Richard western rear discharge

[Chuckie]

Nearest Cornthwaites is almost 60 miles away.. (Kendal if I remember right) so I’d rather deal with dealers within 15-20 miles of which we have Carrs (3 miles) Lloyd’s (12 miles) and Johnstones (15 miles)

Ring ktwo direct, I 've bought 2 from them and never needed a dealer.....

 

[Michael3112]

How do these machines tend to handle the inevitable debris that seems to find it’s way into FYM muck from time to time? Would something like a concrete block cause major headaches or would it simply churn it up with a bang...

Our one tends go chew everything in sight had a new gearbox this year after it chewed a drive gear on one side but it is well used, apart from it being very narrow when it comes to filling with the grab its a great spreader.

 

[KB6930]

I think they all use 2 chains now. Certainly all the burning and RW ones I’ve seen/priced do.

Got some rough prices on Bunning...

Farmstar 60, £16k
Farmstar 80 £20k
Lowlander 85 £25k
Lowlander 105C £26k

I’d rather either of the 2 lowlander models, perhaps these are a more contractor based machine. I’d say the RW is equal in spec to the farmstar 80...

At that money why own when hire is so cheap £130 to £150 a day owning doesn't make sense surely?

We have the choice of
Western
Roland
Teagle
Samson and Bunning around here and I'll wait specifically for these to be available very rare to have a problem in roughly 10 days spreading a year and they chew through a fair bit of rubbish that comes in from other folks muck

 

[ColinV6]

At that money why own when hire is so cheap £130 to £150 a day owning doesn't make sense surely?

We have the choice of
Western
Roland
Teagle
Samson and Bunning around here and I'll wait specifically for these to be available very rare to have a problem in roughly 10 days spreading a year and they chew through a fair bit of rubbish that comes in from other folks muck

This is what we are weighing up at the moment. Ideally we would be offsetting some of the cost against tax, which helps. I daresay a lot of equipment is the same, mowers will do less than 7 days a year work, if we bought a plough even less than that.

These sort of spreaders seem to be good for 10+ years so it’s a long term purchase if looked after well.

 

[KB6930]

This is what we are weighing up at the moment. Ideally we would be offsetting some of the cost against tax, which helps. I daresay a lot of equipment is the same, mowers will do less than 7 days a year work, if we bought a plough even less than that.

These sort of spreaders seem to be good for 10+ years so it’s a long term purchase if looked after well.

We could probably do with having one of our own but not for the amount of time we need it .
Only way we could justify it would be convenience at harvest it would be very handy if we had one sitting around so on a wet morning someone could do a bit as and when they could rather than just getting one for a few days at a time .
But the fact is hiring in is cheaper and if you get a problem you just phone the owner and they fix it you don't have to spend hour's washing it after every use (if it was already dirty) .
Spreading muck isn't as time sensitive as other jobs it can usually wait a day or 2 till a spreader is available unlike mowing or fert or slurry

 

[ColinV6]

Well we’ve taken the plunge and bought the grey spreader. Looking forwards to putting it to work on the stubble in the spring

 

[ColinV6]

Spreader turned up this morning! Looks good to be honest. Well engineered.

 

[stevedave]

It's a pity to cover it in shite.

 

[ColinV6]

It's a pity to cover it in shite.

I know

 

[stevedave]

We ran a Richard Western for 10 years and it was a great machine you wont be disappointed. Unfortunately price dictated we had to look elsewhere and now run a K2 but the RW was a cracking machine.

 

[ollie989898]

If you are taking in sewage or the like and saving thousands by not applying fertiliser you can buy the Rolls Royce of spreaders easily.

You can blow 5K on fertiliser by blinking. I would sooner buy a nice posh spreader that doess the job I want when I want. Nice Samson or Bergmann....