Farms and Farm Machinery

Compact worker

The Schäffer 6680T telescopic loader has rapidly become a key part of the Laurent Contractors team, based in Matamata, Waikato on New Zealand’s North Island.

Based in Germany, Schäffer has been in business for more than 60 years and produces compact wheel loaders. Here, we see first-hand how well those many years of knowledge, experience and engineering come together.

Quality

Some might say a job-specific machine like a wheel loader is hard to justify as they can be limited to certain jobs. The part that often gets looked past, though, is how much better they do a job than alternate machines and inevitably they end up being a machine an operator just cannot do without.

Some of the best machines in the agricultural market come from Germany, and the Schäffer factory is in the heart of it. It hasn’t missed a beat on the

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