irish eddie
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whats the most user friendly spreader to set on the market , keep hearing the bogballe ???
Depends what part of the country you are from. In the far south they use Kuhn go north and it’s Bogballe and in remote parts of Wexford it’s the Happy Dog .You Listening to the gospel according to @jd-baz ? :rolleyes2:
Depends what part of the country you are from. In the far south they use Kuhn go north and it’s Bogballe and in remote parts of Wexford it’s the Happy Dog .
Actually I meant Rauch .Is a Kuhn the Uk version of whats sold here as a Rauch ? Fairly common around here . Few Vicon diehards , and a dairy farmer neighbor who spreads a lot of N , bought his 3rd New Amazone in 40 years , in 2018. lots of Cosmo/Abbey wagtails . Little tillage within 10 odd miles of here.
@Skimmer did not get on well with his Vicon . Anybody buy one of the Italian ones Kelly is selling.https://www.donedeal.ie/view/20531926
Fertiliser Spreader
Any opinion on these,the price is keen enough nearly €1k cheaper than the Bogballe.
https://www.donedeal.ie/view/20531926
Fertiliser Spreader
Any opinion on these,the price is keen enough nearly €1k cheaper than the Bogballe.
Good memory @Bog Man !!!! We had an Ro-M 1.5 Ton spinner, unfortunately it was one of the worst things that ever came into the yard. I'm sure they have changed a lot since we had it, but we could never get the settings correct straight away, and had problems with gearboxes either corroding away or letting in water or letting out grease. Told by the importer that we washed it too much. Then told that we washed it too little. When the rams for opening the shutters seized, we were apparently the only ones that experienced that problem. It was very nice of Vicon to modify later machines by fitting a grease nipple on the rams around the seal area. Apparently all because of our one machine. Hydraulic hoses had stupid plastic shrink wrap type coating around the steel fittings, so that fertiliser dust and water could get in and corrode the shite out of the fittings with no hope of being able to wash it out.@Skimmer did not get on well with his Vicon . Anybody buy one of the Italian ones Kelly is selling.
Short answer the one with weigh cells..whats the most user friendly spreader to set on the market , keep hearing the bogballe ???
The L2 plus Bogballe we have does an excellent job without any striping and the application accuracy is very good. It'll hold 3 big bags of fert full to the brim and holds it close to the tractor so well balanced. Two little gripes I have with it is it's hard to see how much fert is left when it gets low through the glass screen as it's impossible to see the bottom of the hopper while looking over the cover from the drivers seat. The other issue which we didn't have with the vicon wagtail is that the split hopper at the bottom holds approx 50kgs over each disc and when spreading across hills and fert starts to get low one disc may run out of fert before the other. I often had to get down and handball fert from one side to the other to finish a run. These problems will be similar with most makes so they're not specific to Bogballe. The quality job it does far surpasses any of these minor complaints so in general I'd recommend it.@MF30 has one of the simpler Bogballe machines that Skimmer mentions and is happy with it.
Bogballe went through a poor patch with rust but still I know of two that era, one going strong and the other going up to last year and neither would be idle.
We've a Cosmo here, it's okay, light which is what we needed with a small tractor. Paintwork is pretty poor and not a patch on the much older Vicon we had.
If tractor size hadn't been an issue would have looked at a clean Rauch 732 or similar. Next spreader will be a Rauch or Bogballe but will be a while.
The L2 plus Bogballe we have does an excellent job without any striping and the application accuracy is very good. It'll hold 3 big bags of fert full to the brim and holds it close to the tractor so well balanced. Two little gripes I have with it is it's hard to see how much fert is left when it gets low through the glass screen as it's impossible to see the bottom of the hopper while looking over the cover from the drivers seat. The other issue which we didn't have with the vicon wagtail is that the split hopper at the bottom holds approx 50kgs over each disc and when spreading across hills and fert starts to get low one disc may run out of fert before the other. I often had to get down and handball fert from one side to the other to finish a run. These problems will be similar with most makes so they're not specific to Bogballe. The quality job it does far surpasses any of these minor complaints so in general I'd recommend it.
Also washing them takes a while as there are so many nooks and crannies for fert to lodge. I wash, dry and oil it after each use.