Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread II

Bazzer007 wrote: »

What type of machine are you importing & the aprox cost of shipping?I've been looking at a few loaders in Germany & Poland. There's wiggle room in the price with the Poles, not sure about the Germans. I have a German friend so I'll ask him. I tried euroauctions but got outbid on a few clean machines. Not vat registered so hard to compete with lads who are.

Im trying to get a clean telescopic Kramer, Schaffer or Weidemann. I haven't looked into transport yet.

Was talking to a guy before and he said some of the polish machines are worked hard, brother was looking at a fiat over there. Long story short, the guy selling it was dodgy. I bought a fiat here before from a dodge in limerick, decker tried to con me, anyway cancelled cheque and sent the tractor back. Really need to do your homework.. friend bought a few fiats from beaukeveld in Holland, their immaculate

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Just finished the slurry spreading before the bad weather comes in. It was thick stuff. Might as well have put out the midden with the tanker.

Got finished late and so was thinking about retrofitting LED work lights onto rear of tanker.
Seems to be 2 trains of though here:
1. Use fog light wiring in existing cabling
2. 3-core back to the power socket

I am thinking more to the latter as the tractor doesn't have a fog light switch. I'd put in an inline switch into cable inside the cab to operate the lights in field.
The D-plug in tractor should have an earth, switched live and a permanent live - so just a matter of ensuring I get wired into switched live.

Has anyone done this before? What approach was taken?

Have the work lights on the tank are done wired into the fog light. There's two LED work lights on the back of the tank. Haven't had any problems with it.

kevthegaff wrote: »

Was talking to a guy before and he said some of the polish machines are worked hard, brother was looking at a fiat over there. Long story short, the guy selling it was dodgy. I bought a fiat here before from a dodge in limerick, decker tried to con me, anyway cancelled cheque and sent the tractor back. Really need to do your homework.. friend bought a few fiats from beaukeveld in Holland, their immaculate

Thanks Kev. A lot of the Polish dealers state their machines are imports from Germany which may not be the case. I notice most of their stock is resprayed. Any idea on the cost to ship a loader from Germany. Have spotted two I like. Going to get my German mate to ring for me. Not much for sale in to NI or in the UK. Hard to know if I should wait a few months as a lot of dealers are struggling to get machinery.

This craic about not telling prices seems to be a common thing all over.

"Ah now, no need to be starting off with such vulgar things as prices and paying. We're both business men, we both have unlimited funds or so we like to think"

"Here, land up first so I can slather a load of plámás on you with a putty knife first before we go into that"

"I'm gonna suss this fcuker out, if he shows up with a black Mercedes I'm doubling the price!"

"Let me wax lyrical for an hour about this thing first before I mention a price that will send you running for the hills screaming and flailing your arms"

"I'll do a solocheck on him first, he probably has money"


One fella I worked for was absolutely notorious for sussing out. Some of the schite he'd carry on with bate all out. "They're a ___ business, they'll be trouble, break the item and try to return it to us". Other types of business he would chase relentlessly despite he existing customers causing him loads of grief.

Another good one is the lowball. Agreeing a price in principal and when the deal is pretty much over the line it's a case of

Plus the vat
Shipping
Various service and support bullsh1t fees
Tax on the tax
Vat on the vat
+ €100 treat my family to a nice meal at the weekend fee

Plenty of websites doing the above and various variations. One Dutch crowd I buy off occasionally are dead on though, add item to basket and the amount stays the same the whole way till payment. It's amazing!

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Don't have a fog light on the tractor and don't want to be splicing into its loom to add one as it is a fresh tractor.
With the way I'm doing it I can put it on an older tractor here too, if needs be.

Did your tractor have a fog light switch or did you tap into it?

Already had a switch in it and the rear socket on the tractor was wired too so no messing there. Had a wrapper a few years ago and had the clock wired the same way so could be worked it on a second tractor. What part of the country are you in? There may be a mobile auto electrician near you that could call and sort it out.

anyone running a mini digger with a hydraulic hitch not a spring or manual version

Looking at Strickland and Hills at moment.

Hills better built it seems but like my own hitch the pins have to be the correct distance and diameter

Strickland would be good enough built but its more flexible with the pin size and spacing

any other manufacturers about?

K.G. wrote: »

I ve seen two balls to crack off hitches towing 3 ton diggers,rated for it as well

Jaysus! Hopefully that won't happen anyhow .
But it was the bucket quick hitch attachment I was talking about . We get safety audited every couple of months and the last one she said either normal pins to attach the bucket or full quick hitch . But not the semi that's on it

Bullocks wrote: »

Have you to fit /plumb \wire it after that yourself ? Nothing cheap bout them

no nut them prices include the fitting kit which are approx. e450/500

roosterman71 wrote: »

New secondhand machine. Have to say, it's fresh.

You should never have bought that yoke. I have one here (not as fresh as that granted) and it is the most hateful ****ing job on any farm. I almost wish it would give up so I would have an excuse not to do it myself.

roosterman71 wrote: »

Too fuppin late now!
I'll try it for this year anyway and if I go demented it will be up on Donedeal for Christmas

Give me a shout then

Looks abit better than the one we looked over that day.

Could you lower it a little as it seems high on the lift arms

How did ya find putting it on

roosterman71 wrote: »

Bit fresher alright!
Can lower it no problem. Didn't spend too much time setting it up for work. Was just bringing it home.
Bit of a pain in the hole putting it on. Mainly the A-frame and getting that lined up. Not much space between it and the tractor. Good thing it only needs to be put on/off once or twice a year.

Yeah it's not a thing you will throw on or off daily.

Well wear

wrangler wrote: »

Same here, I hated the job. contractors have way better machines anyway

Have to say it's a job that never bothered me. Far worse out there

have2flushtwice wrote: »

does the battery isolator switch go on the positive or negative?
currently I'm just lifting the lead off the earth and that does the trick.

Negative/earth.

Suckler wrote: »

Negative/earth.

Thanks.
it's on a skidsteer which had a pile of problems when I bought it, it was a non runner.

bit by bit its improving. there's less things to fiddle with to get it going each time. I think it's down to ten now!