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Lowland1

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is that just normal for marshes
They didn’t actually deliver 12 that’s just poetic licence. I think it was just two as my son had to return them to Saxham. My son did a harvest season with them last year and if what he says is anything to go by they go out of their way to keep you running. Several occasions last year he would call us at 9 oclock at night telling us he was on his way somewhere with a replacement header because someone had hit a telegraph pole with their machine. Obviously they know how to charge too.
 

BBC

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Read that one of the biggest problems is a lack of shipping containers for moving components. Shanghai is the largest container port in the world and as a result of the most recent lock down by the Chinese government, over 300 container ships were stranded there and could not move.
 

David.

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J11 M40
Feeling less stupid for having 2 combines in the yard now. But they aren't lexions or anywhere near that output.
Second hand dealer mate is completely denuded of stock, some of which has hung around a while.
Two in the shed is nothing at all to feel stupid about:rolleyes:.
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4course

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north yorks
Read that one of the biggest problems is a lack of shipping containers for moving components. Shanghai is the largest container port in the world and as a result of the most recent lock down by the Chinese government, over 300 container ships were stranded there and could not move.
Also bear in mind re container shortage as uk is a mass importer containers are stuck here empty waiting for a cargo to elswhere/return and storage lets/ sales is just about saturated
 

Flat 10

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Fen Edge
Also bear in mind re container shortage as uk is a mass importer containers are stuck here empty waiting for a cargo to elswhere/return and storage lets/ sales is just about saturated
I've never understood this container problem, surely ship comes from china with say 10k containers filled with pointless consumables (well 9k of them, the other 1k might be useful). It chucks them off at felixtowe and it reloads with empties (or filled with our waste) and goes back? With the same number? Surely wherever it goes it arrives with a full load of containers (themselves empty or full) and leaves likewise?!?!?!
 

Speedstar

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Scottish Borders
I've never understood this container problem, surely ship comes from china with say 10k containers filled with pointless consumables (well 9k of them, the other 1k might be useful). It chucks them off at felixtowe and it reloads with empties (or filled with our waste) and goes back? With the same number? Surely wherever it goes it arrives with a full load of containers (themselves empty or full) and leaves likewise?!?!?!
Yes you are right , the reason shipping is expensive now is the firms running the ships are running less of them & wanting more profit out of them, i priced up a container to go to the states from the Uk this last week & there was 4K between the cheapest & the most expensive one , 3 years a go 2k was the going rate to cross the pond for a 40ft container
 
Read that one of the biggest problems is a lack of shipping containers for moving components. Shanghai is the largest container port in the world and as a result of the most recent lock down by the Chinese government, over 300 container ships were stranded there and could not move.
The Chinese situation at Shanghai is "getting better".....down to 115 boats by end May... not because of more boats being unloaded...... but by shippers giving the port a complete miss.. as city still in Covid lockdown.
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
We bought a muckspreader in February it was loaded into a container at the end of February dropped at the port ready for shipping at the beginning of May it finally got put on a ship for the original quoted price. Because it kept getting pushed back for people who were paying more.
 

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