Shall we play a game?

[Bald Rick]

we

are you worried it will make it less stable with the narrower tyres?

Works mainly around the yard and probably wont bother to put it on the clamp much tbh

 

[ollie989898]

Might be worth hunting down those 'semi-industrial' Michelins, I've seen loaders with 4000 hours on and they aren't worn out like that.

I wouldn't sleep well at night knowing I had employees driving around on kit with bald tyres, the slightest accident and HSE would have a field day. Also, with loaders being the lynchpin machine on dairy farms I wouldn't want anything that would increase the risk of them being unavailable for use.

 

[PSQ]

All bets off .........

Bought some 480/70/26 at £550 fitted.
Going to look a bit odd but better than a third the price of 620s

Is the 480/70-26 load rating high enough for the loader?

 

[startinghandle]

I remember nearly tipping our bendy matbro over on level ground

 

[YELROM]

I remember nearly tipping our bendy matbro over on level ground

So do I but the shipping container on the front of mine wasn’t helping

 

[Farmer_Joe]

I remember nearly tipping our bendy matbro over on level ground

same here, if you steer fully left for example the right hand wheels are miles apart, i hit a rock up hill a bit under the front left like this and it was nearly over

 

[kiwi pom]

I’ve never thought it’s efficient to have loaders doing that many hours, we used to do it all with one but it ended up men were waiting for it all the time. If there were other jobs on like unloading fertiliser, loading grain, muck spreading or silage, the yard came to a standstill because there isn’t a loader to use. We run 3 now, a little 2.5t machine for carrying straw around for bedding up and mucking out calf pens, scraping out feed passages etc doing 1100hrs/ year, a ‘main machine’ that does all the feeding, muck loading and silage clamping that does 1250/ year, and an old 12 plate with 8000 hours on that’s a standby machine to use a if the main one is busy. For straw hauling and filling the drill it’s left in the field. That one does about 800/ year. The key thing is nobody is ever waiting for a loader. If a job needs doing, there’s one there to use straight away.

Completely agree. At my last UK job we had a Manitou 628 and a knackered little forklift that could just about shift a spud box on concrete.
The Manitou did all the work on 1000 acres with 150 dairy cows plus followers, bull beef, arable and 200 acres of spuds over 4 sites.
It was ridiculous there was always someone waiting for it and it did 3000 hours a year. I remember the dealer dropping off a demo for just over a week in spring, we used it to help get caught up and put over 100 hours on it while still using the old one. The boss just couldn't see the value of even putting a loader on a tractor (we had more than enough tractors) The boss would send you out the yard with it at 6am to load spreaders or a spud planter and at 9 o clock the herdsman would ring and you'd have to figure out a way he could get it back for a bit to feed cows
Complete s**t show every day.

 

[BredRedHfd]

All bets off .........

Bought some 480/70/26 at £550 fitted.
Going to look a bit odd but better than a third the price of 620s

Make sure he does a good job polishing your rim....

 

[Tomr10]

How about these

 

[Bald Rick]

How about these

Had a shovel on demo a few years ago.
Waste of time around the yard as too slow and too cumbersome.

 

[ollie989898]

Completely agree. At my last UK job we had a Manitou 628 and a knackered little forklift that could just about shift a spud box on concrete.
The Manitou did all the work on 1000 acres with 150 dairy cows plus followers, bull beef, arable and 200 acres of spuds over 4 sites.
It was ridiculous there was always someone waiting for it and it did 3000 hours a year. I remember the dealer dropping off a demo for just over a week in spring, we used it to help get caught up and put over 100 hours on it while still using the old one. The boss just couldn't see the value of even putting a loader on a tractor (we had more than enough tractors) The boss would send you out the yard with it at 6am to load spreaders or a spud planter and at 9 o clock the herdsman would ring and you'd have to figure out a way he could get it back for a bit to feed cows
Complete s**t show every day.

Need two loaders at least for a unit like that.

 

[ollie989898]

Had a shovel on demo a few years ago.
Waste of time around the yard as too slow and too cumbersome.

Would a shovel not be ideal for loading the wagon and let the telehandler do the bits inside?

 

[marco]

Completely agree. At my last UK job we had a Manitou 628 and a knackered little forklift that could just about shift a spud box on concrete.
The Manitou did all the work on 1000 acres with 150 dairy cows plus followers, bull beef, arable and 200 acres of spuds over 4 sites.
It was ridiculous there was always someone waiting for it and it did 3000 hours a year. I remember the dealer dropping off a demo for just over a week in spring, we used it to help get caught up and put over 100 hours on it while still using the old one. The boss just couldn't see the value of even putting a loader on a tractor (we had more than enough tractors) The boss would send you out the yard with it at 6am to load spreaders or a spud planter and at 9 o clock the herdsman would ring and you'd have to figure out a way he could get it back for a bit to feed cows
Complete s**t show every day.

3 doing a thousand a year would make more sense and be way more efficient. After the initial investment you'd be back to buying one every 5 years.

 

[Courier]

If that’s right, then we are getting our pants pulled down bigly in the U.K.

Probably Import duties to add now on the total value including the carriage

 

[Tomr10]

Had a shovel on demo a few years ago.
Waste of time around the yard as too slow and too cumbersome.

I was poorly refering to the state of the wheels

 

[KennyO]

 

[Spud]

How many more hours can we get on these tyres?

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Bear in mind that they are approaching 4000hrs and a new set is now well over £6k ... even for Wunhunglo never mind BKT or better

Place your bets ...

Have you tried agribibs?