Climate change reality
In just the last few months alone we’ve seen gigantic amounts of water dumped in NSW and Queensland – particularly in the Burdekin watershed – all the way up to Cairns, and down to northern New South Wales.
Moving inland, we saw the “Channel Country” under water with the loss of up to a million drowned beef cattle, and who knows how many sheep.
As the floods continue to subside, the death count grows.
In the meantime, Victoria is in drought, large sections of South Australia and southern New South Wales are suffering as well.
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All that, and city folk passively watch it on television without understanding anything like what farmers and our regional relatives go through.
Missed opportunities
Visionaries like John Bradfield, renowned for designing the Sydney Harbour Bridge, recognized the potential of Australia’s water resources in 1953.
Bradfield proposed redirecting northern rivers into the Murray Darling Basin to irrigate drought-stricken regions, and support agricultural productivities.
Yet, almost a century later, his vision remains unrealized.
Political short-termism has hindered progress.
Ideas like Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce’s 100 Dams Project never got off the ground.
Political instability derailed their implementation.
Real progress requires long-term commitment which only state and federal governments can accomplish.
Aussie Pumps’ answer
The Aussie Pumps team have a totally different attitude to most of their colleagues in the pump business.
Aussie has become the most respected business of its kind in the country, with huge organic growth over the last 30 years.
A lot of the credit goes to our Chief Engineer, John Hales.
John has done amazing things in his career, from building power stations to designing earth-moving equipment and, for the last 20 years of so, being the Chief Engineer at Aussie Pumps.
His attitude is indicated by the ethic of producing products “as if we were going to use them ourselves”.
That attitude of - the customer first - goes right through the whole ethic of Aussie Pumps and is shown in their products.
Not just fire pumps
It’s true that Aussie Pumps make the world’s best lightweight portable fire pump, with 220,000 Aussie QP205SE pumps operating not just in Australia, but around the globe.
Our product is so different to the tired old brands from the past, that consumers can tell just by seeing the outside, what the inside of the pump might be like.
We’re working on new designs all the time and are about to launch a single impeller fire pump that will perform as if it’s a twin impeller.
That new version of the Aussie Fire Chief with incredible performance is an indication of just how serious this Australian home-grown company is.
Aussie has now moved on to become Australia’s pre-eminent high pressure water blaster manufacturer in Australia, by simply making machines that are based on customer inspiration.
Dairies, for example, can rely on the stainless steel framed Aussie range of high pressure cold water blasters, available in both hot and cold configurations.
Aussie’s even got a 4,000 psi hot water machine that runs off the power of the electrical circuit of a Honda 13 hp engine.
It’s called the Heatwave.
It’s a mobile steam cleaner that can be ute-mounted or stationery in the farm wash bay.
Best of all for farmers, it’s at a good price that farmers can afford and even comes in a stainless steel frame.
Electric drive hot wash
A complete range of hot wash and steam cleaners starts with the unique Aussie Sizzler.
This is a low-cost top quality machine with a slow speed pump and motor, that runs an 1,800 psi and 80°C hot wash.
This little machine is a fraction of the price of plastic European imports and is used by a number of dairies in Australia for sterilization and elimination of bacteria.
From there the company has developed some of the best heavy duty steam cleaners in the business.
We even make one that does 4,000 psi and delivers up to 135°C steam.
Best of all the machines are bargain priced for farmers with Gippsland dairy farms able to buy direct from Aussie Pumps and get the very best package deal.
Big pumps too
Australian Pump is working hand in hand with the United Nations.
For the past five years, we’ve shipped big 6” trash pumps, powered by Deutz 80 hp diesel engines to the South Sudan to help protect Juba from the annual monsoonal floods.
They are redirecting the Nile River to protect the capital.
Aussie’s got 26 of our big machines over there now, delivering 175 million litres of water a minute.
Aussie’s no fake price policy
We’ve seen many of our competitors from the old school putting up their retail prices so their dealers can give fake discounts to unsuspecting consumers.
Aussie won’t do that.
The prices are fair and have stayed the same.
Aussie’s superior products are sold at a lower price than lesser products in terms of performance, quality and features.
That applies not only to fire pumps, transfer pumps, trash pumps, and other, but also to the company’s range of high pressure water blasters as well.
We think about the consumer first and foremost.
We’ll fight for water security for regional Australia
The positive approach
Here’s a quote from Ion Idreiss, Gallipoli veteran and famous Australian author of the 40s, 50s and 60s, who wrote after he saw what he called the millennium flood in 1956.
“Pause, and if only for a moment, try to imagine the unimaginable volume of fresh water that is rushed away to sea during these last few years alone.
"Then imagine the broken hearts that would not break, the homes we should save, the jobs we should keep, the individual and national wealth we should retain.”
Imagine what we could do with that water in drought times like now.
Australia has the resources, the expertise and the opportunity to lead the world in water management.
So why don’t we?
With the right investment and leadership anything is possible.
It’s painful to watch politicians gloating over the possibility of a 100 billion dollar agricultural year, when most of them have no idea how it was actually achieved.
They don’t get the work and the sweat that was put into it.
At Aussie, we are for regional Australia.
It’s time we did something about water security.
Visit aussiepumps.com.au for more information.
