Definitely when a lad in daddies tractor will work for £20 an hour and a bag of scampi fries
Dealer having a laugh
- Thread starter Finn farmer
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Finn farmer
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No contractors here. We do have another tractor to take out the less "paying" jobs.
Finn farmer
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Would ve great to have someone like that. We'll charge 65€+vat/h.
glasshouse
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- lothians
It used to be possible to run 160hp tractors for under £5/hr before 2010
hintonroadhero
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- Waikato, NZ
Nonsense.....the depreciation alone would be more than that !!!!!
Sold an 8 year old 100hp Renault Ceres in 2010 that had 5000 hours that I'd put on it from new. Bought for £18k, sold for £12k.
Dealer serviced at correct intervals total cost £6500 parts and labour, tyres £2400, gearbox repair (tractor split) including new main and PTO clutch £3500, battery £70, tandem oil pump £140.
Total cost of ownership £18500, or £3.70 per hour.
glasshouse
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- lothians
hintonroadhero
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- Waikato, NZ
with the numbers you quote that means depreciation is 1.20+R&M is 1.30+insurance is 0.60+interest on capital(money earned if 18k put in savings account is 1.90 so total...4.00 so we concur..for a 100hp tractor... glasshouse talking about a 160hp tractor..for 1 pound a hour more than a 100hp unit..yeah right.
glasshouse
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I was only talking about depreciation.
You can argue the toss over a pound either way but it was still a fraction of todays money.
I did a few very good deals at £3/h
hintonroadhero
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You weren't only talking about depreciation..you also included R&M costs?.....I'm not arguing the toss. I concurred/agreed with your numbers?......what I questioned was the ability to RUN 160hp tractors for a fiver an hour..even before 2010?
glasshouse
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Tractors here were a whole lot cheaper than in nz
The tm range never gave much trouble, unlike the new ones
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- Sweden
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I not sure how it work, but i buy a Mf 7620 i Norway and it was easy to import to Sweden. So i think for you it must be easy to buy in Sweden, we are you both in EU. And with you have euro and swedish crown is low, so you can do good buy here i think. Then you live long north up and I can think you have a lot of snow and cold now, and nearly evry year it must be hard. I live in the west Sweden but is terrible when is be - 20 here but for you is evry day temp, so all respect from meWe live under 2 hours away from Haparanda, maybe it's time to start to look to the other side of the border.
hintonroadhero
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Why do you think that tractors were a lot cheaper than NZ. Between 2002 and 2015 I was directly involved in bringing more than 15,000 tractors from the UK to NZ and Australia...I am afraid your comment is incorrect!
glasshouse
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- lothians
What?
You did that to lose money?
hintonroadhero
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- Waikato, NZ
What makes you think we lost money?
glasshouse
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- lothians
If tractors were cheaper in nz why would you ship them there?
And by the way i export machinery to nz too
d williams
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Exchange rate???
hintonroadhero
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We imported New, British built tractors...spec for spec they were sold to end users at less money than those being sold in the UK....there were a number of reasons....including exchange rates, purchasing power and warranty consideration and specialised freight deals
glasshouse
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I wasnt talking about new tractors
Thats a totally different ballgame