Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Well it all depends on how much you have got to do, if you have a neighbour with spare capacity, whether you like spanner work yourself etc etc.
If was Mr Dyson I’d be buying brand new.
If I had 1000 acres plus to do I’d buy good newish secondhand dealer serviced.
Less than that and I think we are into contractor territory or an older “enthusiasts” machine, driven by yourself.
What scares me most about newer secondhand is the combination of electronics and mice etc. Simpler older machines are getting harder to find that aren’t cracking up with metal fatigue or are worn through the elevators etc.
I’d say it’s heading down the route of new purchases being for large commercial concerns. The rest using contractors. And then there are hobbyists like myself, tinkering.
The funny thing is that a contractor should in theory be the most efficient method…..yet if you used a contractor for everything, it’s not easy to turn a profit based on commodity returns.
If you asked the average person on the street how much it would cost to harvest an acre of crop, cut it, thresh out the grain part you want, place the straw in a neat straight row and evenly spread the chaff across the full area…..I doubt many people would think it could be done for £40!
And then once they know that….I think they would be surprised that the machine doing it would cost a quarter of a million pounds to buy.