Machinery dealers/manufactures, have they lost touch with farming reality?

[Sid]

You ain't seen machines work until you've seen them on a livestock farm. Started every day at 4am etc. Same work, day in, day out. It's where machines earn their crust, I can tell you. If there is any man on this forum who should be able to justify a brand new Fendt, loader, shovel, anything, it will be a dairy farmer. Just feeding your cows 4 hours late can get very very costly. You need machines that are reliable and going to work every day. A week of no wheels turning on an arable farm? Nothing by comparison.

Saw a post on SM of a scraper tractor swapped in after 2 years with 4000 hours on the clock!

 

[Ducati899]

I'm still amazed you have anything yellow on the place!!

Don’t plan on keeping it too long

 

[ollie989898]

Saw a post on SM of a scraper tractor swapped in after 2 years with 4000 hours on the clock!

Yeah I can believe that. I don't understand why more scraper tractors aren't hydrostatic just to save folk's knees!

 

[redsloe]

I think Clive should give it a go. He'd love the challenge and all that money.

Oh, I expect he has the money, just rather spend it on a Range Rover for himself than a tractor for an employee.
Each to their own but I spend more time on the bog than in a car so I don't see the point in having a nice car. A nice tractor on the other hand.....

 

[Cowabunga]

Oh, I expect he has the money, just rather spend it on a Range Rover for himself than a tractor for an employee.
Each to their own but I spend more time on the bog than in a car so I don't see the point in having a nice car. A nice tractor on the other hand.....

I meant to give dairy farming a go. That would eat up a few million of his fortune and keep him occupied somewhat and educate him on critical priorities. At the least it would keep him out of mischief.

 

[Bossfarmer]

do own your farm ?

if just a farmer and not a landowner there must be a LOT more money in milk than cereals ?

i need my tractors to be reliable but there is no way its viable to swap them at 2k hours ........ they do more hours per year than you 526 did so i guess we depend on them more ?

cereals have little barrier to entry any farmer can grow them or sell them hence why theres very little in it, dairy is all about the contracts as ive discovered, those lucky enough to be in an area where they can get a cop milk contract are making serious money, 600-1000/cow NET profit depending on how efficient they are

 

[marco]

do own your farm ?

if just a farmer and not a landowner there must be a LOT more money in milk than cereals ?

i need my tractors to be reliable but there is no way its viable to swap them at 2k hours ........ they do more hours per year than you 526 did so i guess we depend on them more ?

If you had a tractor that kept breaking down, different problems each time. Down for a week or two. Would you honestly stick with it and proclaim to all that the shitbox is going to stay till 10,000 hours?