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  1. Vicon will have a mounted sprayer prototype model on their stand from the companyh that made the KV plough and Optima drill
  2. Its been a while but I've re done my list at the beginning of this post - it shows all the available models not all the box types - so its ideal for people like me who displays and is not concerned with the box styles. With help of ATTE's site I have a complete list with different box types included but its well over 300 now!!!
  3. Think we have cracked it now Underhaug when it was a separate company didn't have a distribution for their newly designed wrapper in the UK so they sold it through Volac as a distribution agent. When KV came along they gave them a couple of years to continue whilst they took over then Volac made their own with Dowdeswell. Hope this helps
  4. Now I think you might be getting nearer with the Underhaug brand - I can probably resolve this further now, as you probably guessed I work for Kv group and also the Greenland group before. I can speak to a colleague of mine who worked with Underhaug and find out the tie up with this brand. Ironically the wrappers have been moved to the old PZ factory in Holland now and built with the Vicon branded machines and the Vicon Balers. Vicon and Kv do hold many Patents in the industry as they feel they need to lead rather than follow - this can cause problems at the beginning as development time is a lot longer for us than a company that copies a design once established. What we could find is that Volac were and still are very big suppliers of the plastic film and the best way for Underhaug to establish a wrapper would be to introduce it through a film supplier first. Volac would promote it to improve forage quality and diet against the use of bags which were used at this time?
  5. Sorry to disagree but Taarup weren't part of the Greeland group, Greenland was made up of PZ, Vicon, Deutz Fahr (Machinery) and Rivierre Casalis. Your right that Greenland were purchased in '98 but Kverneland purchased underhaug in '86, Taarup in '93 who were a sole owned company at this point, Accord in '96, Silo wolff in '97, Rau in '98 and three main vinyard companies in 2000/01 the Volac machine was built in Norfolk at Dowdeswell for Volac - the only tie up Dowdeswell had with Vicon/KV is they used to build a lot of the SKH products and MF/vicon drills but this was stopped when KV came along The Dowdeswell Norfolk site was opened up to a lot of companies to assemble machines there such as the pearson harvesters. Dowdeswell then bought the Volac rights and manufactured themselves until Norfolk site was closed for development and the wrapper range sold to Astwell augers and the tandem axle machine was then imported by Astwell to give them a twin sat machine as the demand in the UK was increasing. The only reason I beleive Britains changed the model to a KV machine is there not true to the original so changing a sticker was a cheap way of making more money as all turntable wrappers looked the same at this point.
  6. Not to confuse things but Kverneland didn't buy Volac/dowdeswell, a company called astwell augers purchased them on the A14 near Huntingdon. They then complemented the range with a tandem axle twin sat wrapper. Unfortunatly they wern't that suscessful with wrappers and seem to have died off. Kv wrappers at that time were built in demark but now are built in the Vicon baler factory in Holland.
  7. The UK site is as follows Vicon.eu/uk - it has different machines on it such as the new hedge trimmers and sprayers but not the drills and cultivation as they are not sold in the uk anymore.
  8. A new website link has been created www.vicon.eu
  9. I''ll be there on both days, Johnson Bros, Stalham and B W Mack Stands
  10. Don't shoot me down for it but.. To me it looks like a double acting hose to lift and lower - the hoses are coiled up on top of the machine so you can unwrap them and they will reach the tractor model...at a guess
  11. Around Leighton buzzard is difficult - any Amazone dealer would be worth a try but your nearest dealer towards the east would probably be TNS at newmarket - I don't cover the west so I can't help - can't olivers still get parts? happy hunting.
  12. http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=10923.msg183887#msg183887 This is a link on this forum with the list so far ( abit behind as I haven't done it for a while) The models highlighted as limited, have the qty printed on the bottom of the model. There were a lot of machines classed as limited but these were limited runs so have no qty writen on the bottom. There usually models produced for manufacturers only, such as some of the Valtra were produced only in certain colours for general release. hope this helps
  13. I agree, 80hp tractor is about all you need to know - for 10 acres hours aren't a problem just check for possible leaks, hydraulics that drop with weight on the linkage (bad for mowers) and see if you can use the controls easily enough whilst using it (you don't want a tractor you hate driving after an hour) - There are plenty of tractors all makes and models out there. Good luck in you hunt!
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