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5000ac Farm won’t buy new
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<blockquote data-quote="Ali_Maxxum" data-source="post: 5302218" data-attributes="member: 12293"><p>All our kit is bought new nowadays, due to amount of work we are doing now, still trying to work out some sort of 'model' however, I'm not sure we'll ever get to one. Contracting and kit is a vicious cycle, as soon as one thing is paid for something else is worn out and needs changing or upgrading.</p><p></p><p>As a growing business as well we're still on the way to getting to where we will start to level out if that makes any sense, get as big as we think we will get and size of kit will get as big as it will get. Was looking at changing our 2 main tractors every 6 years, which isn't going to happen now thanks to changing other different bits of kit and wanting to add another. </p><p></p><p>It's difficult to know how to go about the job a lot of the time. With the way it's going it is very much a case of buy it, keep it, look after it until it starts costing too much to keep or becomes unreliable. The kit is about right on the money but the tractors themselves are seriously getting out of hand, all you will find yourself doing is having to work harder and longer just to pay for more expensive kit, but then you can't do that job without it.... <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /></p><p></p><p>Used to have 2nd hand gear and keep kit too long and it just ended in unbelievable down time, big bills and arguments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ali_Maxxum, post: 5302218, member: 12293"] All our kit is bought new nowadays, due to amount of work we are doing now, still trying to work out some sort of 'model' however, I'm not sure we'll ever get to one. Contracting and kit is a vicious cycle, as soon as one thing is paid for something else is worn out and needs changing or upgrading. As a growing business as well we're still on the way to getting to where we will start to level out if that makes any sense, get as big as we think we will get and size of kit will get as big as it will get. Was looking at changing our 2 main tractors every 6 years, which isn't going to happen now thanks to changing other different bits of kit and wanting to add another. It's difficult to know how to go about the job a lot of the time. With the way it's going it is very much a case of buy it, keep it, look after it until it starts costing too much to keep or becomes unreliable. The kit is about right on the money but the tractors themselves are seriously getting out of hand, all you will find yourself doing is having to work harder and longer just to pay for more expensive kit, but then you can't do that job without it.... :scratchhead: Used to have 2nd hand gear and keep kit too long and it just ended in unbelievable down time, big bills and arguments. [/QUOTE]
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