£339.38 for a Kverneland.....(rant).....

[SRRC]

plough shock absorber for the depth wheel!
It's 350mm long with a 20mm shaft, all it does is stop the depth wheel wacking down when you turn it over, hardly very technical. It looks like a dumpy ram without any hose connections.
A proper hydraulic ram about the same size would be about £80 so where does the price come from?

As usual I'm caught by the g**lies because I need it tomorrow and don't have time to search about.

While I'm on this sort of thing, why does my JD dealer want about £50 to order something he hasn't got on his shelf? I can order something from Amazon and it'll be here tomorrow without bunging them £50 so why can't JD do it too?
They can't have it both ways.....save by having nothing in stock and then charge me £50 to get it.

 

[Flyer]

Because the farmer will take 4-6 months to pay for it, and then after all that he will want a bit of discount or decide not to pay for it at all.

 

[Partstech]

What's the additional £50 for ? Next day normal carriage from Kverneland is about a tenner !

 

[Chae1]

It's bloody annoying when it doesn't work though and depth wheel doesn't reset when you trip plough. Too tight to replace one here, must have wasted hours tripping plough several times to get wheel to go down again. False economy.

 

[Sandy]

plough shock absorber for the depth wheel!
It's 350mm long with a 20mm shaft, all it does is stop the depth wheel wacking down when you turn it over, hardly very technical. It looks like a dumpy ram without any hose connections.
A proper hydraulic ram about the same size would be about £80 so where does the price come from?

As usual I'm caught by the g**lies because I need it tomorrow and don't have time to search about.

While I'm on this sort of thing, why does my JD dealer want about £50 to order something he hasn't got on his shelf? I can order something from Amazon and it'll be here tomorrow without bunging them £50 so why can't JD do it too?
They can't have it both ways.....save by having nothing in stock and then charge me £50 to get it.

Is that the 1 with the oil in it or the spring

 

[Timbo1080]

I've got an overum DX with XL boards on and hydraulic headstock that I haven't use for years, that you're welcome to borrow, if you fancy a trip to near Yeovil....

 

[Tarw Coch]

plough shock absorber for the depth wheel!
It's 350mm long with a 20mm shaft, all it does is stop the depth wheel wacking down when you turn it over, hardly very technical. It looks like a dumpy ram without any hose connections.
A proper hydraulic ram about the same size would be about £80 so where does the price come from?

As usual I'm caught by the g**lies because I need it tomorrow and don't have time to search about.

While I'm on this sort of thing, why does my JD dealer want about £50 to order something he hasn't got on his shelf? I can order something from Amazon and it'll be here tomorrow without bunging them £50 so why can't JD do it too?
They can't have it both ways.....save by having nothing in stock and then charge me £50 to get it.

A very similar damper on vogel&noot, don't know price or if it would fit though.

 

[Kevtherev]

plough shock absorber for the depth wheel!
It's 350mm long with a 20mm shaft, all it does is stop the depth wheel wacking down when you turn it over, hardly very technical. It looks like a dumpy ram without any hose connections.
A proper hydraulic ram about the same size would be about £80 so where does the price come from?

As usual I'm caught by the g**lies because I need it tomorrow and don't have time to search about.

While I'm on this sort of thing, why does my JD dealer want about £50 to order something he hasn't got on his shelf? I can order something from Amazon and it'll be here tomorrow without bunging them £50 so why can't JD do it too?
They can't have it both ways.....save by having nothing in stock and then charge me £50 to get it.

Have you tried DUNNS Ploughs for a S/H
Or Westlake ploughs?
Just a thought.

 

[John 1594]

And people say KV are cheap to run......

Wonder what @Tractor_dealer would charge for said part????

incidently, the oil filled damper on our dowdeswell died a death last season, to fix it cost me about a quid, i simply removed the oil filler plug, drilled and tapped an M6 thread in it, and installed a grease nipple

now every time i grease the plough i give the damper a couple of pumps, and that charges it back up again!

 

[Tractor_dealer]

plough shock absorber for the depth wheel!
It's 350mm long with a 20mm shaft, all it does is stop the depth wheel wacking down when you turn it over, hardly very technical. It looks like a dumpy ram without any hose connections.
A proper hydraulic ram about the same size would be about £80 so where does the price come from?

