What....No On Farm Weighbridge?

[contractor2400]

So, you do not have a farm weighbridge but your stores are full (or are filling) with this years harvest .... wheat - barley - spuds etc etc.
Question: How much money do you potentially have in the Bank?

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

You're not repping for Griffith Elder by any chance?

 

[Courier]

The monetary value could vary massively after halloween so it's anybody's guess, particularly considering that Australia is likely to change from an exporter to an importer this year.

 

[8100]

Do they do weigh cells for chaser bins or grain trailers .Maybe worth looking into for future harvests to give a rough guess -timation .

 

[B R C]

I can guess the weight of grain I have a lot more easily than I can guess what the price is going to be in 6 months!
It is very easy to measure store and specific weight and simple maths to get tonnes, I find very accurate.

 

[Dave W]

And the award for least subtle piece of marketing goes to....

 

[Dman2]

I have 15 million

 

[betweenthelines]

I thought every farm had a weighbridge.

How else could they tell you they've just cut a 4t/acre barley crop or they're getting 12t silage/acre?

 

[PSQ]

So, you do not have a farm weighbridge but your stores are full (or are filling) with this years harvest .... wheat - barley - spuds etc etc.
Question: How much money do you potentially have in the Bank?

Easy!

You have £27,000 *more* than your neighbour whose just bought one of your weigh bridges

 

[7610 super q]

How yer diddling.

Get yourself a cheap Chinese crane scales, and weigh 12,000 tons into builders bags, then tip em out again.

Thank me later.

 

[FarmerFrank88]

I thought every farm had a weighbridge.

How else could they tell you they've just cut a 4t/acre barley crop or they're getting 12t silage/acre?

There are lots of pieces of kit that every farm wants to have but justifying them is another things.

 

[deleted user 837354]

How yer diddling.

Get yourself a cheap Chinese crane scales, and weigh 12,000 tons into builders bags, then tip em out again.

Thank me later.

You keep this up and Kev and Pete are gonna have some serious competition!

 

[Phil P]

You don’t realise just how handy a weighbridge is until you’ve got one. I’ll admit I’m slightly shocked just how much I’ve used ours since putting it in recently, no more guessing how much is in a bag, what weight the balers putting in each bale, calibrating sprayer volume, how many t/ac that field “actually” did the list just goes on.
It’s even getting a lot of interest from our caravan storage with people wanting to check they aren’t over loaded.

Ps. You also become everyone’s favourite neighbour?

 

[Richard98]

Never had a weighbridge here, would be nice to have but no way to justify it. Our favourite neighbour has one just up the road which comes in handy now and again[emoji6] dad’s pretty good at estimating the size of the heap in the shed, yields are based off how far the combine gets before it’s full until it’s all sold and weighed on the lorries.

 

[Boysground]

I would love a weigh bridge. Unfortunately it’s just not going to make its way to the top of the shopping list.

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[Johnnyboxer]

You don’t realise just how handy a weighbridge is until you’ve got one. I’ll admit I’m slightly shocked just how much I’ve used ours since putting it in recently, no more guessing how much is in a bag, what weight the balers putting in each bale, calibrating sprayer volume, how many t/ac that field “actually” did the list just goes on.
It’s even getting a lot of interest from our caravan storage with people wanting to check they aren’t over loaded.

Ps. You also become everyone’s favourite neighbour[emoji23]

All the farmers I know who have £20k putting one in haven't regretted it - only thing they regretted was not putting one in sooner

You wouldn't see a quarry operator, not having a weigh bridge ....

Can't see why farmers who deal in bulk commodities and livestock not having one ?

 

[Andrew]

So, you do not have a farm weighbridge but your stores are full (or are filling) with this years harvest .... wheat - barley - spuds etc etc.
Question: How much money do you potentially have in the Bank?

You have no idea how much you have in the bank. You may know how many tonnes you have in the store but you have no idea of the sale price until you sell it. Most farmers can tell how many bulker load there is in there own store, it’s called experience.

We have a weigh bridge on farm, it’s a Griffiths and forever going wrong so we’ve given up with it. Shopping this year for a new one.

 

[Boysground]

Fortunately for me I do have a couple of neighbours with weigh bridges. 1 I buy maize from and weighing it out of the field is the best way to buy maize.

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[Nearly]

One friend on a major route to the local mart is putting one in. He says local livestock farmers are welcome to weigh a trailer load of fat beasts on the way to the mart. That should liven up the fat ring.

 

[Hard Graft]

i would love a bridge in the yard for the same reasons as phil as well as as setting tyre pressures