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What model amazone is it . Use a amazone in work and get on fine with it .Ask the brother his opinion on it next time ye meet. Be prepared for colourful language on it . He hated it.
What model amazone is it . Use a amazone in work and get on fine with it .Ask the brother his opinion on it next time ye meet. Be prepared for colourful language on it . He hated it.
Your asking me a tough one there. Would zax or zam sound right?.What model amazone is it . Use a amazone in work and get on fine with it .
Your asking me a tough one there. Would zax or zam sound right?.
Usually it happens the other way, lads move to an Amazone and then move back to what they had, I always thought the Amazone was a bad shape for washing out, too many hidden angles and corners, Vicon here in the early days and it's been 2 Rauch since, both bought S/H and only changed for more capacity, the only thing I have against the present one is it holds a small bit of fertilizer at the end so never empties out fully, not a problem until the last fill of the day.Zax would be what i use more basic machine zam would be fancier spec i`d say . Now what i will say is it can be a bitch to set up but once youve a few ton through it each year you`ll have the settings good enough for grass land work . Local tillage lad always had amazone and changed to bogballe few yrs back . Kept the bogballe 3yrs and went back to amazone . Could`nt get on with the bogballe at all . Just didnt like it .
My old Abbey wagtail has finally had it after 22 years,that Vicon I linked to previously just caught my eye because the price seemed keen enough with anything else in a one ton capacity with cover costing in or around €6k,expensive for what they are imo.
Spreading a lot of high ground so anything with a split hopper isn’t ideal.
New Abbey wagtail is €2600 cover adds another €1k.
Cosmo is some bit cheaper again.
Only issue l had was those silly plastic nuts on the vanes. The threads wear if your changing settings a lot and then they can start moving about on their own with obvious bad consequences.Amazone ZAM here. Very easy to calibrate, get setting off app, do a drop test if you want very accurate application rate, adjust setting based on calibration disc supplied and always kept in toolbox in cab. Spread pattern adjusted by moving vanes on the discs, again the app will tell you where to set them, or if you just use the generic settings in the book spread pattern will be acceptable. Only issues i’ve had have been due to my mistakes, or occasionally I have seen vane settings in the app which are wrong
That mechanic is spot on in what he says,the first set of bearings must have lasted ten years or more in mine ,after that it needed a set or more every year.Delaney s, who had that ad up , had a new Vicon wagtail , which would hold something like 24 cwt , using an extension , for €4200 , this time last year.
A man locally bought one of them , trading an 8 yr old similar enough model . He does a huge amount of contract spreading for farmers with it. Uses a 5612 MF. @diesel power Would know who I mean.
A mechanic once told me that an Abbey/Cosmo will do x acres before needing a set of bearings. When it needs the 2nd set , it will be worn out.
A Vicon will do 2x or maybe 3x before needing bearings , and no wear on shafts then.
All depends on whether the operator wears out a grease gun , or not .:rolleyes2:
Nuts on mine are stainless from day one, 2013 machine I thinkOnly issue l had was those silly plastic nuts on the vanes. The threads wear if your changing settings a lot and then they can start moving about on their own with obvious bad consequences.
Changed mine to stainless steel nuts after learning that lesson.
Same machine here, couldnt fault it but not overworked. Was worried when no-one was mentioning the grand in the discussionView attachment 62529 A sulky here for the last 3 years. Im happy with it . Had a 20 year old half ton amazone before that which had gone rotten at the bottom but she didnt owe us a penny. Needed a bigger hopper and the sulky came in cheaper than a new amazone. Was out spreading urea today .
My old Abbey wagtail has finally had it after 22 years,that Vicon I linked to previously just caught my eye because the price seemed keen enough with anything else in a one ton capacity with cover costing in or around €6k,expensive for what they are imo.
Spreading a lot of high ground so anything with a split hopper isn’t ideal.
New Abbey wagtail is €2600 cover adds another €1k.
Cosmo is some bit cheaper again.
Delaney s, who had that ad up , had a new Vicon wagtail , which would hold something like 24 cwt , using an extension , for €4200 , this time last year.
A man locally bought one of them , trading an 8 yr old similar enough model . He does a huge amount of contract spreading for farmers with it. Uses a 5612 MF. @diesel power Would know who I mean.
A mechanic once told me that an Abbey/Cosmo will do x acres before needing a set of bearings. When it needs the 2nd set , it will be worn out.
A Vicon will do 2x or maybe 3x before needing bearings , and no wear on shafts then.
All depends on whether the operator wears out a grease gun , or not .:rolleyes2:
Having fert left in one side isn't just down to settings,I've a fair few fields that slope and cause this.
Only had 3 spreaders here over the past 50 yrs .first was a amazone .great machine lasted as the frontline machine until the late 80s.nxt up was a bredal that lasted until 5 yrs ago running a rauch 3t weight cell machine now .all were good machines .our old amazone is in the showroom at farmhand. Don't like the new amazones brother in law has one and has a love hatell relationship with it.happy out with the rauch here but having acculator trouble
I think it was a ton Cosmo not sure tbh I was only half listening,Clonmel covers were doing about €200 I think.Is that for the 1.25t Cosmo with hydraulic shutoff? I think we gave €2600 for ours two years ago now. The Abbey has a horrendous cover in my book, it looks like a dust bin cover , there was some crowd doing covers for around €300 ?? .
I think it was a ton Cosmo not sure tbh I was only half listening,Clonmel covers were doing about €200 I think.
Not sure,I mustn’t have been listening at all :rolleyes2:I'd say that price is without hydraulic shut off so :sweat:
Not sure,I mustn’t have been listening at all :rolleyes2: