We have used Maxipart wearing metal for four seasons now on our Sumo Trio, and before using Maxipart, we tried and tested both genuine and several aftermarket options. We found the Maxipart Concorde point and wing to be of superior design with tungsten in the right areas to drastically reduce wear and increase the life of the parts. Not only does it cut downtime, but more importantly, after working large acreages, the original shape of the point and wing is retained, resulting in a consistent cultivation job from start to finish.
Last year we tested the new Maxipart ridged tungsten wing, the revised design further increased the lifespan of the part demonstrating Maxipart’s commitment to continually improving their products.
Competitive pricing, great products and excellent sales and service make Maxipart wearing metal hard to beat.
Due to our Hampshire based farms using Maxipart® tungsten with some positive results we tried some tungsten plough parts for the first time and have been happy with the results.
We plough about 1,000 acres a year and as we’re growing potatoes this can be quite deep going down 12 – 13 inches. On the non-tungsten points we could be turning these every 40-45 acres, however with the Maxipart® Tungsten points we would get about 300 acres when we were deep ploughing and up to 460 acres when ploughing a little shallower. We also used the Maxipart® tungsten shares and got between 900 -1,100 acres out of these whereas we used to get approximately 90 acres from a non-tungsten set. It really helps with downtime as none of us like to be stationary, it helps so much to be continually moving forward.
When Chris Pearce originally changed from standard metal to tungsten he was delighted with the saved down time, he went from cultivating 50 to 80 acres a day. He then trialled the original tungsten point with our new Maxipart® point with each placed behind the wheels. The pictures below show the difference in wear Both points have done 250 acres direct into stubble which. was then worked down and pressed and then cultivated again a few weeks later. After 500 acres Chris says he was “shocked by the difference in wear with Maxipart® clearly out-performing the original points, I’m sure I would get at least another 250 acres from your Maxipart® but the others are seriously worn”.
Chris was also keen to point out the difference in the bolt wear as, “you can still see the pattern on the bolts from the Maxipart® points, however the bolts from the original point are almost worn through.”
Very good wear rate, kept shape well. Done over 2000 acres and still going
Strong. Used to use your competitors but these are much better.
Very impressed with these points. We trialled them behind the wheel and
elsewhere in a very hard season (Autumn 2018) and they kept their shape really well. We’ve used genuine before and they go down to about 2″ across after about 900 to 1,000 acres and we get a maximum of 1,200 acres out of them.
However, your Maxipart® points did a good 1,500 acres trialled behind the wheel and elsewhere. They kept their 80mm profile throughout. Very impressed.
“Very pleased with the Maxipart® points; we fitted them on our TopDown and after 900 acres in a dry, hard season we were very impressed with the wear life against genuine Vaderstad points”.
The pictures below show a Maxipart® point against a Vaderstad Marathon point in the same position on the cultivator.
We ran the Maxipart® 80mm tungsten point on our Vaderstad TopDown in
spring 2017 against new Agricarb 80mm tungsten points. The Maxipart® point fitted perfectly and the wear results speak for themselves; we worked over 600 acres in some pretty unforgiving soils, and when the Agricarb point had completely failed, the Maxipart® one would have still given another 100-150 acres.”
We also noted the Maxipart® point has retained its tungsten plaques and its original width, and the bolt head protection can clearly be seen to be working well. The pictures show a comparable Agricarb point from the same position on the TopDown, to give a fair comparison.
There are two main advantages, they last so much better and have real cost savings. The originals I was using before would do about 60 hectares whereas the Maxipart did over 300 hectares. The cost per hectare is considerable especially when you take in to account the down time.
The other major advantage is with the tungsten on the nose, wings and up the shin parts keep their intended shape throughout it’s life so does a great job. We have had very consistent rape establishment and these parts will have contributed towards this. I’m therefore impressed with these.
In general, I’ve always been really impressed with Maxipart® metal, I’d always used genuine parts before but now we use Maxipart®. I really like the way you listen to what farmers tell you then try to incorporate this feedback in to your designs.
