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    #8282
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/yanmar-1401-compact-garden-tractor/20078122

    Anyone know anything about these compact tractors?
    Need something to scrape cubicle passages, slatted tank and collecting yard.
    Wouldn't break the bank, to buy a decent Ford or mf I'd want to have 7/8k to spend

    A 135 or 35 or equal would be your best bet. Tight turning circle too


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    #8283
    trixi2011
    Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Reggie. wrote: »
    A 135 or 35 or equal would be your best bet. Tight turning circle too

    Have a db 1390 here for that job can pick them up alot cheaper than a MF or ford power steering and very tight turning circle


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    #8284
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,185 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    We have a IH454 that we use for yard scrapping with a very tight turning circle. The are less common than a 135 and should be bought cheaper.


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    #8285
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,715 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Hydraulics, who needs them;

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #8286
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/yanmar-1401-compact-garden-tractor/20078122

    Anyone know anything about these compact tractors?
    Need something to scrape cubicle passages, slatted tank and collecting yard.
    Wouldn't break the bank, to buy a decent Ford or mf I'd want to have 7/8k to spend
    You would get a nice skidsteer for 7/8k and can do alot more


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    #8287
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/yanmar-1401-compact-garden-tractor/20078122

    Anyone know anything about these compact tractors?
    Need something to scrape cubicle passages, slatted tank and collecting yard.
    Wouldn't break the bank, to buy a decent Ford or mf I'd want to have 7/8k to spend

    How many cubicle passages have you? Would you consider auotmatic scrapers? Save on having someone scraping as well in the spring


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    #8288
    visatorro
    Registered Users Posts: 3,141 ✭✭✭visatorro


    GrasstoMilk wrote:
    Anyone know anything about these compact tractors? Need something to scrape cubicle passages, slatted tank and collecting yard. Wouldn't break the bank, to buy a decent Ford or mf I'd want to have 7/8k to spend


    Lely discovery scraper. 12k ish??


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    #8289
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    visatorro wrote: »
    Lely discovery scraper. 12k ish??

    Yeah looking into one but I'd say the area is probably too big. They Only financing them over 3 years too which makes them expensive.

    4 passages plus slatted tank and yard around parlour. Scraper tractor needed tbh. PIA to having to un yoke machines off the other 2 tractors to stick on the scraper. Usually gets left on the long finger


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    #8290
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Yeah looking into one but I'd say the area is probably too big. They Only financing them over 3 years too which makes them expensive.

    4 passages plus slatted tank and yard around parlour. Scraper tractor needed tbh. PIA to having to un yoke machines off the other 2 tractors to stick on the scraper. Usually gets left on the long finger

    Price up a few auto scraper suppliers, you'd get the four passages done cheaper Than the price of a discovery or a tractor. We put brackets for the loader on the tractor scraper and use the loader to use it instead of the tractor


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    #8291
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    Say my name wrote: »
    Another one for Reggie's collection.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagemachinery-for-sale/pierce-sprayer/20251116

    The nozzles are near the ground on those sprayers. They spray in an upwards direction. It was considered to be a better way to spray potatoes as it coated both sides of the leaves.


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    #8292
    3 the square
    Registered Users Posts: 695 ✭✭✭3 the square


    Any one ever deal with herryagri in cavan ?
    Would u recommend him ?????


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    #8293
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Price up a few auto scraper suppliers, you'd get the four passages done cheaper Than the price of a discovery or a tractor. We put brackets for the loader on the tractor scraper and use the loader to use it instead of the tractor

    Yeah priced scrappers there at the ploughing. Looking at c 14k. Will be next year before they go in if we are going scrapped route. Can get the grant on them, and funds aren't there to spend on them this year.
    All I ever here about scrappers though is how much of a nuisance break downs are


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    #8294
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Yeah priced scrappers there at the ploughing. Looking at c 14k. Will be next year before they go in if we are going scrapped route. Can get the grant on them, and funds aren't there to spend on them this year.
    All I ever here about scrappers though is how much of a nuisance break downs are

    Guilty of giving out about them myself but the5 original ones here are in close on 30 years. Added one passage in 09 and put in a scraper there and it hasn't been touched since. Dairymaster ones.


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    #8295
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Yeah priced scrappers there at the ploughing. Looking at c 14k. Will be next year before they go in if we are going scrapped route. Can get the grant on them, and funds aren't there to spend on them this year.
    All I ever here about scrappers though is how much of a nuisance break downs are

    Guilty also of complaining like mad when they do break down

    However that’s once in a blue moon - you might have one or 2 pain in the ass days with them but you have to think of the huge labour they are saving for 99.5% of the time.

    Plus cows and passages will be cleaner as you’ll be cleaning every few hours rather than twice a day with a tractor

    Only job


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    #8296
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Any crowd around the west that supply scrapers or is any brand better than another?


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    #8297
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Any crowd around the west that supply scrapers or is any brand better than another?

