Mobile dipper on new government grant scheme.

[Fat Lamb]

Mobile dipper option on new grant scheme, £5616 towards cost of new machine. Based on Portaquip design plunge tank I believe at a cost of approximately £24000. Anybody out there got any thoughts on this?

 

[neilo]

It's a bit of help to buy one if you are looking at one and it's just out of reach?

No different to any of the other items on there surely?

 

[hally]

We bought our portequip (half share with a friend) not that many years ago for £4500. Worlds gone mad.

 

[Fat Lamb]

We bought our portequip (half share with a friend) not that many years ago for £4500. Worlds gone mad.

Would that be the single axle smaller one?

 

[hally]

Would that be the single axle smaller one?

Yes, is there more than one model now?

 

[neilo]

The grant specifies a minimum size, hydraulic ramps, etc iirc.

 

[Fat Lamb]

Yes, is there more than one model now?

They do a larger double axle one, looks massive compared to the other one, probably more of a contractor job. Just want to be able to do my own sheep and bought in store lambs. Used to run a sheep shower (still have it) but not aloud to use it. We did contract with it but was in the summer purely for blowfly control.

 

[hally]

They do a larger double axle one, looks massive compared to the other one, probably more of a contractor job. Just want to be able to do my own sheep and bought in store lambs. Used to run a sheep shower (still have it) but not aloud to use it. We did contract with it but was in the summer purely for blowfly control.

Showers are ok for some things but certainly not scab which our vets say is becoming a huge problem, shame the grant stipulates hydraulic legs as the legs on ours takes less than 30secs to drop down and are perfectly adequate for most farmers. Just checked the website and the new portequip dipper has some improvements over ours , namely the run down ramp is full width where as ours is just a narrow guillotine and ramp and often a ewe gets backwards into it blocking all the others. Other than that nothing has much changed and it’s easily capable of dipping 1000 ewes a day with just two people.

 

[Yale]

I made our mobile dipper 20 years ago,cost very little then apart from my time,used it a couple of weeks ago.

Hydraulic lift to top of bath,levelling jack and operates the front draining pen come exit ramp.Tractor on fast idle for hydraulics.

 

[Fendt516profi]

2000 litre tank minimum, dripping pen area which drains into tank, hydraulic system for unpacking/packing up, entry and exit ramps. Tractor towed road legal.
Single axle portequip fits spec for 15k your wanting to go bells and whistles

 

[Fendt516profi]

just behind wheel is hydraulic pump to unpack

got lights on

 

[Al R]

When they put a dipper on a grant scheme the government basically admits there is a major scab problem!

 

[Fendt516profi]

We bought our portequip (half share with a friend) not that many years ago for £4500. Worlds gone mad.

Suppose you mean 9k total. Before price rises earlier this year they were about 10k

 

[hally]

it’s a bit more sophisticated than ours as we just have a wire rope around a winder type set up for jacking it up but it works easy enough.

 

[hally]

Suppose you mean 9k total. Before price rises earlier this year they were about 10k

No £4500 in total but we are going back a few years

 

[Fendt516profi]

Has yours got two draining pens?

 

[hally]

Has yours got two draining pens?

No