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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1830820" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>With any thing you have to look at the cost of the product and the labor to use or install the product. Tubs and hay are good examples of that even though they are really two different tools for two different jobs. </p><p></p><p>Hay for example is a lower price up front for the volume but is very expensive on the labor and equipment side. </p><p></p><p>Tubs are expensive per pound but are very cheap on the labor side. You can pull up with a lawn mower trailer, an suv, or a $1000 beater farm truck and they will load you up and you pitch it off. </p><p></p><p>Liquid feed is another example. Might be more than hay per pound but they deliver it and you just have to make a phone call.</p><p></p><p>I ran in to this at work a few years back while trying to build production facilities faster and cheaper. </p><p></p><p>A separator package may cost $100K vs the separator alone only costing $20K and then having people come out and hook it up and it's all all the gadgets. I could have all the bells and whistles put on in a building and shipped to me cheaper than the labor in the field to install it. We actually saved money and it was faster to use the $100K skid package. </p><p></p><p>You have to look at ALL the costs associated with a feed to really decide if it is right for you application.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1830820, member: 6291"] With any thing you have to look at the cost of the product and the labor to use or install the product. Tubs and hay are good examples of that even though they are really two different tools for two different jobs. Hay for example is a lower price up front for the volume but is very expensive on the labor and equipment side. Tubs are expensive per pound but are very cheap on the labor side. You can pull up with a lawn mower trailer, an suv, or a $1000 beater farm truck and they will load you up and you pitch it off. Liquid feed is another example. Might be more than hay per pound but they deliver it and you just have to make a phone call. I ran in to this at work a few years back while trying to build production facilities faster and cheaper. A separator package may cost $100K vs the separator alone only costing $20K and then having people come out and hook it up and it's all all the gadgets. I could have all the bells and whistles put on in a building and shipped to me cheaper than the labor in the field to install it. We actually saved money and it was faster to use the $100K skid package. You have to look at ALL the costs associated with a feed to really decide if it is right for you application. [/QUOTE]
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