Gas Bangers

[WD-40]

Its soon that time of year when i'll need to put some gas bangers on OSR, but the two I have are knackered and driving me mad trying to get them to work proper, so im going to bite the bullet and buy 2 or 3 new ones BUT which are best? tia

 

[teslacoils]

Bangalore.

Not portek.

 

[Brisel]

Not Mk 3 Portek Scatterbirds. Badly unreliable.

 

[Bury the Trash]

..actually i quite like them , theyve got character

 

[Flintstone]

I bought eight new Portek ones three years ago. By the end of last winter only two were working. They’re utterly shoite.
Portek aren’t interested either.

 

[miniconnect]

Two, Spalding's ones here, 5 years old I think, no problem at all, been out probably 4mths a year between spring and winter crops and geese. Would recommend.

 

[tr250]

Think there will be plenty of second hand ones about this year. They can’t eat our rape now

 

[Happy]

Vining pea grower in this area uses Zon gas guns.
Grow around 7k acres of them with a gun in pretty much every field.
Know nothing about them but must be pretty trouble free to be running that many of them.

 

[Heathland]

Second vote for Spaldings and I've a couple of conversions kits too very reliable.

 

[KB6930]

Portek we've half a dozen of them and yes they give a bit of bother but it's usually easily fixed to be honest we've a Spalding and another one that's blue and white all metal I can't remember the make and out of what we have the portek's are by far the loudest.

A lot of times you just need to open up the spark plug gap to the max. They're not usually bad to keep going go over the basics and work through them

 

[Bury the Trash]

I bought eight new Portek ones three years ago. By the end of last winter only two were working. They’re utterly shoite.
Portek aren’t interested either.

shouldve read the forum then

I hate gas guns!

Rooks taking great delight in my newly drilled spring barley. Have shot a couple and hung them up but still they come. Go into the workshop to pull out a couple of porteck gas guns that were put away working last summer. Fresh battery on each and set up to test fire them. One won't spark...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

plenty of other threads running them down as well.
he even tried sell the bledy things on the market place ffs.

 

[bobk]

Sod bangers , I've got one of these

 

[Brisel]

Portek do have a good chassis and the legs improve the range. Mine have all had Spaldings conversion kits which I think is a good combination.

I’ve had osr fields covered in pigeons next to woodland but those shot had beech nuts and grain in, not rape leaves in their crops when opened up.