Polish machinery

[Pardus84]

For the last 10 years I’ve been working for someone else. To say that I’m sick of it is to say nothing. The most frustrating is to answer to customer for someone’s mistakes.
I’m originally from Eastern Europe. Recently, I’ve seen many good manufacturers raising in Eastern Block. Fair quality for a very competitive price. Especially trailed and mounted sprayers, rollers and machinery for vegetables.
Considering above, I’m thinking to bring some of this companies to the UK market. Some of them are already present in the UK, but they are sold “no name” to businesses here, this companies than put it’s labels and mark-up, and call it a British product which I think is very unfair, nether to manufacturers nor to a farmers here.

I would like to ask the community what they think about the manufacturers from Eastern Europe, especially ones from Poland?
What are the stereotypes or associations British farmer has for machinery build in Poland?
I would be very grateful for any feedback.

P.S. Picture from below is not fake. I made it during of my trips to Poland. Obviously, the machinery that I plan to represent is more sophisticated.

 

[Werzle]

We have to put up with irish stickers on polish beef so all's fair.

 

[Lincs Lass]

The brand name has certainly got the chuckle factor ,follow that down the road ,Ide be laughing all the way

 

[Drillman]

If polish machinery has the same “work ethic” as Polish folks you won’t go far wrong.

 

[Pardus84]

If polish machinery has the same “work ethic” as Polish folks you won’t go far wrong.

Been working for British manufacturer for 7 years. We've got quite a few guys from Poland in assembly, their work ethic is alright. If one of them assembles my machine I know, I won't have issues with the customer, with others is 50/50.

 

[melted welly]

If the stuff is good, it’ll sell. It’ll take a while but get a few units out with enthusiastic sales/support and it’ll tick along. Don’t underestimate the power of brand snobbery tho, folk can be fair stuck in their ways.

 

[bobk]

I've bought a bit of Polish machinery , it's generally for the small farmer , I just made it do a bit more , build quality is better now and it's cheap £ / ha , if you're going for the bigger farmer a whole set of new issues will follow

 

[james ds]

I bought a polish made disc Harrow and it is a great machine , very well made with top quality bearings and discs , it cost me only 50% of the price of an Amazone or Pottinger disc. The Samaz range of grass machinery is selling well here and gives no trouble . All in all the price of Polish made machinery proves how much we are being ripped off by the top brand companies.

 

[Will K]

I don't have any experience with Polish machinery (just Polish workers who are mostly excellent!).

However, you might not find that this forum is not good for feedback. I do enjoy being on TFF, but the majority of farmers who post here are arable / livestock / mixed. Most of this machinery would be sold to horticulture farmers in Kent / Herefordshire / Lincolnshire.

- not a criticism of the forum; just an observation.

 

[snipe]

We bought a polish disc cultivator from a Small British company, there is very little back up from either. We have been left with a machine that is not safe to use and manufacture and British company have just walked away from it. Be very careful, I think the small simple machine will be fine but it’s the bigger more complex machinery where you might get problems.

 

[mtx.jag]

I don't have any experience with Polish machinery (just Polish workers who are mostly excellent!).

However, you might not find that this forum is not good for feedback. I do enjoy being on TFF, but the majority of farmers who post here are arable / livestock / mixed. Most of this machinery would be sold to horticulture farmers in Kent / Herefordshire / Lincolnshire.

- not a criticism of the forum; just an observation.

Lot of contractors on here from all over the country and a lot of polish tedders about now around us.

 

[Lincsman]

Needs dull green paint and red wheels, then it will sell no problem.

 

[Jim B]

Seen a bit of Polish machinery around and I think generally the quality on the whole is good. As said before I think the biggest problem you’ll have is brand snobbery, and people will worry about second hand value of the Polish machinery. But, if it’s significantly cheaper in the first place, that shouldn’t be a problem?

I.e. if for example you could buy a top brand set of discs for £10k and a similar Polish made machine for £5k. After 5 years the top brand is worth £5k, the Polish made set isn’t going to be worth nothing, so the depreciation is no worse...

