ECE spearders

[jcb4cxkid]

has any one heard of these because the contractor that did the spearding here has two of them and they are owned by the marston group

[Powerstarâ„¢]

Yes, speak to Gav about ECE's he ran them on Renaults I think  \

[jcb4cxkid]

thanks i was just wondering how popluar they are

[Powerstarâ„¢]

Quite popular with contractors I believe, always see them used for poultry spreading.

[jcb4cxkid]

thats a change i never seen them up here before  \

[NewHolland2]

ECE's have been and still are popular with some contractors around here......The LowLine is the most popular model around here......

[Gav836]

ECE were originally a firm local to me here in Norfolk until they were aquired by the MAS group. They are basically a rip off of the Bunnings Lowlander machine (hence the Lowline name), a member of Bunnings senior team went and worked for them and basically copied Bunnings designs.

They aren't a bad spreader but they do not have the build quality of the Bunnings originals and use cheaper gearboxes which are prone to failure, they were cheaper to purchase than a Bunnings too. On average one a week out of the 6 where I worked would go down with some sort of mechanical problem. There are still several about and it is because of the cost and the ability to spread everything that they were popular, Richard Western spreaders are not as good as certain types of muck hang up in them, the two Westerns where I worked were kept as back ups more often than not, due to the reliability (or lack of) of the ECE ones there was usually one of them out in the field. The contractor in question spreads half a million tonnes of turkey litter a year plus general manure as well, usually just through the 6 spreaders.

[jcb4cxkid]

thanks gav for the info and nh2

[NIGEL FORD]

Are they anything to do with the ECON sidespreaders that were around when that style first came out like the WEST Dualspread?

[Powerstarâ„¢]

I'm not sure Nigel, probably not, these are big rear discharge sort of 12-16 tonne models.