Richard; It’s the first time I’ve used these and have used them predominantly
for establishing oil seed rape. It’s a great design and I’m very happy with the establishment achieved. The tungsten nose and wings, the business end, held up amazingly well.
We took them off after the rape and we could see that it is wearing through the side protection plates that go around the leg. It wouldn’t stop us buying or recommending them but this is where it wears.
APM; We do purposefully design the shin protection thinner. We pull the casting of the shin forward and braze on a thin piece of tungsten up the front so it slices smoothly through the ground with no bull-dozing effect. The side walls are about
4mm thinner than our other tungsten Trio points (AMP580MXP) We have compromised the wall thickness in order to make this point as low disturbance as possible.
Richard; This is understandable, I can see there is a need for compromise here. It may be that I buy two sets and once the first set is partly worn I can take them off and swap over. I can then add a bit of a hard facing on the worn ones when I get a rainy day.
I’m very happy with the metal and have had twice the amount of wear from it compared to the original legs. I was amazed by how good they were. They have done 1,000 acres and will do 1,000 more.
They’ve lasted twice as long and are much cheaper. I’ve always worked on about £1 an acre, as I go quite deep, but will need half this now. They have worked very well.
“I was getting 50 to 60 acres a point when using standard knock-on points and needed to get 200 acres out of the Boxer point to justify the price. After working 230 acres they are still in almost perfect shape, and showing very little signs of wear. I have happily re-ordered for autumn cultivations.”
I interspersed your Maxipart® legs and genuine Sumo legs on my DTS at the same time in order to get fair wear rates. The Sumo ones have completely worn out but the Maxipart® ones have loads of tungsten left and will do a lot more yet.
Maxipart® will be my leg of choice going forward.
We have always used genuine discs before and were quite concerned about changing as we have had issues with non-genuine discs before. However we’d got on well with your metal on other products so thought we’d chance the Maxipart® discs.
We’ve been happy. First of all the fitment was perfect and there was no issue at all as we put them on. We have done the Spring and Autumn of 2018 with the autumn being incredibly hard. We have worked down about 1,200 acres and they’ve
only taken the edge off them. I didn’t trial them against anything else but they appear equally as good as genuine. I’m really pleased with them and will be ordering Maxipart® discs for my Rapid next.
“We helped out with the development trial of the new Maxipart® Low disturbance point, and we ran it against a competitor point. It was a very hard year, and both points came off the machine after approximately 125 acres. The competitor point had to be changed as it had worn to the point where the leg was exposed, but the Maxipart® version would probably go on for another 20 acres or so. Very pleased with this point.”
We noticed that because of the location of the tungsten tiles on the competition point, soil is passed more aggressively to the back end of the part, thus wearing the shin more heavily, the backs of the wings, and the area where the shin meets the leg. This has led to it needing to be changed. Sometimes having more tungsten actually doesn’t help!
We also noticed that the competition point has taken more wear to the underside of the leading tungsten tile, which won’t help the part to pull into the soil as effectively as the Maxipart® version.
“We cultivate around 600 acres each year in the spring. We normally expect to get 100 acres out of a standard point. This year we used one set of tungsten points and they would still do more. The conditions were no less wearing than normal and we used the Maxipart®wings too – normally we would get 200 acres out of Simba wings but got 300 acres out of Maxipart® version. They are noticeably thicker than the Simba version.
I would definitely buy these again.”
“We’ve more recently gone back to using Vaderstad original discs on both our
Topdown cultivator and rapid drill, due to the fact that we’ve found the fitment and wear of non-original discs to be poor. However we bought a set of the Maxipart® Topdown discs and fitted two original discs amongst them. The fitment of the Maxipart® disc was fine and after around 2800 acres of work this autumn, it is clear that the wear is completely comparable between the two. With the Maxipart® only costing 60% of the original product it’s a no brainer to fit the Maxipart® disc and we will continue to do so.”
