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Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread II

  • 28-08-2019 5:40pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭davidk1394


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    All set to go


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭Odelay


    She’s a fair sized weapon!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Thought you didn't get on with Eardly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    I hate them side mowers ever since one fell off on me on the road


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭The Nutty M


    I call a stewarts inquiry into who gets the 10k post.

    I vote Reggie.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Mod note New thread for Reggie:)

    Old one is here https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057412449&page=667

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Thought you didn't get on with Eardly

    I just had an arguement with him over parts for the mower. Nothing too serious. I priced a few other places and he was the cheapest and closest aswell


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭dzer2


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I just had an arguement with him over parts for the mower. Nothing too serious. I priced a few other places and he was the cheapest and closest aswell

    Yeah he is good on price alright. Not quite as good on assembly but maybe I had him under pressure at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,792 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I just had an arguement with him over parts for the mower. Nothing too serious. I priced a few other places and he was the cheapest and closest aswell

    Wouldn’t like to be buying second hand stuff of him, know of a wagon traded in with over 3000 loads done, that’s advertised as 1200 now is pretty bad form


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭emaherx


    "In this house Lisa we obey the laws of physics"

    https://www.businessinsider.com/edumper-121-ton-electric-dump-truck-2019-8?r=US&IR=T

    Not farming related but this is pretty cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    emaherx wrote: »
    "In this house Lisa we obey the laws of physics"

    https://www.businessinsider.com/edumper-121-ton-electric-dump-truck-2019-8?r=US&IR=T

    Not farming related but this is pretty cool.
    The massive machine then uses that energy to go back up the hill, but since it weighs less with no cargo, it ends up with extra energy.

    i thought most quarries were holes in the ground :/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭Odelay


    ganmo wrote: »
    i thought most quarries were holes in the ground :/

    They’re digging up, not down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Very same principle electric cars operate on, under deceleration the motors generate electricity. Totally sensational headline though "never uses more electricity than it generates" , but only in the specific condition that its transporting load to a net downhill, and as ganmo says most quarries are holes in the ground so you'll spend a hell of alot more time moving material to a next uphill than downhill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Very same principle electric cars operate on, under deceleration the motors generate electricity. Totally sensational headline though "never uses more electricity than it generates" , but only in the specific condition that its transporting load to a net downhill, and as ganmo says most quarries are holes in the ground so you'll spend a hell of alot more time moving material to a next uphill than downhill.


    Not quite loads of quarries on sides of mountains rock is closer to the surface


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Very same principle electric cars operate on, under deceleration the motors generate electricity. Totally sensational headline though "never uses more electricity than it generates" , but only in the specific condition that its transporting load to a net downhill, and as ganmo says most quarries are holes in the ground so you'll spend a hell of alot more time moving material to a next uphill than downhill.

    It was built for one quarry and it works there, they don't claim perpetual motion, dont see it being that sensational of a headline, I'm sure there are many many quarries like that one. Anyway I think it is a brilliant piece of engineering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,299 ✭✭✭tanko


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I hate them side mowers ever since one fell off on me on the road

    I mowed the second cut here on Sunday with my Contractors tractor and trailed mower. Mostly sloping ground and fairly soft and slippy. The mower was all over the place sliding on the steeper slopes.
    A mounted mower would have been a lot better in those conditions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,792 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I hate them side mowers ever since one fell off on me on the road

    Pin break our tractor linkage giveaway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    Pin break our tractor linkage giveaway

    Headstock snapped on the mower


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Headstock snapped on the mower

    On your new kverneland???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Panch18 wrote: »
    On your new kverneland???

    This was a while ago. Dont like them 90 deg fold up mowers since


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ganmo wrote: »

    Talking to a fella that just retired outta bord an mona. He says the john Deeres aren't fairing too well on the bogs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,792 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    ganmo wrote: »

    You’d get it very hard to feel sorry for bnm workers getting laid off when you see the state of machinery on offer their, noting short of disgraceful


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    What do lads reckon with regard to total cost of ownership with regard to buying new vs second hand? On machines which would be kept long term


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭hopeso


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Talking to a fella that just retired outta bord an mona. He says the john Deeres aren't fairing too well on the bogs

    You're worse than Geoghegan....... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    hopeso wrote: »
    You're worse than Geoghegan....... :rolleyes:

    Well you can think what ya like but only passing on what I was told. Too much electronics in them that dont agree with the moist peat apparently.

