New toy day

bumkin

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vantage

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Pembs
new toy today let's hope it's a goodun so far we have had a Sanderson a cat 682 a merlow and a JCB up till now the JCB has been the best but they have had such bad press recently we thought we would try one of these
A big farm down the road from me has the bobcat version and its been very good they say. 1400 hours/year.
Good luck with it.
Surprised A&M didn’t punt you one!
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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In general I have no complaints with mine bar one. And warranty should sort that. We took preventative measures re the black "paint" on the engine surround on this one and put kevlar bed liner on it.
Only issue I have is a noise in the steering. It's a relief valve or something I'd say? Other than that it is very nice.
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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A big farm down the road from me has the bobcat version and its been very good they say. 1400 hours/year.
Good luck with it.
The local fert depo bought a bobcat a few years ago. Has given them a lot of grief. Mainly electrical issues from cooking batteries to useless joysticks. They all have problems if you ask enough people....

Ask me about my old jcb.... Only reason I went back this time was for the completely different transmission to the last one.
Hay contractor here bought an agripro several years ago. Been back to dealer 3 times with adblue issues. Current models here now dont have it like UK still does.
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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try having one that arrives twisted from new and them taking it back to factory 3 times and coming back worse each time 🙄
Old 2013 one had 5 flexplates go in 6 years. Oh and 2 torque converters. No one else I know has had problems like that. I just consider it bad luck. But. I wasnt having same transmission again. And nothing else came close to my requirements.
 

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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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