13t 360 hire ?

Jack Russell

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Arable Farmer
Location
Holderness
We hire from a firm in hull for about £275 a week for a newish 13 tonne machine with a selection of buckets. We use it for heaping/composting FYM so it gets sat on top of the muck. They are happy so long as it's cleaned down after. The haulage though is £150 each way (15-20 miles each way) so if you don't have your own low loader it makes it a bit dear.
 

JPM

Member
Mainline. About £400/week.

But we bought a 6000hr JS130 for £15k as we seemed to have a 360 here either on hire or a machine with a driver most of the time so it paid to buy one. There's a few of them out there so have a look in plant trader.

Where on earth did u find a js130 at that money?[emoji23] I'm on the look out for one but they seem to be about £25k for them hours
 
Location
Suffolk
Round here plenty of 13tonners are available on self drive from £80-100 a day with discount for longer period from a lot of plant/agri contractors therefore no need to bother with the large plant hire firms which woukd have a fit if you're loading muck!!!

They're available with driver and diesel for around the £30 mark. With the right operator they're phenomenal at moving stuff!! Had three days work lined up last summer inlcuding site leveling, digging foundations, trench for ducting, ditching a stretch, tidying a track up and levelling all the spoil carried away. Half way through day 2 we were nearly finished and if I carted atleast three hundred tonnes of soil away from him, plus carted crushed conc and sub-base back afterwards. Said goodbye to machine at the end of day 2 and that was after I did a coupke of other jobs myself with it!!!!
I went to help some friends in Lampeter a while ago. We used a local firm to do all the ground-work and they did a fantastic job. They were a busy crew and we had more work for them to do but they couldn't spare the time. They recommended another one-man-band with a similar but old machine who duly turned up and did one days work whereapon his machine promptly blew a head gasket......I had another weeks work to finish. Three weeks later the broken machine was finally running. I'd moved home by then and the ground-work was never finished properly.:banghead:
I believe it is a false economy to hire those machines which only do the odd days work on a farm. They aren't reliable at all. I can honestly say that if my once new & shiny TB175 was given a months solid work I couldn't guarantee not having a brakedown.
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I went to help some friends in Lampeter a while ago. We used a local firm to do all the ground-work and they did a fantastic job. They were a busy crew and we had more work for them to do but they couldn't spare the time. They recommended another one-man-band with a similar but old machine who duly turned up and did one days work whereapon his machine promptly blew a head gasket......I had another weeks work to finish. Three weeks later the broken machine was finally running. I'd moved home by then and the ground-work was never finished properly.:banghead:
I believe it is a false economy to hire those machines which only do the odd days work on a farm. They aren't reliable at all. I can honestly say that if my once new & shiny TB175 was given a months solid work I couldn't guarantee not having a brakedown.
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Roger moore?
 

sleepy

Member
Location
Devon, UK
Unles the hire co 'know' you ie, you have had an account for quite a while they won't entertain hiring anything above 3.5 tons. Gap Norwich are one such co. Luckily I have my own machine and over the years it has certainly paid for itself.
I'd just phone around.

You can also use email to ask, but some co's don't reply to these:LOL: :banghead::banghead::banghead:
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Not in my experience, most hire firms don't give a monkeys and would hire you their granny if you paid upfront.
 
Where on earth did u find a js130 at that money?[emoji23] I'm on the look out for one but they seem to be about £25k for them hours

It was from a trader around Warwick area iirc. Can't think of their name but it was from an advert in plant trader. They weren't ag dealers though.

And within the last week I've seen one advertised on Facebook for £17.5k with 6300hrs on it.
 

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