Previously I’d used non-tungsten points and would get about 60 hectares from a set. I then switched over and got some Maxipart® tungsten points (AMP708MXP) from APM and these were very good but now they were lasting so much longer, I started to notice wear underneath on the bottom side of the leg. Then APM introduced the heavy duty tungsten point which has more tungsten as well as a nose that goes down further, and hard facing underneath. This stopped the wear underneath and I will now get 400 hectares out of a set of HD points and APM’s tungsten wings. I’m really impressed with these. In general, I’ve always been really impressed with the Maxipart® metal, I’d always used genuine before but now use Maxipart®.
Tim Walters has been dealing with APM for many years, and has been very helpful to APM with developing Maxipart® products for several machines that he runs. The latest development he has helped with is the new double tungsten point for the Horsch Sprinter, and he was very impressed with the results.
‘We already use the Maxipart® double tungsten point, and tungsten baseplate, having helped to develop these items a few years ago, and find them to work incredibly well in our very stony soils. However the new double tungsten point was a step up – we drilled 400 hectares with it during the autumn 2017, and spring 2018, and its still looking like new. It will go on and do a further significant acreage, by which point it will have well outperformed what was always a very good point, the current Maxipart® point that we have used for years.
It’s lost very little width on the cheeks of the point behind the tungsten, which is normally where it wears, and the bottom of the point has only taken a small amount of wear. Normally we see points wearing in these areas much more quickly, and then the tungsten will break off. However this new style of point looks to have overcome these issues.’
I was originally using single hole reversible points and would use 2 sets per Season which when you consider there are 100 points that’s an awful lot of down time. I tried your Maxipart® tungsten Points – they have done a full season and by the look of them will do another and then some more. It’s not just the financial saving but the point stays the same shape so the depth and width of the point is always consistent so they do a much better job. Very Impressed.
Overall I’ve been really happy with your metal “I’ve tried just about everybody’s and yours is best”.
The Rexius points have lasted really well and I’m very happy with them. They hold up really well and I’ve never lost a tungsten plaque.
The Maxipart® Allrounder points have done at least as many acres as the
genuine Kockerling tungsten points, probably more. The reason I really like them though is that the Maxipart® ones are much better priced.
We have bought a tungsten part from a well-established manufacturer before and to be fair have always got on well with these. We would typically do about 1500 – 1800 on a set depending on the season. However we trialled your Maxipart® ones alongside these last year and they’ve now done 2000 acres and still going strong.
We have changed all the original points but the Maxipart® points still have a lot left on it. They have also kept their shape much better so it continues to do the job throughout it’s life. Very happy with it.
We worked about 1,200 acres across a couple of seasons. With regards to the points, with the fin up through the shin and the increased size of the “foot” below it meant that they didn’t snap through the middle, which we’d had with genuine. This was a considerable advantage and meant that they lasted twice as long as genuine.
The wings also lasted much longer as they’re thicker and have more tungsten.
Both points and wings are also much better priced than genuine so I was very happy with them.
The fitment and retention of shape of the point is great, I haven’t lost a single one.
Although no direct comparison was done I would say that we’ve got pretty much double the wear out of the Maxipart® point compared to any other tungsten point we’ve used before. Also that’s in the summer/autumn of 2018 which was an
extremely hard year. It has really helped with down time. I’ve been really impressed with them.
They’re very good. I’ve tried half a set of Maxipart® points and half a set of genuine points. I put the Maxipart® on one side and the genuine on the other and there’s no difference at all. It then comes down to price and the Maxipart® are quite a bit cheaper. I’ve tried other non-genuine ones as well in the past but these didn’t last long.
We trialled the Maxipart® points against other non-geniune parts, as well as genuine in the Spring and Autumn of 2018. The other non-genuine did 1,000 acres and the genuine did 1,900. Your Maxipart® parts are still going and have now done over 2,000 acres. The really good thing was that the Maxiparts® points kept their shape throughout so are doing as good a job now as when they started.