    Alfco? Do iirc


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    #8298
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭maidhc


    My current project. 1994 JCB 407. 6500 hours. Genuine machine that I knew for a long time. It lived on a dairy farm by the sea, so has suffered the ravages of the tin worm a little, but is solid out.

    I paid 6k for it. Probably have spent as much again on it so far, so as well as new wheels and tyres, it has a new brakes, new centre pivot, quick attach repaired and everything linebored and bushed as necessary. All that is left to do now are the cosmetics.

    I made the spike and am busy welding up the door frames.

    466026.jpg


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    #8299
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭White Clover


    maidhc wrote: »
    My current project. 1994 JCB 407. 6500 hours. Genuine machine that I knew for a long time. It lived on a dairy farm by the sea, so has suffered the ravages of the tin worm a little, but is solid out.

    I paid 6k for it. Probably have spent as much again on it so far, so as well as new wheels and tyres, it has a new brakes, new centre pivot, quick attach repaired and everything linebored and bushed as necessary. All that is left to do now are the cosmetics.

    I made the spike and am busy welding up the door frames.

    466026.jpg

    Lovely machine. It's a 4 cylinder?


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    #8300
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    maidhc wrote: »
    My current project. 1994 JCB 407. 6500 hours. Genuine machine that I knew for a long time. It lived on a dairy farm by the sea, so has suffered the ravages of the tin worm a little, but is solid out.

    I paid 6k for it. Probably have spent as much again on it so far, so as well as new wheels and tyres, it has a new brakes, new centre pivot, quick attach repaired and everything linebored and bushed as necessary. All that is left to do now are the cosmetics.

    I made the spike and am busy welding up the door frames.

    466026.jpg

    Will you upgrade the lights to LED?


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    #8301
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    maidhc wrote: »
    My current project. 1994 JCB 407. 6500 hours. Genuine machine that I knew for a long time. It lived on a dairy farm by the sea, so has suffered the ravages of the tin worm a little, but is solid out.

    I paid 6k for it. Probably have spent as much again on it so far, so as well as new wheels and tyres, it has a new brakes, new centre pivot, quick attach repaired and everything linebored and bushed as necessary. All that is left to do now are the cosmetics.

    I made the spike and am busy welding up the door frames.

    466026.jpg

    Nice


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    #8302
    Damo810
    Registered Users Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Damo810


    Can anyone recommend any good sources to learn about re wiring older machinery, I have a 90's MF loader and want to get it starting on the key/Get lights on it etc, currently starting it by crossing the starter.

    I havent a clue about wiring but what I want to do should be all that hard?


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    #8303
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    maidhc wrote: »
    My current project. 1994 JCB 407. 6500 hours. Genuine machine that I knew for a long time. It lived on a dairy farm by the sea, so has suffered the ravages of the tin worm a little, but is solid out.

    I paid 6k for it. Probably have spent as much again on it so far, so as well as new wheels and tyres, it has a new brakes, new centre pivot, quick attach repaired and everything linebored and bushed as necessary. All that is left to do now are the cosmetics.

    I made the spike and am busy welding up the door frames.

    466026.jpg

    Tidy outfit how much was it to put new tyres on it ?


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    #8304
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Would anyone on here consider a Merlo MultiFarmer (or similar telehandler with 3 pt linkage) next time around instead of a dedicated tractor?


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    #8305
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Would anyone on here consider a Merlo MultiFarmer (or similar telehandler with 3 pt linkage) next time around instead of a dedicated tractor?

    I don't know about spending big money on a loader / tractor but I often thought of getting one of those mf industrial loaders with a pto and 3pt linkage for a bit of fertiliser and topping alright


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    #8306
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭maidhc


    It has a 4cyl perkins. 65/70hp I think.

    The wheels and tyres were €450+VAT each. It isn't a cost I budgeted for, but the original rims were badly corroded and were probably a safety hazard. Tyres were original, so weren't going to last forever.

    Yes, it is getting LEDs all around. I put them on the 4600 last year and they made an amazing difference.


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    #8307
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Yes, well I suppose it would depend on things, but I sometimes wonder why they didn't take off. Maybe it is the usual skepticism within agriculture.

    I see Argo was releasing them in 2005. Never seen any on the market.


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    #8308
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Got this a few weeks ago. Still haven't used it as I've nothing housed yet.


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    #8309
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    Got this a few weeks ago. Still haven't used it as I've nothing housed yet.

    Well wear. What are you putting behind it?
    They're not light!


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    #8310
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    White Clover wrote: »
    Well wear. What are you putting behind it?
    They're not light!

    I've a JCB tm220. Lift capacity of 2.2ton so i should be alright. The shear is 500kg and a bale at 800kg. It should be able for it.


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    #8311
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    I've a JCB tm220. Lift capacity of 2.2ton so i should be alright. The shear is 500kg and a bale at 800kg. It should be able for it.

    No bother to it.


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