    Was told its was hard to beat the old fords and legends for dog ignorance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭Odelay


    ganmo wrote: »

    Interesting link and thanks for adding it. But the state of those machines is shocking. How the fook are they so bad after 1-3k hours work?
    My employer has a machine with 26k hours on it, driven by employees and it looks like it came out of the factory six months ago.

    Those machines were abused.


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Lot 315 and 316 will make money


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭hopeso


    Odelay wrote: »
    Interesting link and thanks for adding it. But the state of those machines is shocking. How the fook are they so bad after 1-3k hours work?
    My employer has a machine with 26k hours on it, driven by employees and it looks like it came out of the factory six months ago.

    Those machines were abused.

    Semi state body again.....Money pissed down the drain. As Reggie said above, modern tractors aren't suited to the bog (and the abuse). An organisation like BNM, with ample workshops and workforce should be well able to maintain and refurbish the classic tractors they had for many years to come, considering the low hours and seasonal nature of the work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭jimmy G M


    Are they be left outside all year long? Never stored indoors?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭mayota


    jimmy G M wrote: »
    Are they be left outside all year long? Never stored indoors?

    Looks like they bring in bits of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,459 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Odelay wrote: »
    Interesting link and thanks for adding it. But the state of those machines is shocking. How the fook are they so bad after 1-3k hours work?




    The hours on them can't be right. I saw them a few days ago and they had 30 year old tractors with ~2k hours.



    Either a broken or new clock I'd have to think....although looking at the state of the machines overall you'd have to think broken more likely than replaced!


    They'd be pulling 3000 year old bog bodies out of the bog that would be in a better state


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,069 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Went to the auction a few years ago, the smaller tractors are the best value, some of the fiats had no starters alternators etc, a lot were on tracks with no back linkage, a lot of exporters from what I could see


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Reggie. wrote: »
    This was a while ago. Dont like them 90 deg fold up mowers since

    Your new mower folds up by more than 90 degrees doesn't it? What's different in the design to stop the headstock breaking? Still a big weight its carrying isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Your new mower folds up by more than 90 degrees doesn't it? What's different in the design to stop the headstock breaking? Still a big weight its carrying isn't it?

    Much bigger headstock plus the weight is even across the headstock rather than all on one arm/side


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,544 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Came across this the other day. Too cheap to resist....:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭The Rabbi


    Came across this the other day. Too cheap to resist....:rolleyes:

    That should save the back when you are picking stones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Came across this the other day. Too cheap to resist....:rolleyes:

    You'll never get it onto the front of the NH


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,544 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Reggie. wrote: »
    You'll never get it onto the front of the NH

    Ha, might have to go on the hyundai :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Came across this the other day. Too cheap to resist....:rolleyes:

    Is that poor haybob heading down under


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,936 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Is that poor haybob heading down under

    Ha, the beauty of boards everyone has a good look at what's in the background . .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,544 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Is that poor haybob heading down under

    It could be. Not my yard though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    What’s the plan for it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,544 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    What’s the plan for it?

    Building walls mostly. I have a lot of very big stones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Building walls mostly. I have a lot of very big stones.

    Self praise is no praise:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Self praise is no praise:p

    Thanks for that Sherriff! Badly needed a bit of a chuckle! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Came across this the other day. Too cheap to resist....:rolleyes:

    Jaysus, that.... and a good chainsaw!!
    #winter sorted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭Odelay


    A grab is an awful handy attachment to have. Don’t know why excavators don’t have them, they are very popular in the states.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Odelay wrote: »
    A grab is an awful handy attachment to have. Don’t know why excavators don’t have them, they are very popular in the states.

    Do you mean the "thumb"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Panjandrums


    Do the OPW ever have auctions? I remember seeing a new 35tonne Kobelco excavator a few months back and thinking that would be a great buy in a few years for someone.


  • Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


    Nice clean Lexion 670 TerraTrac in Fermoy today, first time hearing one on tarmac. Couldn't believe how quiet it was, the header on tow was making a racket!


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