Also, even now when they’re getting to the end of their life the bolts are still as good as new as the bolts sink down so deep into the point. The other good thing is that as well as outlasting genuine they’re also a lot better priced. A brilliant point.
We were originally using genuine non-winged (non-tungsten) points and were getting about 40 acres from them. We then moved on to the genuine Keeble winged subsoiler points and got about 60 acres from them. We then tried the Maxipart® points. We have tried other suppliers’ tungsten points before and have been very unconvinced that you get enough value from them so we were very dubious about taking these. We therefore had 36 non tungsten winged subsoiler points and 9 with tungsten on the nose and wings to take us through the season.
Your non-tungsten did about 25% more than the standard Keeble points – however your tungsten version outlasted your standard points by about 8 or 9 times. I wish I’d gone all tungsten now. They’re a great point.
I was originally using genuine Keeble J leg points and not getting a great deal of
wear – perhaps 40-60 acres.
We then tried the Maxipart® points. We have tried other supplies tungsten parts and weren’t convinced that tungsten was good value for money. We looked at what we would need for the season and took 8 non winged J leg tungsten points and
40 non winged J leg non tungsten points to go on the front of the machine and the same quantities of non winged to go on the back. Your standard non tungsten points ones are better, with them lasting about 25% longer than the genuine Keeble, but your tungsten points were something else. We got 9 times the wear from your tungsten points over the genuine Keeble and what’s more, once they were worn, we could then take the winged version from the back and put them on the front so we got another three changes. We therefore got 12 points to 1 when you consider the move from the back to the front.
They’re great points and we will always go for the Maxipart® tungsten ones in the future.
“I’ve been delighted with these points – they’ve been absolutely fantastic”
I put a set on and they’ve now done 1,500 acres and are still going strong. I would have used over 8 sets of Borgault non-tungsten points in that acreage – also if this had been the case a lot of the acreage worked would have been done with semi-worn or worn points so you lose the efficiency of the machine. With the Maxipart® boxer point you keep the integrity of the point. You keep the shape and width of the point throughout its long life. With 1,500 acres done on a 3 meter machine – that’s an awful lot of passes, an awful lot of downtime saved and a great job done as the point keeps its shape. Great product, I’d highly recommend them.
The Boxer point was trialled alongside normal cast 4” sweepshares. There was a spread of 4 Boxer points across the machine, and they lasted approx. 800 acres. However, the cast sweepshares were being changed about every 50 acres so the boxer point lasted approximately 16 changes of standard sweepshares.
The customer was amazed; the boxer point paid for itself several times over on wear alone, let alone factoring in the down time! The customer now purchases Boxer points regularly.
I like your stuff very much. I was given a point to trial after visiting your stand at
a show, the point was great and we’ve used you ever since.
We have a prototype Sumo “Four One”, it’s a bit like a Quadro but with a set of discs, 19 legs which have knock on adaptors, another set of discs then a packer.
We take your Maxipart® 11” Sweepshares with the ridges on and we’re really happy. They fit perfectly, wear well, keep their shape and penetrate fantastically. They certainly last much longer than the sweepshares we were using before.
I’m really happy with the wear on these. I get about 600-700 hundred acres out of the points which is great. Also even in harsh conditions I’ve never lost a tungsten plaque
With regards to wearing parts – “I’ve tried just about everybody’s and yours are the best.”
We now use your Tim Howard points and have found that they are really very good.
We don’t buy cheap metal as it’s just not worth it. We’ve tried other suppliers who we no longer entertain. We can’t afford to stop mid-season to change over to poor quality metal. Your metal is very good so we have no problem buying or recommending your parts. Your metal is obviously very good and your prices are so much better than genuine.
I started with the genuine Cousins non-tungsten legs and on my land these disappeared in no time. I then moved on to Cousins tungsten legs which did last longer as they had a tungsten tip and tungsten on the wings however they then wore through the shin and I lost the point. I didn’t feel they were worth the extra money so went back to non-tungsten.
