Sentry 1000

Quietly Standing Guard Over Your Crops

Discover the Sentry 1000, a high-performance frost fan designed to safeguard your crops from damaging frost. With its innovative fan design, the Sentry 1000 delivers exceptional frost protection for a variety of fruits, including vineyards, apples, kiwifruit, cherries, citrus, blueberries, and avocados. Its flexible oscillation settings and adjustable rotation speed allow for precise targeting of frost-prone areas, ensuring maximum protection for your crops. Experience the quiet operation, low fuel consumption, and minimal emissions of the Sentry 1000, making it the cleanest and most efficient frost fan on the market.

Shroud

Aerodynamic Design

An aerodynamically engineered shroud, developed by propulsion experts, maximises airflow and enhances blade performance for jet engine-like thrust.

Fan

Five Blade Impeller Fan

The TBX Sentry 1000 features a unique five-blade fan made from glass-reinforced polyamide, engineered for quieter, energy-efficient, high-volume airflow that delivers undisturbed thrust directly to crops for superior frost protection.

Engine

Direct to Power Fan

The TBX Sentry 1000 is powered by a reliable Kubota 66hp diesel engine that delivers low-emission, fuel-efficient performance with direct-drive power to the fan shaft, eliminating energy loss found in traditional gearbox systems.

Diesel Engine

Reliable Engine and DriveTrain

Reliable Kubota diesel engine driving a robust planetary gearbox provides low fuel consumption and low emissions.

Servicing

Easy Safe Servicing

Servicing and maintenance on our Sentry fan is safe and simple by lowering the fan haed to ground level. No elevating work platforms needed nor certified working at height operators required.

Rotation and Oscillation

Adjustable Rotation & Oscillation

The tower can oscillate through any angle, or continually rotate a full 360 degrees to customise your crop protection. The oscillation angle is very easily adjusted.

Airflow

Unobstructed Airflow

Unobstructed air flow away from the tower means there is no hindrance to the air momentum or direction.

Fan Features

Airstream

Straightening Vanes

Unlike conventional fans, the TBX Sentry 1000 uses static exit vanes to straighten airflow, reducing energy loss from spiral motion and delivering maximum thrust and frost protection directly to your crop.

Servicing

Hydraulic Retractable Boom

The TBX Sentry 1000 features a height-adjustable boom that lowers for easy servicing and raises only when needed, preserving your landscape view and adapting to various crop heights with hydraulics powered by a DC unit.

Controls

Intuitive Digital Controls

The user-friendly digital control panel provides live data and full machine settings at a glance, including temperature, fuel level, RPM, rotation, and more—designed for simple, intuitive operation.

Solar

Solar Backup Charging

A solar panel provides backup charging to the battery when the fan is live on standby during a frost season.

Temperature Triggered

Autostart and Shutdown

The Sentry 1000 automatically starts and shuts down based on pre-set temperature settings.

Smart Connect

This system allows you to monitor your TBX machine remotely from your computer or phone with the added ability to start, stop and switch between modes.

Specifications

360°

Rotation

The tower can oscillate through any angle, or continually rotate a full 360 degrees to customise your crop protection. The oscillation angle is very easily adjusted.

66 HP

Kubota Diesel Engine

Reliable and efficient Kubota 66hp Diesel engine with low emissions and fuel consumption. Engine delivers power direct to the fan shaft eliminating lost power through angle drive gearboxes and long drive shafts which is present on all other frost fans.

36 M/s

Airspeed

Aerodynamically designed shroud maximises the air flow capacity. This shroud design optimises blade performance, producing a turbo charge affect thrusting the air like a jet engine.

Coverage and Airspeed

Airspeed at full operating power	36 M/s (130 kmph) (80 mph)
Based on property, terrain and crop type	Up to 7ha

Engine – Kubota

Fuel	Diesel
Fuel consumption	13 Litres per hour (average)
Engine description	4 Cylinder
Fan engine power (maximum)	49 Kw (66 hp) @ 2,500 rpm
Emissions compliance	Tier 3
Cooling system	Liquid cooled engine
Ignition system	12 V electric starter with 45 amp alt.

Capacities

Hydraulic tank	5 L
Fuel tank	200L

Drive Train

Heavy duty planetary drive train

Engine power direct to fan shaft

Dimensional Data

Machine height (fan in operating position)	10142 mm
Machine height (fan in stowed position)	3070 mm
Machine width	Stowed 2300 mm / extended 810 mm
Machine length	8235 mm

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Frost Fans

“Our current crop is looking like being our best ever and we attribute much of that to having the Tow & Blow wind machine. ”

Robert Jeffries and Val Lilburne
Te Puke, NZ

Frost Fans

“During a spring which has brought many frosts causing damage to neighbouring unprotected crops, the Tow and Blow has proved its worth on my apple crop.”

John Parsons
Hawkes Bay, NZ

Frost Fans

“This is the first season that we have used the Tow and Blow. We successfully protected the orchard this spring with the most severe frost of minus three degrees at 0100hrs.”

Steve Bassett
Paengaroa, Te Puke, NZ

RELATED PRODUCTS

Fixed Fan

Sentry 800

Protect your crops from frost damage with the powerful and efficient Sentry 800. This reliable frost fan features a durable construction, quiet operation, and low fuel consumption. Ideal for vineyards, orchards, and more.

Horticulture

Sentry1000

Quietly Standing Guard Over Your Crops

Shroud

Aerodynamic Design

Fan

Five Blade Impeller Fan

Engine

Direct to Power Fan

Diesel Engine

Reliable Engine and DriveTrain

Servicing

Easy Safe Servicing

Rotation and Oscillation

Adjustable Rotation & Oscillation

Airflow

Unobstructed Airflow

Fan Features

Airstream

Straightening Vanes

Servicing

Hydraulic Retractable Boom

Controls

Intuitive Digital Controls

Solar

Solar Backup Charging

Temperature Triggered

Autostart and Shutdown

Smart Connect

Smart Connect

Specifications

360°

Rotation

66 HP

Kubota Diesel Engine

36 M/s

Airspeed

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Frost Fans

“Our current crop is looking like being our best ever and we attribute much of that to having the Tow & Blow wind machine. ”

Frost Fans

“During a spring which has brought many frosts causing damage to neighbouring unprotected crops, the Tow and Blow has proved its worth on my apple crop.”

Frost Fans

“This is the first season that we have used the Tow and Blow. We successfully protected the orchard this spring with the most severe frost of minus three degrees at 0100hrs.”

RELATED PRODUCTS

Fixed Fan

Sentry 800

Coverage

Up to 7ha

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