Rocky Lamattina

"15,000 Hours in 10 Years and Still Going Strong'

By any yardstick, Rocky Lamattina & Sons is an impressive carrot producing organisation. The family company grows carrots at two separate locations and supplies up to 600 tonnes of carrots to customers 52 weeks of the year.

Of course the carrot growing process begins out in the fields and at their Wemen site in North-West Victoria, the operation has 37 centre pivot irrigators in place. While a series of electric pumps deliver water to these huge water systems, Yanmar 4TNE series diesel engines are located on site at each pump, driving the hydraulic system that turns the irrigator wheels.

“We have stuck with the Yanmar 4TNE engines as they never give us any trouble,” John Lamattina said. “We use Yanmar diesel engines right across all of the properties where we have a total of 62 Yanmar powered irrigators in operation.”

The Yanmar diesel engine with the most number of hours up is situated at Wemen. This engine has 15,000 hours logged in 10 years of operation… and it is still as reliable as ever and still going as strong as the day it was installed.


Yanmar delivers for me.