty’ farms- Perfect for dry land farming- Perfect for wet land farming

Power Basis for:- Land Tillage- Seedbed Preparation- Sowing / Planting- Ridging- Harvesting- Transport- Processing- Electricity- Water Pumping

Solutions for all crops:- Irrigated Rice- Upland Rice- Floodplain Rice- Maize- Groundnut- Cassava- Millet, Sorghum- Please contact us for other crop

applications

Basic Implements:

RS Power HoeThe Rumptstad Power Hoe is a unique soil tillage implement which has been developed specifically for the African soils and working conditions.

RS Power HarrowThe shaking movement of the double row of tines fragments all clods left behind by the RS Power Hoe and leaves a fine, smooth and perfect seed bed.

RS Rice Seed DrillRice yields depend on the farmer's capability to suppress weeds. Keeping this in mind, we have developed a Rice Seed Drill with a working width of 1.50m with 6 seed pipes, drilling rice seeds at an inter row distance of 18 to 20 cm.

RS Precision PlanterFor Africa's major crops in upland farming Rumptstad has developed a precision planter. As an option the planter can be equipped with a (dry) fertiliser application attachment.

RS TrailerThe RS Trailer has also been designed with the African farming conditions in mind. The large platform permits transportation of high volume/low weight crops and can also be used to load several implements at the same time.

Other RUMPTSTAD implements for the RS Thai Tractor:

RS Power RidgerRS RidgerRS Windrower Power MowerRS Groundnut ShellerRS Cassava LifterRS Maize ShellerRS Ricefan

RS Archimedes Water PumpRS Centrifugal Water PumpRS GrainfanRS Spot WeederRS Power WeederRS GensetRS Oil Expeller

RS Power Hoe RS Power Harrow RS Rice Seed Drill RS Precision Planter

RS TrailerRS Ricefan

ThresherRS Round-up Spot applicator for rice

RS Round-up applicator for row

crops

RS Power SlasherRS Land Clearing

SystemRS Rice Huller

Mechanisation solution for irrigated rice with puddling and transplantingRUMPTSTAD B.V. offers African farmers the perfect mechanisation package for rice grown under irrigation with puddling and transplanting. The mechanisation solution we present is based on the RS Thai tractor, the ideal power platform for irrigated rice cultivation. Appropriate technology at its best.

Our mechanisation package consists of high quality but low cost equipment with a high field capacity, reducing labour costs to a minimum. Our package covers all operations from soil tillage, puddling, levelling, harvesting till transportation and offers a true complete solution to all your mechanisation needs in irrigated and transplanted rice.

Irrigated rice cultivationWe at Rumptstad know that high rice yields do not only depend on the choice of variety and use of fertilisers. High rice yields are only possible if you as farmer are capable of suppressing weeds. And to suppress weeds in transplanted irrigated rice you must be capable of levelling your land to effectively control the layer of water in your rice fields. The young rice seedlings transplanted in a layer of water will survive and thrive, weeds do not.

Rumptstad is the ONE STOP manufacturer who can provide you with a COMPLETE set of implements to do the job:

Ploughing after pre-irrigating your land: RS Power HoeWith the RS Power Hoe you get a perfect mixing of your soil with plant residues while your soil is turned over, aerated and weeds are uprooted, left on top of the tilled soil for the farmer to collect and burn. The RS Power Hoe is the first important step in suppressing weeds! The RS Power Hoe has no problem incorporating crop residues into the soil at an amazing capacity for its small size. With only 10 to 12 HP you can plough one acre in just a couple of hours!

Puddling: RS PuddlerDirectly after tilling the soil with the RS Power Hoe the farmer can again pre-irrigate his land and this time with sufficient water to get a 5 to 10 cm layer of water on it. The RS Thai Tractor is fitted with the steel wheels and can work without any problem in the water! Where no other tractor can go the RS Thai Tractor goes without any hesitation! The RS Puddler is essential to turn the soil of the rice field into a very fluid mud.

Levelling: RS Levelling BoardThe liquid mud made with the RS Puddler needs to be “moved” around the rice field for which operation we propose the RS Levelling Board. The liquefied mud, as all liquids will do, will seek a horizontal plane and by the action of moving around with the levelling board the land is levelled. Simple but very effective implements.

TransplantingTransplanting can be done by hand with labour. Labour will effectively work under any condition, a transplanting machine has, as yet, not been developed which will work under all circumstances.

WeedingThe good soil tillage effected with the RS Power Hoe and the perfect levelling of the rice field with the RS Puddler and RS Levelling Board will allow the farmers to suppress all weeds by controlling water levels in their rice fields within a range of a couple of centimetres.

Irrigation: RS Archimedes Pump and RS Centrifugal PumpIn those cases where irrigation by gravity is unavailable, Rumptstad offers to its customers, two different types of water pumps. The first pump, the RS Archimedes Pump is a low-pressure head/ high volume pump, which can pump vast quantities of irrigation water over short distances and with low lifting capacity (pressure head). The RS Archimedes Pump is only employed where the water only needs to be lifted a couple of meters, but where high volumes are called for (large acreages).

The RS Centrifugal Pump is used where relatively small volumes of water need to be pumped over a longer distance and over a greater height. The RS Centrifugal Pump is capable of lifting water from a depth of max 5 meters on the suction side and lifts the water to a maximum of 30 meters and still pumps a volume of 40,000 litres of water per hour.

Rumptstad advises to use the RS Archimedes Pump for the irrigation of relatively large rice fields and to use the RS Centrifugal Pump when smaller area’s need water, for instance for vegetables, tomatoes, onions and any other high value horticultural crop. Both pumps are driven by V-belt from the main pulley of the diesel engine of the RS Thai Tractor and are mounted on

their own frames.

Harvesting: RS Windrower Power Mower and RS RicefanRumptstad proposes two labour-saving implements to bring in the harvest in time. The first operation is to cut the rice and put the rice haulms into windrows for further drying. The RS Windrower Power Mower will do this job quickly and with minimum efforts. The power mower is coupled to the RS

Thai Tractor and drive by its diesel engine.

Once the rice haulms in the windrows have sufficiently dried, the farmers will build threshing heaps with labour in the field. The next operations, threshing and winnowing will be done with the RS Ricefan thresher that has a capacity of 800 kg of paddy per hour. The RS Ricefan has its own 5 HP petrol engine but can also be powered by the RS Thai tractor diesel engine in case of need. After threshing, additional manual winnowing will clean the rice sufficiently for transportation to the villages.

Transportation: RS TrailerThe RS Thai Tractor can be delivered with a 2.5 tons trailer. Farmers can transport their paddy rice from the field to the village without the backbreaking work of carrying it by head. The RS Thai Tractor either with its rubber tyres or with its steel wheels fixed is capable of travelling over any road or trail. The RS Thai Tractor can even pass small creeks if the water level is not higher than the underside of the engine frame (35 cm) and if the riverbed is firm enough.

For more information please contact Krispijn: +316 18 64 37 05