Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
They have short memories , a week of sushine and all will be forgotton .
Machinery price discussion .
- Thread starter Beefsmith
- Start date
fieldfarmer
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And you're still paying for it even if you don't use it. ( well that's what the law inplies).
I don't think a basic new Holland or case would be a lot more from what I've heard. But a top spec jd or fendt must be 100k+ I would have thought. How many farms actually need all the extras that make them so much more expensive though? I know I don't.
Ah but if its same price if you wrote the cheque you may as well take the finance.
Interest free is just a quicker simpler way of explaining it.
- Location
- North Wales
JD and fendt With loader would be circa £90k
Massey Valtra and new Holland would be about the £80k mark
That's with a loader of around £10k in value
A lot depends on spec and tyres etc.
- Location
- Co antrim
Would the jd the same be a 120m?
warksfarmer
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Doesn’t matter how you pay for it, the interest has been put into the machine price so if you hp it you’re actually paying it twice. They shouldn’t do this but they all do.
- Location
- Co antrim
So has tractor prices actually went up since theyv started offering no interest finance?
- Location
- North Wales
If I'm honest, jd's the one I haven't priced yet only looking of adverts.
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
The farmers contract hiring have cost themselves a lump of money surely the last few years?Do you think hire costs are sheltered from the massive inflation in machinery costs?
ollie989898
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Surely some of the dealers have a tie up with the manufacturer where they work in tandem to avoid having millions of pounds worth of kit on dealer forecourts costing the dealer shed loads in interest? How can any business stand that?
warksfarmer
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It’s done many months in advance using interest rate tools.
We’ve ridden the inflation wave quite well the last 3 years, changing tractors that are very young for sometimes more than we’ve paid for them, or very little depreciation. It’s all gone to pot now with used prices through the floor and new prices through the roof, so we’ll stick with what we’ve got now in 2x decent spec very young tractors that will do us for the next 5 years+. Had we been in a hire arrangement we’d be stuck with very high payments still and have nothing to show for it at the end.
Did the same with a Defender, similar to @Ducati899
The Badger
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Extremely inaccurate quote , western , eastern and manns are . The rest of the Uk is independent dealers you’ll find
- Location
- Co antrim
Has any1 got actual quotes from say a year ago and now for same spec machines to see how much theyv went up?
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Sellars?
The Badger
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Independent
Johnnyboxer
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- Location
- Yorkshire
You’re naive if you think that
Manufacturers want it off their books, at factory gate and onto their approved dealer network & therefore the dealers carry the wholegoods liability ….pronto
Dealer stocking allows this shift and manufacturers get paid, so the factories can keep production ongoing
Spec is what pushes price up.
You can get a standard spec 5M JD for not much more than that and even a standard spec 6M for way under 90k some suggesting, but get a bit carried away ticking the extras list and the price soon rises.