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Bord Na Móna Equipment

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Ex airport tractors are what ya want but they come up for sale once every blue moon! There's a few tidy yokes up at knock airport but I don't think they'll ever be sold. The vintage uk council tractors were some job masseys and db's painted yellow and most with fast road gearboxes and brakes all round from factory!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 260 ✭✭Jimlh86


    Fair points but still I reckon they are well serviced and have plenty more life in them!?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Jimlh86 wrote: »
    Fair points but still I reckon they are well serviced and have plenty more life in them!?

    Ya to be fair council tractors should be in grand condition any rough topping or hedge cutting is going to be much harder on the implement rather than the tractor and the beauty of non farm tractors is they never see manure so the tin work is usually mint unless of course it's bord na mona yokes or any machines that have to operate near water!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 260 ✭✭Jimlh86


    I wonder will they be mad money?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,926 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Jimlh86 wrote: »
    I see on DD ganley in Kildare have ex council Masseys for auction. Would be well worth it if the money was right, well minded and all they really do as far as I can see is cut grass!

    Any link??


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  • Registered Users Posts: 936 ✭✭✭trabpc




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 Callisto99


    Anyone know what price the 2 trailers went for?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭twin_beacon


    there is another auction this sat https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/the-bord-na-mona-auction/12609757

    you would need to be good with a spanner!


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,440 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    there is another auction this sat https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/the-bord-na-mona-auction/12609757

    you would need to be good with a spanner!

    All I've heard about these auctions is that the crap is cheap and good machines are scarse and bid up to the point where there is little value.

    Anyone buy at the last auction ??


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


    _Brian wrote: »
    All I've heard about these auctions is that the crap is cheap and good machines are scarse and bid up to the point where there is little value.
    is that not the way with most auctions


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


    there is another auction this sat https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/the-bord-na-mona-auction/12609757

    you would need to be good with a spanner!

    Not at all. Straight on a trailer and off to hammond lane!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,523 ✭✭✭White Clover


    When did they start having these auctions? Was last year the first one? If so, they must have got on well.
    You would want to be getting alot of them yokes to take away, the world of scrap there...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭liam7831


    Some of them would be ok for a restoration if you had the skills


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,523 ✭✭✭White Clover


    liam7831 wrote: »
    Some of them would be ok for a restoration if you had the skills


    Not at the prices they were making last year!
    They are nearly all very tired rough yokes with alot of hard hours done


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    Are they down sizing or just upgrading? A few but if machinery scrap or not


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Could be wrong, but looks like the shoite no one would take on trade in......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Odelay wrote: »
    Could be wrong, but looks like the shoite no one would take on trade in......

    Track machines if got right could turn money on alright.
    But yad want to go through them at the same time

    But Jesus i assume their the best of the tractors....off to Eastern Europe with them


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭twin_beacon


    I used to work for the bord years ago, they got lots of John Deere 6830s in 2010, they would have been bought to replace the old fleet of mainly Fords (TW 15s, 8210s and some 8630s), and Fiats (mostly 140-90s, and some F140s).
    The tractors would be regularly serviced, but have a mix of drivers, some are good, some I wouldn't let drive a remote controlled car! The cabs and body work are very rough though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    A few 140 160-90s look in good condition, what sort of money would they be looking at?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭liam7831


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    A few 140 160-90s look in good condition, what sort of money would they be looking at?


    I'd say 11-15k depending on condition


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Going tomorrow for a look, tyres are 80% + anything I should look out for? How much commission is paid?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭kay 9


    Some of the roughest machines I've ever seen.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭GERMAN ROCKS


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    A few 140 160-90s look in good condition, what sort of money would they be looking at?

    id say a decent one of those would always be worth what you paid for it. Those big Fiats are camels of yokes and I bet they would do anything you ask of them. they would be a fine job for a big slurry tank or trailed harvester. plenty of weight and horsepower


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭liam7831


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Going tomorrow for a look, tyres are 80% + anything I should look out for? How much commission is paid?

    I cant make it Kev but it would be interesting if you could post up a few prices when you get a chance


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭liam7831


    kay 9 wrote: »
    Some of the roughest machines I've ever seen.

    Well i guess you get what you pay for, no one is saying they are mint.

    http://www.agriaffaires.co.uk/used/farm-tractor/11019013/fiat-fiatagri-160-90.html

    Be 20k to land this in the yard


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭kay 9


    liam7831 wrote: »
    Well i guess you get what you pay for, no one is saying they are mint.

    http://www.agriaffaires.co.uk/used/farm-tractor/11019013/fiat-fiatagri-160-90.html

    Be 20k to land this in the yard

    It'd be 20k+ with vat and transport etc etc but isn't it a beaut and so original in comparison. I admit I'm a sucker for detail. Them yokes bnm have look like they were pulled through bog and got severe abuse. Each to there own though, they have there uses


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭liam7831


    kay 9 wrote: »
    It'd be 20k+ with vat and transport etc etc but isn't it a beaut and so original in comparison. I admit I'm a sucker for detail. Them yokes bnm have look like they were pulled through bog and got severe abuse. Each to there own though, they have there uses

    True enough I spose


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭GERMAN ROCKS


    kay 9 wrote: »
    It'd be 20k+ with vat and transport etc etc but isn't it a beaut and so original in comparison. I admit I'm a sucker for detail. Them yokes bnm have look like they were pulled through bog and got severe abuse. Each to there own though, they have there uses

    and id say they would still be look around after all these big modern deeres and new Hollands have passed on


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Had a look at them one nice 140-90 with no starter, rough gear but a bit of a lucky bag. Didn't stay around for auction as I'd say plenty of interest, and no time for fixing up a machine till winter


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Had a look at them one nice 140-90 with no starter, rough gear but a bit of a lucky bag. Didn't stay around for auction as I'd say plenty of interest, and no time for fixing up a machine till winter


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