I then tried your Maxipart® full tungsten legs. These really are fantastic. The shape holds up throughout with tungsten not only on the nose and wings but also right up the shin. They would also last a good four or five times longer than the Cousins tungsten points on my land. The really important part is that they hold their shape. As the genuine points wear, you can see the difference in the establishment of the crop as it comes up and this results in lost crop. You used to be able to clearly see how well the rape established as the points wove, with a clear demarcation as new parts were fitted.
However, we put in over 1,500 acres of rape with your leg in the Autumn of 2018, which was insanely hard, and we have hardly lost an acre to either the flea beetle or pigeons and I put this down to large part to your leg. The establishment was
so good that the rape got up and away so quickly. I would certainly recommend these to anybody.
“These have been very good – you’ve got these just right”
I haven’t worn these out yet – they have done about 1,000 acres but still have plenty of life left. On the genuine ones we were getting wear on the wings. Once we got wear we would weld and build up the wings so we would then start getting wear on the shin. I used to have to change the genuine ones about every 150 acres so the MXP are looking like they will do up to 10 times what genuine did. Would certainly recommend them to anyone.
I found that the Maxipart® Rapid Lift points worked very well. I was very pleased
with these. Although there is not a huge amount of choice out there and I have tried a few different ones and yours are the best. They’ve lasted very well and I’ll be sticking with them.
Your rapid lift points are exceptional – I have no complaints what-so-ever.
They’re really very good.
We don’t buy cheap metal it’s just not worth it. We’ve tried other suppliers who we no longer entertain. We can’t afford to stop mid-season to change over to poor quality metal. Your metal is very good so I have no problem buying of
pushing your parts. Your metal is obviously very good and your prices are so much better than genuine.
“I liked the look of the Maxipart® Rapidlift points but with the competitions product already outlasting the genuine product I was reluctant at first to try them. APM sent me a sample and they outlasted the competitions product by a fair way. I will be buying Maxipart® going forward!”
We have been very pleased with these, they’ve lasted very well. We started out on the original Sumo point without the leg protection and then moved onto a non-genuine point with the protection around the leg. Neither of these used tungsten.
We then tried your tungsten points with bolt on tungsten wings and the price stacks up. The points keep their shape and downtime is greatly reduced.
I originally used genuine Sumo points years ago but found the non-tungsten points wore very quickly so changed over to the Prolift system. This was much better but the system we adopted did have a fair bit of drag and the stress on the machines was greater than it had to be.
We then used the Maxipart® Sumo tungsten points and the Maxipart® tungsten wings to suit. These have made an absolutely huge difference. As a contractor we need to look at the pounds per acre and the Maxipart® points have made a big difference to the drag on the machines, which has been improved.
As well as them doing a great job one of the biggest advantages has been the absolutely massive reduction in down time.
With an average set of points lasting 400 acres we can get a huge amount done before we need to mess about changing points. We’ve been seriously impressed with these and have no problem recommending them to others.
We also did some spring time trial work with a new “ridged” wing (AMP577A/BMXP). I was really impressed with what we used before but initial trials suggest that these will be even better as the wings seem to be wearing better and they’re protecting the same foot they’re drilled to.
We have trailed the discs over two drills so it’s hard to say exactly what acreage
they’ve done but we’re happy with the wear. We’ve also now bought more so that tells a story. We trialled them against Genuine discs and results show the wear is comparable.
We don’t buy cheap metal it’s just not worth it. We’ve tried other suppliers who we no longer entertain. We can’t afford to stop mid-season to change over to poor quality metal. You’re metal is very good so I have no problem buying or pushing your parts. Your metal is obviously very good and your prices are so much better than genuine.
We have trailed the discs over two drills so it’s hard to say exactly what acreage they’ve done but we’re happy with the wear. We’ve also now bought more so that tells a story. We trialled them against Genuine discs and results show the wear is comparable.
