Thomabear
Silver Member
Well after a few days of research and hearing all the great things about Herd seeders I decided to spend some of my hard earned dollars to purchase one. (Shipped by Beaver Valley Supply) That was a bad mistake. Apparently, when Kasco purchased Herd all quality and control went out the window along with the implementation of several cost cutting measures. Believe me folks, you will not get the quality you are paying for and Kasco is riding the Herd name.
The first thing I noticed when unpacking the box was that there was no packing. This thing was thrown in the box with no support allowing it to travel freely causing the linkage to pierce the box and get all bent to ****. This was not to mention the main frame that was shipped full of stickers without a box period. Yes, It was simply shipped box free to get damaged at will.
The second thing I noticed when pulling the seeder out of the box was a pile of paint flakes at the bottom. There was literally brown paint (not pretty and red like in the website sales pitch picture) scattered about inside the box. Also, there were stickers that had started falling off with the paint still attached leaving bare metal behind. I peeled them the rest of the way and so came the paint. No primer of any kind was used on this implement. Even the paint job itself was poor with drips everywhere. At this point my blood was getting warm.
Once I laid everything out I was in disbelief that I could pay $760 shipped for this pile of garbage. Then when I rolled the frame over I noticed that the welds still had the slag attached and was simply painted over. When I chipped away at the slag there was already some serious rust developing beneath. At this point I'm thinking they sold me a poor quality refirb.
Once I proceeded to look inside the hopper I find more flaking paint and a severely bent gate. Now there is no way this could have been done in shipping because the gate was at the bottom of the hopper. Although very mechanically inclined I'm having trouble with determining the proper angles and positions of all the bent up linkage. By now my blood is boiling because one of the reasons this was purchased was to spread ammonium nitrate which will eat this up in short order.
Totally fuming and in complete disgust I decided I better drink a couple of cold beers to calm down before making the call. When I got around to calling and unleashed all of this discontent the first thing I was told is that this is industrial equipment and no primer was needed. I was then told that I shouldn't have peeled the stickers off because naturally the paint would come off with it. Finally I'm told that I can ship this back on my nickle for a complete refund. At this point I decided to just get off the phone and drink more beer. I guess I'll start refirbing this NEW seeder on my nickle and time.
As the title says... If your thinking about purchasing a Herd Seeder "Don't Do It" You will regret it I promise.
The first thing I noticed when unpacking the box was that there was no packing. This thing was thrown in the box with no support allowing it to travel freely causing the linkage to pierce the box and get all bent to ****. This was not to mention the main frame that was shipped full of stickers without a box period. Yes, It was simply shipped box free to get damaged at will.
The second thing I noticed when pulling the seeder out of the box was a pile of paint flakes at the bottom. There was literally brown paint (not pretty and red like in the website sales pitch picture) scattered about inside the box. Also, there were stickers that had started falling off with the paint still attached leaving bare metal behind. I peeled them the rest of the way and so came the paint. No primer of any kind was used on this implement. Even the paint job itself was poor with drips everywhere. At this point my blood was getting warm.
Once I laid everything out I was in disbelief that I could pay $760 shipped for this pile of garbage. Then when I rolled the frame over I noticed that the welds still had the slag attached and was simply painted over. When I chipped away at the slag there was already some serious rust developing beneath. At this point I'm thinking they sold me a poor quality refirb.
Once I proceeded to look inside the hopper I find more flaking paint and a severely bent gate. Now there is no way this could have been done in shipping because the gate was at the bottom of the hopper. Although very mechanically inclined I'm having trouble with determining the proper angles and positions of all the bent up linkage. By now my blood is boiling because one of the reasons this was purchased was to spread ammonium nitrate which will eat this up in short order.
Totally fuming and in complete disgust I decided I better drink a couple of cold beers to calm down before making the call. When I got around to calling and unleashed all of this discontent the first thing I was told is that this is industrial equipment and no primer was needed. I was then told that I shouldn't have peeled the stickers off because naturally the paint would come off with it. Finally I'm told that I can ship this back on my nickle for a complete refund. At this point I decided to just get off the phone and drink more beer. I guess I'll start refirbing this NEW seeder on my nickle and time.
As the title says... If your thinking about purchasing a Herd Seeder "Don't Do It" You will regret it I promise.
