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Finn farmer

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Blimey have you never been away from home. Without Land Cruiser pickups farmers in Africa , Australia and other third world countries would really struggle.
Only in Northern Europe, no pickup style Land Cruisers here. We did sell one Hilux to Irak, probably went to be a good bomb carrier. 🙆‍♂️
 

EddieB

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Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
Not the most exciting piece of new kit, but will hopefully keep the front end of my tractor down when using my new shortdisc.

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box

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Livestock Farmer
Location
NZ
Old Hiaces and Hiluxes went there for crazy money. Didn't pass inspection (hole in the floor) ---> sell it for 4500€ to the man selling them to Irak. That was back in early 2000's.
Silly Iraqis, they should know better than to buy end of life vehicles from the infidels for far too much money. The funny thing is, those same Hiaces and Hiluxes are probably still running today.

Meanwhile in the 1st world : New vehicles stuck in limp mode with EGR, DPF and AdBlue problems , as far as the eye can see.

Who's laughing now?
 
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Finn farmer

Member
Silly Iraqis, they should know better than to buy end of life vehicles from the infidels for far too much money. The funny thing is, those same Hiaces and Hiluxes are probably still running today.

Meanwhile in the 1st world : New vehicles stuck in limp mode with EGR, DPF and AdBlue problems , as far as the eye can see.

Who's laughing now?
Problem is that rust eats them away here. 500000km's, over 20 years old. The highest anyone would've paid for it was the value of the scrap metal (that hadn't yet rusted away).
 

Finn farmer

Member
We have 2 jd"s with jd loaders,never been any bother & seem well made/strong & can see to hook on bucket/spikes etc,think MX loaders have more reach, got good suspension thou.
Still Quicke/Trima/Ålö and Isme are better in my opinion. Superior loading and unloading angles and the beam that runs between the frame isn't as awkwardly positioned. Our Deere salesman suggests to buy anything else than Deere loaders and now i know why. 🙆‍♂️

But onto the topic at hand. New industrial vacuum for my personal garage, might get one for the farm too.

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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