the farmhand rep was in the yard the other day, he was saying that their tines seemed to be better than the oem ones as they had a contractor who had three of his tips (farmhands ones) snap off, he called the dealer who called my rep and told him they had broke,
in the same sentence he said to send down a full set for the same contractor.
he thought he was going to get bulled about them breaking but
it turns out that the contractor fitted all new metal (oem ones) and three of fastparts ones,
after ploughing some quantity of acres (i dont know how many) the oem tips wore more than the spurious ones, when he sat the plough down on the concrete the weight of her snapped the proud ones which hadnt wore as much.
so he changed to the farmhand ones.
now i know nout about ploughs so forgive me if the terminology is a bit out, but thats the jist of the story.