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Fendt 612 | Picture made by Gavrie Willemsen
Here another picture of our ex-Fendt 612 Turbomatic E from about 9 years ago. This one was sold about 7 years ago to an enthusiast with about 22000 hours on the counter. At the time we bought this one at Mechanization Raalte right across from the Veenhuis factory. That was because our Landini 165 Deltasix gave up the ghost. The once newly purchased Dezeure hooklift was also sold some 2 years ago to a colleague excavator in our own village. With too the 30 cubic meter container we had an accident. It was on our rather high 6x6 truck and a driver drove into a branch of a tree next to the road. That branch broke out of the tree in such a way that unfortunately they had to cut down the entire tree. Of course, the very old and enormously rusted away container was also suddenly total-loss. It folded together like a house of cards. The Hitachi 225-3 crawler crane now has 14000 hours and is still used daily, rather for small jobs and on demolition sites for "on the side" to load rubble, for example, while the main crane is still demolishing with the grapple. The grading grapple was once new at Beco and it is now 17 years old. It was Inters replaced just six months ago for a new Arden grapple. The old Beco does remain on the farm. In all those years, there have been 10 or so hours of welding put into it to keep the beast in operation. My understanding from the contest was that Beco now no longer manufactures its own grapples of this weight class but buys them elsewhere, which was the reason for me to buy elsewhere.
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