We don’t buy cheap metal it’s just not worth it. We’ve tried other suppliers who we no longer entertain. We can’t afford to stop mid-season to change over to poor quality metal. You’re metal is very good so I have no problem buying of pushing your parts. Your metal is obviously very good and your prices are so much better than genuine.
“We fitted APM’s Maxipart® discs to our TopDown in Autumn 2015, and have done roughly 650ha since, running them alongside the original Vaderstad disc for comparison. Our ground is very abrasive and hard-wearing, with a high flint content, and we have a high metal usage compared to other areas of the country. Based on what we have proved with these discs I would recommend them to anyone with similar ground – they’re doing a great job and I would buy them again.”
I like your stuff very much. I was given a point to trial after visiting your stand at
a show, the point was great and we’ve used you ever since.
We’ve used your discs previously, having fitted the Maxipart® drill discs on out 8m Rapid these fitted and had wear properties like genuine so we thought we’d try your new 470mm (19”) cultivation discs for the carrier.
Again they fitted like genuine and although they’ve not worn out yet these also look to be wearing as well as genuine.
Once again we’ve been very impressed with your parts.
Tim Walters has been dealing with APM for many years, and has been very helpful to APM with developing Maxipart® products for several machines that he runs. The latest development he has helped with is the new double tungsten point for the Horsch Sprinter, and he was very impressed with the results.
‘We already use the Maxipart® double tungsten point, and tungsten baseplate, having helped to develop these items a few years ago, and find them to work incredibly well in our very stony soils. However the new double tungsten point was a step up – we drilled 400 hectares with it during the autumn 2017, and spring 2018, and its still looking like new. It will go on and do a further significant acreage, by which point it will have
well outperformed what was always a very good point, the current Maxipart® point that we have used for years.
It’s lost very little width on the cheeks of the point behind the tungsten, which is normally where it wears, and the bottom of the point has only taken a small amount of wear. Normally we see points wearing in these areas much more quickly, and then the tungsten will break off. However this new style of point looks to have overcome these issues.’
Although more expensive initially, they outlast the competition by a huge amount so they work out much cheaper. They keep their shape throughout, and keep their full width as there is plenty of tungsten where needed. Absolutely great baseplate. Even with the additional wear the bolts are completely protected with the tungsten bolt hole protection. Would strongly recommend to other farmers.
They’re at least as good as genuine if anything slightly better.
Main advantage is the cost per acre as they’re much better priced and every bit as good.
Previously I’d used non-tungsten points and would get about 60 hectares from a set. I then switched over and got some Maxipart® tungsten points (AMP708MXP) from APM and these were very good but now they were lasting so much longer, I started to notice wear underneath on the bottom side of the leg. Then APM introduced the heavy duty tungsten point which has more tungsten as well as a nose that goes down further, and hard facing underneath. This stopped the wear underneath and I will now get 400 hectares out of a set of HD points and APM’s tungsten wings. I’m really impressed with these. In general, I’ve always been really impressed with the Maxipart® metal, I’d always used genuine before but now use Maxipart®.
Trials aren’t complete yet – but having successfully trailed other Maxipart® products we’re currently trialling these. Genuine are very expensive compared to the Maxipart® and after the Autumn 2018 they’ve worn the same – so – so far so good.
We don’t buy cheap metal it’s just not worth it. We’ve tried other suppliers who we no longer entertain. We can’t afford to stop mid-season to change over to poor quality metal. You’re metal is very good so I have no problem buying or pushing your parts. Your metal is obviously very good and your prices are so much better than genuine.
The fitment on these discs is perfect and the wear rate it great. I’ve only done 500 acres on a 3m Xpress but if you painted them purple again they’d be like new. This is very impressive as the Autumn of 2018 was incredibly hard so I’m really happy.
I didn’t trial them against genuine which I had used before but I know that they’d be at least as good.
I bought the Sumo on original discs and these were very good. When I needed more I decided to buy Maxipart® and have been very impressed. They were on there an awfully long time and had done a lot of work before they even took the edge off them. I didn’t directly compare them with the originals but I can’t tell any difference whatsoever. They’re really good, I like them.
