Batescrew has partnered with many large corporations to deliver projects of significant scale — providing the infrastructure to move, transport or distribute water. The Batescrew team supervises and manages large-scale irrigation and pumping projects to ensure long-term reliability and productivity.
Eleven of the more notable contracts are catalogued below. Many of the units described are still operating today.
1985 · South Australia
The Murray Princess is a 61-metre paddle steamer working the Murray River out of South Australia. Two Batescrew 21/24 axial-flow pumps, diesel-driven by Caterpillar 3208s, serve as bow and stern thrusters — manoeuvring the vessel in tight river bends and at landings. Forty years on, the application is unique in our catalogue and the pumps still serve.
2002 · Queensland
Single-stage 36HC delivering against varying river conditions in remote far-north Queensland. Anti-crocodile screens fitted as a working necessity. The motor flooded in 2008 to the turbo intake; the pump returned to service after the flood receded and continued duty.
2003 – 2019
Four 42-metre-head turbine pumps installed progressively. The first went in in 2003, the next three followed in 2006, 2007 and 2019 — a long working relationship reflecting both pump performance and shared trust on subsequent expansions.
2006 · Parramatta NSW
A 7SE 8 V P/L D/C electric pumpset for fuel-blending duty: E10 is mixed at 160 m pressure before going into tankers. EXE motor and pump delivering 12 L/sec at 168 m head from a 37 kW drive.
2006 · Tasmania
Two 14-inch column-bore pumps, single-stage HCR-180 coupled, installed at a 35-degree angle in vertical application. Stainless mesh strainer on the inlet. Marine and aquaculture installations carry harsher salt-spray and biofoul issues than freshwater duty — the materials list is specified accordingly.
2007 · Waranga Basin
A reference project still cited in our brochures: twelve 24/30 1st-stage axial-flow pumps, A O/L direct-coupled electric, 1,600 L/sec each. Both motors and slide-rails were designed and installed in-house. The job ran eleven weeks from order to commissioning.
2009 · Manly Hydraulics Lab
Two 4-stage axial-flow centrifugal pumps with 18HC impellers, insulated-bearing motors, 280 kW. Pump and pipework designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned for the Murray–Darling Basin Authority meter testing laboratory. A pump used to test pumps.
2011 (1978 site) · NSW
A trout-farm lift station that has been pumping continuously, twenty-four hours a day, since 1978 — across multiple Batescrew installations on the same site. The most recent expansion in 2011 added three Batescrew 21/30 1st-vertical pumps. Total of four pumps lifting into the farm.
2012 · Hattah VIC
A 24/30 2-stage electric set with seven motors — six at 300 kW and one at 350 kW — foot-mounted in angle application for the Hattah environmental works. A bigger drive arrangement than the standard 24/30 envelope.
2018 · Rockhampton QLD
Pumping raw sea water demands the higher of our stainless grades. Full 316L stainless construction, water-lubricated, electric direct-coupled Batescrew 21/30 1st Vertical. Salt-water pumping is unforgiving — the materials list is the critical specification.
2018 · Boundary Bend VIC
An almond grower running pumps from another manufacturer with a poor application design — single-season mean-time-between-failures. Replacement Batescrew pumps have so far run to 2+ seasons MTBF, and the conversion programme has continued to other pumps on the same site.
ongoing · Kununurra WA
Lift-pump installations for Kimberly Agriculture out of Kununurra, Western Australia. A remote-location job with two of six pumps installed to date — the kind of programme where each unit is shipped, installed and commissioned in series rather than as a single delivery.
Tender specifications, design calculations and a fixed quotation — all from the Tocumwal factory.
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