Machinery too expensive

[Cowabunga]

but if its not going to be viable in the future I don't see the point in spending the money now

Neither do I. They may be slightly more optimistic than I am.

 

[jg123]

I don't understand machinery pricing, go online and can find prices for most things even new cars, even if you phone a machinery dealer he doesn't know the price of half the kit. Why not have a basic bog standard price advertised and then you can spec it up more as you like with £2k here and there for the extras. Would say a lot of wasted time for farmers and dealers

 

[smcapstick]

I don't understand machinery pricing, go online and can find prices for most things even new cars, even if you phone a machinery dealer he doesn't know the price of half the kit. Why not have a basic bog standard price advertised and then you can spec it up more as you like with £2k here and there for the extras. Would say a lot of wasted time for farmers and dealers

I can't remember the price of anything, hence displaying prices clearly on my adverts. It's as much for my reference as it is the customer's.

 

[David.]

Ahh, but you'll move a little?

 

[smcapstick]

Ahh, but you'll move a little?

On some things. Not others. I have a mortgage and two young children!

 

[Henarar]

Neither do I. They may be slightly more optimistic than I am.

that's what I thought when you wrote it, why invest in something now that you don't think is going to be investable/viable in a few years
if you didn't think milking was going to be any good in 5 or even ten years time would you put in a new parlour and a lot of sheds to keep more cows
perhaps better to save the money now and see what happens,

 

[Henarar]

On some things. Not others. I have a mortgage and two young children!

hell of a good price to TFF members

 

[Hilly]

I don't understand machinery pricing, go online and can find prices for most things even new cars, even if you phone a machinery dealer he doesn't know the price of half the kit. Why not have a basic bog standard price advertised and then you can spec it up more as you like with £2k here and there for the extras. Would say a lot of wasted time for farmers and dealers

They are in the dark ages regarding pricing, always a big secrete perhaps some pay more than others ?

 

[mixed breed]

Some don't even know what stock they have, let alone a price. Brought and paid for a secondhand loader tractor from main dealers back in march. Two days later after they'd banked the cheque they realised it had already been sold before it even came in the yard. Took a week to get my money transferred back.

 

[Cowabunga]

that's what I thought when you wrote it, why invest in something now that you don't think is going to be investable/viable in a few years
if you didn't think milking was going to be any good in 5 or even ten years time would you put in a new parlour and a lot of sheds to keep more cows
perhaps better to save the money now and see what happens,

I stopped investing in the business about five years ago. The last tractor I bought is nine and at this juncture I don't envisage ever buying another. Just in case
If the slurry store or dairy needed significant new investment urgently tomorrow, the cows would be out of the gate by the month's end.

 

[steveR]

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Looks like an old friend.... Mine is a Unifarm, slightly different design

 

[smcapstick]

Looks like an old friend.... Mine is a Unifarm, slightly different design

I have one of those, too

 

[holywell farmer]

A year or two back I was on a farm spreading and the tractor driver was just finishing the last few acres of ploughing. I noticed he was parked up for an hour or so. As I worked across to him I got talking, seems as though the plough had broken in some way.

An electronic box of tricks in the cab. To turn a plough over. Oh, and to alter the furrow width.

What a load of bloody nonsense. Man has managed for generations and generations without electronics on a plough and there was this chap ploughing one way, driving up the field doing nothing and ploughing back down to finish the job.

Completely crazy.

Seems silly to complicate a plough with electrics

 

[steveR]

I have one of those, too

Happily mine, although it must be 10 years old, is still working just fine

But now looking to see if I can find a slightly bigger, front mounted drum mower... No need for a larger one for my needs.

 

[holywell farmer]

I stopped investing in the business about five years ago. The last tractor I bought is nine and at this juncture I don't envisage ever buying another. Just in case
If the slurry store or dairy needed significant new investment urgently tomorrow, the cows would be out of the gate by the month's end.

Cowabunga if don't mind me saying eventually you have to replace at least 1 of your tractors when time comes ?

 

[Cowabunga]

Cowabunga if don't mind me saying eventually you have to replace at least 1 of your tractors when time comes ?

Not necessarily. I'll give you three guesses why.

 

[holywell farmer]

Not necessarily. I'll give you three guesses why.

You planning to sell up some day ?

 

[Cowabunga]

You planning to sell up some day ?

That's guess number one.

 

[Hilly]

Not necessarily. I'll give you three guesses why.

You retire with it ?
you refurb it ?
you do away with one ?

 

[Hilly]

You use contractor ?