We first priced up the Maxipart® Joker discs in 2017. We were looking for a set for both our 9M machines. Compared to genuine discs, the cost was so significantly different that I took an interest but thought that something must be wrong with them. So often before we have tried non OEM discs and the fitment hasn’t been good and they’re softer. It takes a lot of courage to fit a set of 100 non-original discs to a machine and send it out in the field. I took a sample and had it hardness tested which came back the same as Horsch. We checked the fitment and it was perfect. We took the plunge and bought 400 from APM! We are just in the process of buying another 200 for this season, having no issues whatsoever.
It’s easily done as much as genuine so is comparable if not better. However when you consider the price then the pounds per hectare makes the Maxipart® leg a much better choice.
It really has performed very well and has done over 600 hectares in the hard 2018 season so it’s impressive. We did trial another non genuine leg but this disappeared in no time.
Will be buying Maxipart® going forward.
These Maxipart® low disturbance points are very good, I really like them. It moves the ground and does the job where needed but doesn’t move it where I didn’t want the ground moved. The tungsten nose and wings work really well together and they held their shape well. They also went on very well – everything lined up perfectly with all the holes in the right places so very impressed.
I got 3 or 4 times longer out of these points compared to what I’d have used before which although initially more expensive does mean that I’ve really cut my costs. I got about 400 acres out of a set which I was very impressed with.
We were running your Maxipart® tungsten Concord points before which were Good, however we wanted to move less dirt and look into strip tilling so we thought we’d try your Maxipart® low disturbance points.
We were really impressed, there’s far less surface disturbance which is what we were after and the wear properties are brilliant. They did a really good job in both the damp spring and very dry autumn of 2018.
We haven’t trialled them against any competition but have been impressed with them. That’s now the only point on our shelf. I wouldn’t use anything else.
We have trialled the discs over two drills so it’s hard to say exactly what acreage they’ve done but we’re happy with the wear. We’ve also now bought more so that tells a story. We trialled them against genuine discs and results show the wear is comparable.
We don’t buy cheap metal, it’s just not worth it. We’ve tried other suppliers who we no longer entertain. We can’t afford to stop mid-season to change over to poor quality metal. Your metal is very good so I have no problem buying or pushing your parts. Your metal is obviously very good and your prices are so much better than genuine.
Yes I’ve been very pleased with these. I didn’t trial them alongside any others but I’ve had genuine and non-genuine before and I’d say they’re definitely as good as genuine and much better than non-genuine ones.
I was also very impressed with the fitment which was also as good as genuine.
I like your stuff very much. I was given a point to trial after visiting your stand at a show, the point was great and we’ve used you ever since.
With regards to the rapid discs these have been as good as gold. We had genuine on before but thought we’d try yours to see how they fared. We’ve been impressed and can’t see anything between them. We haven’t trialled them side by side but we’ve done the spring and autumn of 2018, about 2000 acres, with that drill and we’ve not moved the coulters up a notch yet. So I’d say that there’s nothing between yours and genuine. There’s nothing in it. Also fitment was perfect which is also vitally important.
We have used a number of points & wings over the years and would say that we get on very well with the Maxipart® points & wings. These are the ones that we choose to buy and I’d be happy to strongly recommend them to anybody else.
We were very impressed with these points. We put them on with one of your competitors tungsten points and they easily outlasted it. I then kept yours on and put 2 more of your competitors standard non-tungsten points on to finish the season. These also wore through and there’s still plenty left on yours. We’ve also just put on your Heavy Duty Tungsten Prolift Points. These are quite a bit bigger, plus the angle is slightly more aggressive. I found that these cut into the hard ground easily and it also doesn’t require a short top link so the machine pulled easier. The only thing I would recommend, if the conditions are hard, is that you double up On the roll pins as there is more pressure on the smaller roll pin AGX54875 inside the larger roll pin AMP713