Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread II

MickeyShtyles

wrangler wrote: »

It looks to be water coming down between the cab and the pick up body, even so it shouldn't have happened. It has to be a problem on other hiluxs' too. It couldn't have been painted right the first day, I've emailed Toyota Ireland any way. They replied with an email advertising assuredusedcars.toyota.ie. Probably di that as soon as they got my email address, I was amused at them sending an ad for secondhand Toyotas, they also sent an email saying it'd be dealt with in rotation

I wouldn’t be holding your breath with Toyota Ireland.
I kicked up stink with them over my now three year old Auris regarding serious economy issues and I got passed around like a ragdoll.

wrangler

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

I wouldn’t be holding your breath with Toyota Ireland.
I kicked up stink with them over my now three year old Auris regarding serious economy issues and I got passed around like a ragdoll.

I had a run in with them with a new hilux in 2000 and have to say I was treated verrry generously but it was a serious issue.
Ironically I traded it in immediately it was sorted for a l200 and the buyer didn't even notice the issues. It was a jeep that was built for a different country

jd_12345

I see the man farmflix made famous is gone out of business I think..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK5rvXNsHkU
https://bid.midulsterauctions.com/m/view-auctions/catalog/id/214
Jonny Neal was some craic to watch
Hopefully he'll be back going soon

Reggie.

jd_12345 wrote: »

I see the man farmflix made famous is gone out of business I think..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK5rvXNsHkU
https://bid.midulsterauctions.com/m/view-auctions/catalog/id/214
Jonny Neal was some craic to watch
Hopefully he'll be back going soon

Yeah. Mad to think of him gone. It's a natural course tho

French Toast

Crazy amount of gear. Only recently watched the FarmFlix episode on him, some character.

K.G.

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah. Mad to think of him gone. It's a natural course tho

If you go back over the lads that been on grassmen etc a good few have gone out the game.mackelvy s in green fever,luke furze left silage for a while but not sure is he back at it,theres someone else too but the name escapes me.some told me beckit on galway has had his ups and downs.i think contractors are one of irish agriculture s biggest risk factors.people say they cant justify the machinery to do their work whereas you have guys with 1.5 million euro outfits for250 to 300k of work ,its nuts

K.G.

French Toast wrote: »

Crazy amount of gear. Only recently watched the FarmFlix episode on him, some character.

And the tractors havent the hours done according to ads

jaymla627

K.G. wrote: »

And the tractors havent the hours done according to ads

All the above machinery bar the older stuff is obviously on hire purchase, how can it be sold at auction by the man in question, remember him saying about the John deeres the time he bought the newer ones that they offered the best finance package which was their in-house finance something doesn’t add up, no viewing allowed of the gear either

K.G.

jaymla627 wrote: »

All the above machinery bar the older stuff is obviously on hire purchase, how can it be sold at auction by the man in question, remember him saying about the John deeres the time he bought the newer ones that they offered the best finance package which was their in-house finance something doesn’t add up, no viewing allowed of the gear either

Does it say who the auctioneer is acting for

Reggie.

K.G. wrote: »

Does it say who the auctioneer is acting for

Jn contracts

Reggie.

K.G. wrote: »

If you go back over the lads that been on grassmen etc a good few have gone out the game.mackelvy s in green fever,luke furze left silage for a while but not sure is he back at it,theres someone else too but the name escapes me.some told me beckit on galway has had his ups and downs.i think contractors are one of irish agriculture s biggest risk factors.people say they cant justify the machinery to do their work whereas you have guys with 1.5 million euro outfits for250 to 300k of work ,its nuts

I could possibly see the contracting game changing in the future

Grueller

Reggie. wrote: »

I could possibly see the contracting game changing in the future

In what way?

FintanMcluskey

Grueller wrote: »

In what way?

This is my irrelevant opinion but massive investment machinery that’s idle for months surely can’t make sense.

A 280hp+ tractor on a trailed harvester surely makes better sense than a SP. The tractor is useful all year round.

Precision chop silage isn’t as critical with diet feeders!

A local contractor used a trailed harvester behind a 180-90 fiat until 2002 when a SP was purchased.

By 2014 the SP was lifting less area than the trailed was 13 years previously

Reggie.

Grueller wrote: »

In what way?

Maybe more specialised.

Less bit of everything outfits as the machinery is too expensive to more smaller specialised outfits.

Say lads dedicated to baling or pit silage and slurry only. Lads doing reseeding only. In fact that was what I was half thinking of doing myself.

French Toast

Reggie. wrote: »

Less bit of everything outfits as the machinery is too expensive to more smaller specialised outfits.

Makes sense as a man would have time to have a part time job along with contracting then, as opposed to being a year round contractor.

K.G.

Reggie. wrote: »

Maybe more specialised.

Less bit of everything outfits as the machinery is too expensive to more smaller specialised outfits.

Say lads dedicated to baling or pit silage and slurry only. Lads doing reseeding only. In fact that was what I was half thinking of doing myself.

A man said to me once he only made money when he drove the tractor and could never make money out of paying someone else to do it.

kevthegaff

Reggie. wrote: »

Maybe more specialised.