 

[AFM]

We bought a polish disc cultivator from a Small British company, there is very little back up from either. We have been left with a machine that is not safe to use and manufacture and British company have just walked away from it. Be very careful, I think the small simple machine will be fine but it’s the bigger more complex machinery where you might get problems.

What brand is the disc cultivator? Also what makes it unsafe to use? We have a Polish Company trying to get us to start selling their kit for them. The prices are very attractive and quality looks good! I think as always some companies tarnish others.

 

[Wooly]

I purchased a Polish made sprayer................ I think mine was made first thing Monday morning after the Poles had been on the vodka all weekend !!

Good enough after I had put all the pipes on the correct way, fixed the leaks and tightened up the nuts.


You might want to wait until Brexit is sorted........... we might not want your beef or machinery once we leave !!

 

[Lincsman]

I purchased a Polish made sprayer................ I think mine was made first thing Monday morning after the Poles had been on the vodka all weekend !!

Good enough after I had put all the pipes on the correct way, fixed the leaks and tightened up the nuts.

Was that a dealer assembly issue though?

 

[Wilkster]

We’re on our second Polish made sprayer and also have a Polish wuffler.
The first sprayer wasn’t without it faults but it did the job. The second was a big improvement with components from known manufacturers (Arag etc) and still a fraction of the cost of a mainstream brand.
Not much to say about the wuffler apart from it does the job and hasn’t had a spanner on it.

As with everything it comes down to backup from the supplier & manufacturer and spare parts availability.
The only machine I would caution against is disc harrows as they seem to have been done to the death

 

[Pardus84]

I purchased a Polish made sprayer................ I think mine was made first thing Monday morning after the Poles had been on the vodka all weekend !!

Good enough after I had put all the pipes on the correct way, fixed the leaks and tightened up the nuts.


You might want to wait until Brexit is sorted........... we might not want your beef or machinery once we leave !!

What brand? I'm in Poland, small local show. Seen about 8 different brands, some are very small very basic, some claim to have 70% of local market.

 

[Pardus84]

We’re on our second Polish made sprayer and also have a Polish wuffler.
The first sprayer wasn’t without it faults but it did the job. The second was a big improvement with components from known manufacturers (Arag etc) and still a fraction of the cost of a mainstream brand.
Not much to say about the wuffler apart from it does the job and hasn’t had a spanner on it.

As with everything it comes down to backup from the supplier & manufacturer and spare parts availability.
The only machine I would caution against is disc harrows as they seem to have been done to the death

Do you remember the brand?

 

[robinsjanis]

For the last 10 years I’ve been working for someone else. To say that I’m sick of it is to say nothing. The most frustrating is to answer to customer for someone’s mistakes.
I’m originally from Eastern Europe. Recently, I’ve seen many good manufacturers raising in Eastern Block. Fair quality for a very competitive price. Especially trailed and mounted sprayers, rollers and machinery for vegetables.
Considering above, I’m thinking to bring some of this companies to the UK market. Some of them are already present in the UK, but they are sold “no name” to businesses here, this companies than put it’s labels and mark-up, and call it a British product which I think is very unfair, nether to manufacturers nor to a farmers here.

I would like to ask the community what they think about the manufacturers from Eastern Europe, especially ones from Poland?
What are the stereotypes or associations British farmer has for machinery build in Poland?
I would be very grateful for any feedback.

P.S. Picture from below is not fake. I made it during of my trips to Poland. Obviously, the machinery that I plan to represent is more sophisticated.View attachment 815392

Hi! From which Eastern Europe country are you?

I have Polish Jarmet sprayer, made in 2005. Metal is tired and breaks at welding points

I have Sipma straw chopper, spreader. Chain tensioners and the whole mechanism is made of weak metal, and bends. Also the spreader blocks easily and is not the best design.

Plenty of guys sell and also use Polish made machinery amd they are happy with it.

But never forget,that Poland is Europes China.