- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Nope, been there done that ?Bought a new spout ??? accidentally i may add.Put her in 1000pto bound to spread wide then
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Cheap solid fert spreader
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
- Location
- mid wales
I was going to say, had visions of the spout flying off in to the next county.
Deutzdx3
Member
Could you not speak to you fendt dealer or horsch dealer, being you’ve just spent a fair amount on a drill and what have you, im sure they would be able to hire/lend you a demo machine. Possibly do a farm demo day showing the capabilities of the machine to potential customers. Worth a shot perhaps.
ollie989898
Member
I'd find someone who knows their stuff and pay them to do it.
Gordy1
Member
- Location
- Essex/suffolk border
Cheffins machinery auctions on Monday, they usually have a few.
this is not a job where the product can melt ...... or I would
see my earlier post
we are more than capable, have time, tractor etc and I want the job doing on my tyres, my RTK, my operator etc
cost of a contractor would be more than buying a cheap enough machine for a worse job
prefer not to take the pee or waste peoples time - I only ask for demos etc if I intend to buy potentially
I have a mechanically sound Kv geo that’s has a few scars on the back of it (poor storage)
Has been through our workshop, unlocked for vr and sc...£4,500 from memory...but what product are you spreading, would make a difference to the need for high lift vanes...
JDJ
Member
- Location
- Brædstrup, Denmark
Bredal B2 (or b4-b6 if you want a trailer model)
Cheap, very accurate, simple and reliable.
We bought our B2 fifteen years ago for like 3500 £.
We can spread 30 -35 tons of fert on a 8 hours day
holywell farmer
Member
- Location
- holywell, north wales
How cheap do want to go?
Deutzdx3
Member
Wouldn’t say it’s taking the pee if your straight with them. Sure they would rent their demo unit out. We use to hire our vicon geo spreader out when we had a main dealership.
- Location
- E Yorks
this highlights something that one day I’ll start a thread on where I’ll probably get crucified but it will keep clive’s traffic hits up. That some farmers are totally straight and honest and in some cases too! To the extent some dealers take the advantage and the pee out of them and don’t treat them properly. Other farmers have on demo (free hire / contracting) all sorts with no intention of ever buying one and have tractors combines etc begged when they’re behind or in a pickle usually if they’re own making because they were too clever for there own good and the dealers / manufacturers keep sending the stuff along.
Where as the Honest one has a disaster combine parked up for a couple of days in harvest waiting for parts and he never says a word and the dealer never offers him a prop up / loan / demo machine because it’s out on its annual weeks contracting with farmer b who always has one from them for nothing to get finished because next year he might buy one of there’s!
Sorry rant over
Alistair.
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
I might be wrong, but I’m sure Soyl have hire spreaders available, Amazon’s I think, probably quite hi spec models too. Maybe worth a call?
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
I tried to sell a one year old kuhn 40w, everyone liked it but went off to buy brand new, interest free finance made them silly not too.. Now I rent it out to a neighbour so basically he's buying it on interest free but from me.
I use Rhiza (Riza) for my PF stuff so not sure they would want to help
looking at what you can buy something oldish for I think buying is a no brainer , as long as I buy something half decent and at the right price, I can always move it on later if I don't continue to need it
I would like ISO thought - it's just so much better than extra control boxes and cables trying to link it all to existing GPS and VRA etc
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
used to have a neighbour who had every machine under the sun on demo rarely saw his own tackle on the back of his tractor. I had tried to have a demo of a certain item which our dealer had refused as he did not have one available, the next day I saw why it was trimming all my neighbours set aside. He never, ever bought off that company but still they sent him kit on a regular basis to try out
Cowabunga
Member
- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
You could possibly find a Vicon Rotaflow with ISObus terminal [or without the actual terminal] at around ten years of age if you were willing to risk it for a biscuit. Used values on such machines are such that many dealers will give less for an used one than for a simple mechanical equivalent . This is because most people who can justify such a thing can justify new with a warranty, and because they are just so time consuming to set up and costly to get into a resalable condition and match to a tractor. People who buy these machines new tend to have a fairly high workload and run them long term and into the ground, partly because of the high depreciation.