Less bit of everything outfits as the machinery is too expensive to more smaller specialised outfits.

Say lads dedicated to baling or pit silage and slurry only. Lads doing reseeding only. In fact that was what I was half thinking of doing myself.

Very good.point, rather than contractors in competition for even hedgecutting

visatorro

Reggie. wrote:

I could possibly see the contracting game changing in the future

Yeah but its a great way to launder money and buy coloured diesel don't forget

Reggie.

visatorro wrote: »

Yeah but its a great way to launder money and buy coloured diesel don't forget

So is farming

9935452

emaherx wrote: »

Similar issues with Nissan pickups over 10 years ago. They payed out on out of warranty repairs and even bought a lot of them back I think.

Twas the nissan navaras and pathfinders.
Chassis basically rotted from the inside out and cracked. . Some actually broke in 2.
Nissan inspected the vehicles. .
The ones that were repairable were sent to spain to be repaired. They gave the owners a new navara as a replacement until theirs was repaired.
If it wasnt repairable they valued the jeep and made an offer for it . There was no argueing about the offer, eithre take it or leave it . Then you were completely on your own
They also gave the option of trading it against a new one .
There was a lad on fb called richie holmes that was selling repair kits for them and doing the repairs .
A lot of lads opted to repair their own ones themselves as they were losing too much money or they did it as a precautionary measure. They passed nissans inspection but could see rust forming

Mooooo

Reggie. wrote: »

Maybe more specialised.

Less bit of everything outfits as the machinery is too expensive to more smaller specialised outfits.

Say lads dedicated to baling or pit silage and slurry only. Lads doing reseeding only. In fact that was what I was half thinking of doing myself.

Already happening, few bigger outfits down here alright but our baler does all bales, spreads a small bit of slurry or fert for neighbours. Slurry man is predominantly slurry but falls in with contractors at pit silage and maize. Reseeding lads do pit silage and combining, along with dung, lime and reseeding. Pit silage crew main man has harvester but the lads that mow own the mowers and some of the lads that draw with him use their own tractors. Most of them would have plenty work down here

Jb1989

Reggie. wrote: »

Maybe more specialised.

Less bit of everything outfits as the machinery is too expensive to more smaller specialised outfits.

Say lads dedicated to baling or pit silage and slurry only. Lads doing reseeding only. In fact that was what I was half thinking of doing myself.

You seem to be expanding rather than specialising or am I wrong

maidhc

9935452 wrote: »

If it wasnt repairable they valued the jeep and made an offer for it . There was no argueing about the offer, eithre take it or leave it .

There was plenty arguing to be had on the offer!

Odelay

Jb1989 wrote: »

You seem to be expanding rather than specialising or am I wrong

I think he knows his target audience and is specializing in key areas for year round steady income without over stretching himself, a lot to be said for it.

Aravo

Mooooo wrote: »

Already happening, few bigger outfits down here alright but our baler does all bales, spreads a small bit of slurry or fert for neighbours. Slurry man is predominantly slurry but falls in with contractors at pit silage and maize. Reseeding lads do pit silage and combining, along with dung, lime and reseeding. Pit silage crew main man has harvester but the lads that mow own the mowers and some of the lads that draw with him use their own tractors. Most of them would have plenty work down here

Makes perfect sense to have a pool of machinery from a number of people. Owner as operator is best option.

Reggie.

Jb1989 wrote: »

You seem to be expanding rather than specialising or am I wrong

I'd say I'm stalled atm. I'm gonna hit a junction in a few years where I'll either have to start a baling outfit or curl back the grass side of things

Aravo

In 2020 the best money contracting wise was made by turf cutters. April and May was fantastic weather wise. Could work 12-14hr days, not bothering anyone, socially distanced. At e50 a hopper, they made their money.
Likely to be banned within the next 5-10 years.

FintanMcluskey

Aravo wrote: »

In 2020 the best money contracting wise was made by turf cutters. April and May was fantastic weather wise. Could work 12-14hr days, not bothering anyone, socially distanced. At e50 a hopper, they made their money.
Likely to be banned within the next 5-10 years.

It’s called brown gold for a reason.

A SF outfit and digger with wide pads is relentless turnover

A 10 sod unit is usually upwards of €55 per load. 5 loads an hour is achievable with a good digger driver

wrangler

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd say I'm stalled atm. I'm gonna hit a junction in a few years where I'll either have to start a baling outfit or curl back the grass side of things

Generally a farmer will use one contractor for everything Even if you do a full baling outfit the farmer has to go somewhere else for all the other services so you're competing there all the time........ apart from that you have to keep the tractors working all year round to spread the load of fixed costs over the year rather than four mths

Reggie.

wrangler wrote: »

Generally a farmer will use one contractor for everything Even if you do a full baling outfit the farmer has to go somewhere else for all the other services so you're competing there all the time........ apart from that you have to keep the tractors working all year round to spread the load of fixed costs over the year rather than four mths

Not true. I'm reseeding and doing slurry in plenty of places that have upto three different contractors in a year doing different jobs.

Also out my way theres no contractor that does everything from slurry to silage to reseeding to hedgecutting. Everyone seems to be scaling back.