avant mini loader

[chickens and wheat]

considering swapping jd 455 garden tractor mower and 4ft bobcat for an avant with mower attachment. good idea or terrible?
both bobcat and mower are approx 22hp

 

[smcapstick]

considering swapping jd 455 garden tractor mower and 4ft bobcat for an avant with mower attachment. good idea or terrible?
both bobcat and mower are approx 22hp

It depends what you plan on doing with it?

 

[TripleSix]

We have an Avant 520+

20hp Kubota diesel, will lift a round bale of hay, just.
Plenty of lifting power but lifts the rear wheels.

Done 1600 hours, very little bother apart from the odd leaking hose, and the exhaust falling off.
Did headstock pins and bushes last year, mainly from lack of grease....

I can't comment on a mower attachment, but as always, a deck out front is ideal.

Damn good for running the log splitter too.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

considering swapping jd 455 garden tractor mower and 4ft bobcat for an avant with mower attachment. good idea or terrible?
both bobcat and mower are approx 22hp

How does the mower get powered - if hydro - would the Avant have enough oil flow for a 36 or 48" deck?

 

[TripleSix]

They do EVERYTHING!

http://www.avantequipment.co.uk/avant-loader-attachments.html

 

[tanker]

How much are they roughly? I saw a few out in Estonia on a trip some years ago and they looked a cracking machine..

 

[Sparkplug]

You will need to be sat down with a stiff drink to hand when they tell you the price!!
Multione - their competitor have just relaunched again with a new Importer /Dealer I think - no used ones in the UK of either make - if there are any - they will be few and far between and in strong demand by the landscape industry plus a few ag applications.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

You can do most things with an Avant, I'm on my second one, it works everyday. With a lot of adapted machines

 

[chickens and wheat]

Im liking the ability to jump on and off easily whilst mucking out chicken sheds, we do the main parts of shed with merlo just edges corners and post with bobcat.
Also the mower on a boom lift would be great for blade maintenance, deck cleaning etc,height adjustable for rougher mowing too. 2 minute conversion from mowing to mucking out duties, other tasks would be sweeping sheds with sweepex broom.

but yes they are pricey, then again so is running a bobcat and a decent lawn tractor. I dare say avant would hold its value quite well

roll bar could be an issue mowing around apple trees , even in some sheds getting under the winched up drinking systems

 

[Mursal]

Could you offset the mower for hedges, I wonder ............
Fixed roll bar or folding?
"Chickens" you'll get your moneys worth out of it.

 

[Blue.]

The cabs on the wrong end of the pivot,great for forward visibility but you always have to look where the rear is going.

 

[Finn farmer]

The cabs on the wrong end of the pivot,great for forward visibility but you always have to look where the rear is going.

You sit at the rear on the new ones. We had a new 528 on demo, plenty of power, could lift silage bales, but would've needed rear weights (they can be bought from Avant). A bit expensive and the cows were afraid of it, but a great all arounder. There's also Norcar, which is also made in finland, i like it even better than Avant. Get a Avant coupler on it and enjoy, it's also cheaper.

This one's a beast, costs ~60k€ though.

 

[chickens and wheat]

wacker neuson do one, I have a dealer very close to me, anyone know if they are ok?

 

[Blue.]

wacker neuson do one, I have a dealer very close to me, anyone know if they are ok?

Wacker neuson are the same group as Kramer and weidemann,just the paint colour is different.

Took the canopy off mine,good machine far better than the jcb403 it replaced.

 

[chickens and wheat]

getting to heavy to be a mower now ideas right but in practice not so good.

My bobcat never goes off hardstanding and garden tractor is hopeless off the lawn, both work fine for me, but a dual purpose thing seems to be worth considering.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

I was able to lift a 600 Kg bag of fertiliser with my 528+ , and the 635 I have now lifts 750 Kg. Among the other jobs the Avant handles 1000 + round bales of Hay & haylage. I had a Bob cat before the 528, and there is no comparison, If you wanted to work out of the skid steer with the bucket at waist height for shovelling, you either had to go over the top, or under it. I never really liked it, but horses for courses.

 

[Nevas problemas]

We are on are third avant just moved to a 640 it's a beast. We remove the roll bar so we can get into the calf shed

22kph flies around the yard
Gets used everyday
70 clock hrs so far

 

[holywell farmer]

considering swapping jd 455 garden tractor mower and 4ft bobcat for an avant with mower attachment. good idea or terrible?
both bobcat and mower are approx 22hp

Contractors on Flintshire bridge job I was on last year had 1 reckoned it was ace machine

 

[TripleSix]

 

[Pond digger]

You sit at the rear on the new ones. We had a new 528 on demo, plenty of power, could lift silage bales, but would've needed rear weights (they can be bought from Avant). A bit expensive and the cows were afraid of it, but a great all arounder. There's also Norcar, which is also made in finland, i like it even better than Avant. Get a Avant coupler on it and enjoy, it's also cheaper.
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This one's a beast, costs ~60k€ though.
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@Finn farmer : I like the look of the Norcar (a7236). Is an Avant coupler available as an off-the-shelf item? Does it replace the Norcar coupler, or is it an add-on adapter? Obviously Avant have a much bigger range of attachments, but is their coupler a better design?

Thanks