SALE PRICES on Turfmaker 380 starting as low as $5,950.00
First Time Buyers - Model 380 - less than $6,000
Know the differences in hydroseeder and hydromulcher equipment before 
spending thousands of dollars on equipment. A good hydroseeder can mix and apply any kind of mulch, thick or thin, providing you with the flexibility to quickly seed a pasture with a soupy mixture or deliver sod quality results with thicker wood based products. A re-circulation or ‘jet agitation’ machine will not mix even moderately thick slurries limiting your opportunities to low budget jobs. Don’t be mislead that a larger tank and engine is the answer. There is no substitute for a machine designed to efficiently mix and pump good mulch materials at appropriate rates. The purchase of a cheap hydroseeder machine can be a disaster for a new contractor intending to enter the business of planting quality grass on new lawns and fine landscapes. Read more...
Design Differences Improve Productivity
» Low-profile loading platforms minimize user fatigue caused by lifting heavy bags of mulch into high loading chutes common on most hydroseeder machines.
» A Clear Water Flush system pushes the heavy mulch out of the hose allowing the hose to drain completely. 
This original TurfMaker design makes the hose light weight, easy to handle and store.
» Powerful direct drive mechanical agitation allows the operator to load and mix the thickest wood mulch slurries very quickly without fear of jamming or clogging.
» Positive displacement pumps require significantly less horse power than centrifugal pumps and are capable of pumping thick wood mulch slurries through long hoses without loss of pressure at the end of the hose.
» Double your capacity and maximize productivity by adding a self filling system. When a suitable water source is not nearby, an auxiliary water tank and our filling system prevents loss of time retrieving water from a distant source.
» Control the hose pressure independent of the engine speed and agitator mixing speed with a by-pass pressure control value that allows the hydroseeder to re-circulate excess materials back into the tank. This allows the user at the end of 250’ hose to precisely spray around a flowerbed with a low-pressure stream or blast the mix an additional 75’ at high pressure.
» Simplicity of Design and Maintenance. There are no clutches or hydraulic systems to fail, just tensioned V-belts that operate like most riding lawnmowers. The pump is incredibly simple and easy to service, yet it is more efficient and requires significantly less horsepower than centrifugal pumps found on most other machines. The agitator is totally independent from the pumping engagement. This allows the operator to turn the agitator or the pump on and off independent of each other.
TurfMaker 380 Performance Test
We tested the limits of the Base Configuration on our TurfMaker 380...
Mechanical Agitation Hydroseeder vs. Jet Agitation
Soupy Mixes are needed on dry powdery soils and on sandy soils. Jet agitation hydroseeder machines can only make soupy mixes. Although they are slow, jet agitation machines can spray a soupy mix of paper mulch onto loose soil and grow a nice lawn some of the time. Imagine what a TurfMaker® with mechanical agitation can do with soupy mixes.
Thicker Slurries are needed on hard soils and wet soils. Soupy mixes run when applied to hard or wet soils. Inadequate mulch applications are an invitation to washouts and poor germination. It is not possible to make thick slurries with jet agitation hydroseeder machines. Handling thicker slurries are easy with mechanical agitation. Mechanical agitation is standard on all TurfMaker® machines.
Wood Fiber Mulch is frequently specified by landscape architects and governmental agencies. It is not practical to use 100% wood mulch in any jet agitation hydroseeder machine. It will clog. Wood fiber mulch is easy with a TurfMaker®.
Bonded Fiber Matrix products are special wood mulch products that must be mixed and applied more thickly than regular wood mulch applications. These products cannot be used in any jet agitation hydroseeder machine as specified by the mulch manufacturer. Think TurfMaker®!
Hydro-Sprigging is becoming more widely used to plant vegetative grasses with substantially less costs than laying solid sod. The chemistry and technology are emerging making hydrosprigging a highly reliable way to plant new grasses. Some grasses can be planted by using living pieces of grass instead of seed in the tank of a TurfMaker®.
A TurfMaker® with mechanical agitation can do soupy mixes, thicker slurries, wood fiber mulch, bonded fiber matrix products, and even hydro-sprigging.
There are no limitations with a TurfMaker® hydroseeder