Nearly 35,000 hours and still not even a little tired.
Six Weidemann machines do their daily service at the agricultural cooperative e. G. Königswalde.
34,716 hours – this is the interim status of the service life that the Weidemann 3002 D/P has performed in the time between 1994 and 2019. After it first came to be used on a construction site, the agricultural cooperative e. G. Königswalde bought the reliable wheel loader in 1997 to be used in cattle sheds. Since then, it has been doing its job continuously and, thanks to the good care, is far from heading to the scrapyard. “We currently use the Weidemann primarily in the grain warehouse” explains Felix Otto, technical manager of the cooperative. It is responsible here for receiving and storing around 1,500 tonnes of the company’s own grain every year.
In addition, the machine fills in as a replacement and to help the other five Weidemanns that the Königswalde cooperative use at several locations. Two of them can be classified as among the ranks of the tried and tested top performers. A 2002 D/M with about 23,000 hours and another 3002 D/P with about 17,000 hours are among the work machines that were bought when the company was transferred from an agricultural production cooperative to a cooperative at the beginning of the 1990s.
The Weidemann fleet was later gradually expanded to include a 3070T, a 3080T and a 2080 from the newer Weidemann product range. All six are indispensable helpers when it comes to feeding the nearly 1,750 cattle (of which about 680 are dairy cows, 160 suckler cows and 870 female offspring). In addition, the 50-man team of the cooperative cultivates 1,730 hectares of arable land and grassland in the Ore Mountains at up to 780 m above sea level. “Everything has to run smoothly on a farm like this”, explains Felix Otto. "Because of the natural conditions in the Ore Mountains, especially the altitude, we only have very tight time windows to complete the work. The machines have to be ready for use, regardless of how old they are”.
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