Genuine Vs Non Genuine KV Boards

Hi, I’m looking to change the boards on my 4F KV plough (No. 8 Bodies)

I can get genuine ones for £119 each and non for £69.

Are the genuine ones worth the extra?

We plough roughly 200 acre each year on a mixture of heavy clay to loam ground.

Thanks
 

miniconnect

Member
Location
Argyll
If you just want it brown on top, go non genuine, if you want all your furrows the same go Genuine every time.
Bought a 5 furrow plough on non genuine boards last year, couldn't get it it match up, stripped the boards off and none lay together, with genuine boards you'll struggle to peel them apart they are that identical.
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
Genuine every time. They fit properly, they run cleaner, they last longer, the only board I've broken was non genuine and bolts are included with genuine.
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
am sure with good disc genuine No.28 boards will be around £100 surely ? can ask local dealer as they can normally do a fair bit off & KV every year runs a 27% disc on parts if your spending £500+
 

Pennine Ploughing

Member
Mixed Farmer
The people who make genuine boards also make non genuine ..... work it out .
I would find this hard to believe, companies will put a lot of R&D into the product, and would not make sub standard (cheaper) parts, this would not be in their own interest, so no
and such as Spaldings make their own, all over the world there will be companies that will make none genuine copies,
how good the copies are in both quality of steel and 3D shape will vary a fair bit,
Chapmans steel at Sheffield are a big manufacture of none genuine plough boards in the UK, and will only deal in bulk to trade, ie 500 or more of the same product run, they are not 100% near to genuine but close, and again at the top end in price of none genuine, cheap boards will be of a poorer quality and 3D shape, so you will get what you pay for,,
this is why the likes of KV, Lemkin, manufactures wont make none genuine parts for their own labeled machines
 

Roy_H

Member
I think l mentioned this before. My brief encounter with non-gen Kv parts. Not mouldboards but shares this time. I wanted a set for my 3 furrow reversible and the local supplier convinced me to try Molbro shares " Much cheaper than Kv but just as good" or so he told me. Anyway he got his book out, cross referenced the part numbers and sent me home with 6 shares, 3 left, 3 right. Could l get them to fit? Could l fudge! So l called him. His attitude was " Don't be silly we sell loads of these, l tell you what, I'll come down in half an hour and put them on for you!" So he duly arrived with a smug grin on his face and a socket set. He couldn't get the buggers on either! (That certainly wiped the grin off his face) Well Well, he just happened to have a set of gen shares in the van so we put those on instead .:whistle:
 
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Jimbo

Member
Location
The kingdom
From my experience we have two ploughs on gen metal and one on spurious . The one on spurious will need new boards soon and will be replaced with gen as they gum up on the lighter land . Fine on stiff stuff though .
 

john432

Member
Location
Carmarthenshire
Just curious... if all the aftermarket parts are so bad? How do these companies keep going ? Some times on older plough the Original manufacturer has long stopped producing? Supplying wearing parts. Friend had a Fiskars plough, and the only source of parts we could find came from FrankOriginal , a foundry in Germany. Everything seems fine. They still manufacture boards for the Kverneland hydrein plough, in various lengths... when unavailable from Kverneland I believe? Just look at the vast range produced by ie Frank Original, are they really so stupid that they can't get the shape and the holes in the right place? Wouldn't be surprised that some aftermarket suppliers, just outsource to China for the least cost. And probably get it all wrong!
 

Galcam

Member
Some of the no 8 boards on my 4 furrow rev need replacing. It’s a variwidth and I plough on 650 tyres so I generally plough at full width. I don’t do a lot of ploughing so I will never wear a set of boards out. Should I put no 28s on or stay with no 8s? What difference will it make to my ploughing one way or the other. Ploughing mainly pasture ground that can have blocks and rocks!! Thanks in advance.
 

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