Max (heaped) load is 4.09 cu.m
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Max (heaped) load is 4.09 cu.m
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Nice nice deutz n all
That’s my personal tractor but the son/men keep using it even though it’s supposed to be my pension
- Location
- pembrokeshire
it makes me realize how things have moved on my first loader was a thirty-five with a trip bucket you should try chasing sh1t around with one of those
You were obviously well to do. Our first loader was on the back of the tractor, on the link arms, with a choice of a trip bucket or fork, both the size of a wheelbarrow!it makes me realize how things have moved on my first loader was a thirty-five with a trip bucket you should try chasing sh1t around with one of those
I got trained on one of these loaders ,after school and Saturdays mucking out calf pens and throwning into a Massey muck spreader . The fun was being let to drive the tractor to go and spread it.You were obviously well to do. Our first loader was on the back of the tractor, on the link arms, with a choice of a trip bucket or fork, both the size of a wheelbarrow!
Dian Landman
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This might be an odd question but would appreciate any feedback. Anyone price a John Deere 6140M with autoquad recently. Our prices here in South Africa has shot through the roof. I know our currency doesnt help the situation at all but was just wondering if its inline with what the rest of the world is seeing. If I work it out directly to what the exchange rate is at this moment of R22.50 to a pound the results would be.
Bought a 6175M in Oct '19 and paid R1 660 000 ZAR for it. (73777 pounds)
Bought a 6195M with command quad and a few other extras in March '20 and paid R2 280 000 ZAR for it. (101333 pounds)
Got a quote today for a 6140M for R1 750 000 ZAR. (77775 pounds) Quoted one in Oct '19 as well and it was R1 350 000 ZAR. (60000 pounds).
Is this something you guys also experiencing or is it just our currency making it impossible to afford these tractors?
Photo attached is our new inline ripper we took delivery of a few weeks back
Bought a 6175M in Oct '19 and paid R1 660 000 ZAR for it. (73777 pounds)
Bought a 6195M with command quad and a few other extras in March '20 and paid R2 280 000 ZAR for it. (101333 pounds)
Got a quote today for a 6140M for R1 750 000 ZAR. (77775 pounds) Quoted one in Oct '19 as well and it was R1 350 000 ZAR. (60000 pounds).
Is this something you guys also experiencing or is it just our currency making it impossible to afford these tractors?
Photo attached is our new inline ripper we took delivery of a few weeks back
- Location
- Le Veurde, Allier, France 03320
That is fairly common Across the board I believe!
Mouser
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- Location
- near Belfast
Big jump in less than a year. 10% jump wouldn't be unheard of though. What % has currency changed since Oct 19?
- Location
- pembrokeshire
my second loader was a rear-end loader with a plate to cover the tines so it could be used as a bucketYou were obviously well to do. Our first loader was on the back of the tractor, on the link arms, with a choice of a trip bucket or fork, both the size of a wheelbarrow!
- Location
- pembrokeshire
- Location
- Darlington
As the saying goes 'nature abhors a vacuum' people will fill whatever space is available. Workshops are the ultimate example iiircSee mums going about in Vauxhall corsas with 3 kids in back!
My wife would agree with JP1. Remember first time we went away on holiday with 1 baby for 2 nights. She completely filled the back of a discovery!
Dian Landman
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Looked about the R19 ZAR mark to 1 pound in Oct 2019. At the moment around the R22.50 ZAR to 1 pound.
In 2018, 1 ZAR would have bought you 0.083 USD, its now 0.058. So you're buying less for your money now than you were. There are some big currency fluctuations at play here, and the rand is the weakest it's been in a long time (in 2004 it was .18 USD!!). But all things being equal, machinery prices are continually going up.
Dian Landman
Member
It is a big problem definitely. Forcing us to run tractors longer hours, less machines, less people and moving some tractors back to open station units and not cabs. Wish our milkprice could rise like machinery prices.
I know its very little consolation, but the views you are farming with are extraordinarily beautiful. It at least makes an open cab slightly more bearable!
Had a dealer ring up yesterday asking if we were looking for anything. This is unusual as we never seem to gets calls anymore.
Anyway chatted that we probably ought to invest in a used tractor to make life easier as we always seems to be dropping things off tractors to use for other things but when you start hearing figures of £100k for a used 200hp with 2500 hrs on the clock, it’s frightening. So I told him we’d better employ another staff member instead. His reply was that manufacturers have pushed prices because they know irrelevant of the cost, metal is cheaper than labour. I questioned this statement and he said the machinery trade industry as a whole know that it’s getting harder and harder to employ farm workers and that if you can find them the wages are now £15/hour level so they’ve pushed the prices up because it’s an opportunity for them as farmers invest in new tech to make their lives easier due to staff costs and shortages.
chalk farming
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- Location
- North Hampshire
A new toy for us and the farmer the new Kockerling Allrounder Flatline
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