Getting Add Blue on farms

[turbo]

Now I am starting to understand why some contractors run 300 + hp tractors on 5 furrow ploughs and twin rotor rakes,someother bugger is putting the fuel in for them

 

[RWG Contracts]

Now I am starting to understand why some contractors run 300 + hp tractors on 5 furrow ploughs and twin rotor rakes,someother bugger is putting the fuel in for them

What a brilliant comment

 

[Boothy]

Now I am starting to understand why some contractors run 300 + hp tractors on 5 furrow ploughs and twin rotor rakes,someother bugger is putting the fuel in for them

And stealing adblue

 

[Dan7626]

Now I am starting to understand why some contractors run 300 + hp tractors on 5 furrow ploughs and twin rotor rakes,someother bugger is putting the fuel in for them

Brilliant!!

 

[kiwi pom]

I think using farmers fuel got more popular round Cheshire in the early 90's when umbilical spreading took off. The first guys to do it were that busy and travelled so far the gear never made it back to the yard so it was easier than having a bowser or pricking about with drums. Thought it was a bad idea then and still do now.

 

[Lazy Eric]

I think it's probably easier to factor in the price of adblue to your rates and supply your own, but use customers diesel.
To be fair if I'd have been customer I'd have like to have been asked first. This adblue business is still new to a lot.

 

[Blue.]

My dad 1st used contractors in the late 70s,we always supplied the fuel,it's always been the same in Lancs must be a northern thing,I've heard tales of straw filled diesel tanks with garden hose filler pipes

Never had anyone ask for add blue yet,it wouldn't bother me,my main concern with contractors is turning up full.

 

[Speedstar]

Now I am starting to understand why some contractors run 300 + hp tractors on 5 furrow ploughs and twin rotor rakes,someother bugger is putting the fuel in for them

Why is that ?
939 on a 4 rotor rake only used 1.1 liters per acre less than a 180hp tractor

 

[RWG Contracts]

My dad 1st used contractors in the late 70s,we always supplied the fuel,it's always been the same in Lancs must be a northern thing,I've heard tales of straw filled diesel tanks with garden hose filler pipes

Never had anyone ask for add blue yet,it wouldn't bother me,my main concern with contractors is turning up full.

Man you used to work is worse for this. Turned up next door to do first cut and all his tractors had just driven back from Shropshire

 

[Kevtherev]

Buy your own diesel & add blue less reliance on customers.
You don't go to the hairdresser with your own scissors

 

[Speedstar]

How much add blue did you use?was it just one tractor or a few and the chopper

Was 3 tractors and we only used 20 liters in total of the farmers add blue,have never had a problem with getting fuel or billing farmers for used on jobs in the past 35 + years and have never had a problem with add blue until now,if a farmer has it we get if not it was. Charged for

 

[Blue.]

Man you used to work is worse for this. Turned up next door to do first cut and all his tractors had just driven back from Shropshire

When he next comes to me I'll check the tanks

I used to write down what everyone used,don't bother now but telling them you know how much diesel they should be using stops them taking the pee.

 

[Massey Holland]

I struggle to understand the logic of this,farmer supplying fuel setup,am I missing something?

 

[RWG Contracts]

When he next comes to me I'll check the tanks

I used to write down what everyone used,don't bother now but telling them you know how much diesel they should be using stops them taking the pee.

Dad writes it down, mainly for his own interest I think and for last 4 years we've used exactly the same amount of diesel to do 1st cut within 50 litre. We've had 4 different choppers, 3 different loading shovels, all 416's but ages different, and various different models and ages of tractors

 

[RWG Contracts]

I struggle to understand the logic of this,farmer supplying fuel setup,am I missing something?

It's a northern thing

 

[Speedstar]

I struggle to understand the logic of this,farmer supplying fuel setup,am I missing something?

What are you missing ?
We turn up with full tanks do his work and leave his farm with a full tank of his fuel

 

[Massey Holland]

Speedstar you come across as a very sharp individual at the top of your game both as a contractor and with your engineering,surely you can see that it's a very bad system.
Rate per hour or acre around here,no arguments.

 

[turbo]

Why is that ?
939 on a 4 rotor rake only used 1.1 liters per acre less than a 180hp tractor

Less?

 

[Iron150]

We supply fuel to contractor, less crop means less fuel used, seems to work ok for us

 

[stuart]

It's a northern thing

how'd you go on with this using farmers fuel a lot of people will buy straw away from the farm around so you go bale there bit run 20-30 min back to the farm to fill up then on to the next and so on seems easier just to charge including fuel maybe i'm missing something