As usual I'm caught by the g**lies because I need it tomorrow and don't have time to search about.

While I'm on this sort of thing, why does my JD dealer want about £50 to order something he hasn't got on his shelf? I can order something from Amazon and it'll be here tomorrow without bunging them £50 so why can't JD do it too?
They can't have it both ways.....save by having nothing in stock and then charge me £50 to get it.

Part no ?

 

[Tractor_dealer]

And people say KV are cheap to run......

Wonder what @Tractor_dealer would charge for said part????

incidently, the oil filled damper on our dowdeswell died a death last season, to fix it cost me about a quid, i simply removed the oil filler plug, drilled and tapped an M6 thread in it, and installed a grease nipple

now every time i grease the plough i give the damper a couple of pumps, and that charges it back up again!

That's probably why dowdswell are no longer with us

 

[mushnt grummmble]

And people say KV are cheap to run......

Wonder what @Tractor_dealer would charge for said part????

incidently, the oil filled damper on our dowdeswell died a death last season, to fix it cost me about a quid, i simply removed the oil filler plug, drilled and tapped an M6 thread in it, and installed a grease nipple

now every time i grease the plough i give the damper a couple of pumps, and that charges it back up again!

Was going to say i feel a bodge coming along

 

[John 1594]

Was going to say i feel a bodge coming along

Less a bodge, more a field modification....

 

[DrWazzock]

And people say KV are cheap to run......

Wonder what @Tractor_dealer would charge for said part????

incidently, the oil filled damper on our dowdeswell died a death last season, to fix it cost me about a quid, i simply removed the oil filler plug, drilled and tapped an M6 thread in it, and installed a grease nipple

now every time i grease the plough i give the damper a couple of pumps, and that charges it back up again!

That's what we did. it cured the damper which would have been mega bucks to replace.

Can't understand why these dampers are so expensive across a range of ploughs. I think the dowdeswell damper was going to be hundreds of quid. In the end though, the bushing on that great lumbering heavy old tail wheel got sloppy and it wouldn't reset properly so sold that DP7 and just carried on with the DP8 which is lighter and kinder on the tractor.

 

[John 1594]

That's probably why dowdswell are no longer with us

That's probably why dowdswell are no longer with us

and also why KV are owned by kubota....

 

[John 1594]

That's what we did. it cured the damper which would have been mega bucks to replace.

Can't understand why these dampers are so expensive across a range of ploughs. I think the dowdeswell damper was going to be hundreds of quid. In the end though, the bushing on that great lumbering heavy old tail wheel got sloppy and it wouldn't reset properly so sold that DP7 and just carried on with the DP8 which is lighter and kinder on the tractor.

DP8 is nice plough, no damper on those depth wheels, just free swinging, but DP100S on DDs is the dogs danglies, heavier than the 8, but lighter than the 7, with a better depth wheel, parrelel linkage for the front furrow

wont ever buy another plough now we got the DP100 thats for sure

 

[DrWazzock]

DP8 is nice plough, no damper on those depth wheels, just free swinging, but DP100S on DDs is the dogs danglies, heavier than the 8, but lighter than the 7, with a better depth wheel, parrelel linkage for the front furrow

wont ever buy another plough now we got the DP100 thats for sure

They got there in the end. Especially with the parallel linkage. Excellent plough.

 

[Farma Parma]

Spare Parts in a lot of cases annoy us all id say.
Even more so when you can see your just getting ripped off several times over...
Surely there must be a copy part for this KV Strut ???

 

[John 1594]

Spare Parts in a lot of cases annoy us all id say.
Even more so when you can see your just getting ripped off several times over...
Surely there must be a copy part for this KV Strut ???

if i think im getting ripped off i usually end up making the part myself...it may cost my time, but the satisfaction of knowing you havent payed through your nose more than makes up for it

 

[Farma Parma]

Shin/Breast Plate whatever you call it on a KV No.28 boards is around £19 before discount yet the standard skimmer point is around £10 why is that ???? all OEM parts must be similar metal in both, Shin part doesnt last v long either as we all know coz stupid lower nut wheres off in no time...