Message Board - Cricket: Roller required
7 Oct 2008 by Stumpy
Portland Red Triangle Cricket Club are looking to purchase a roller for our square.We have a budget of £1500 max and are looking for a fully working roller for the 2009 season.If you have such an item for sale please contact Club Secretary Grant Neven
Tel: 07887943621
E=Mail nstumps@prtcc.orangehome.co.uk
7 Oct 2008 by Grassman2011
You will have to do a lot of looking to get a good reliable one for that money.
Double it and you stand a chance.
8 Oct 2008 by Pitchcare Peter
Grant - try here -
http://www.pitchcare.com/used_machinery/for_sale/2430
8 Oct 2008 by Sumomosr
Hmmm...
Roller For Sale at £1850.
Grant has declared budget of £1500 MAX.
Balance of £350 donated by PP or PC??
Oh, forgot - There is a recession on you know. It's a buyers market and moving into winter - there could be a deal to be done here!
Bonne chance - as they say in Franglais.
GOGGA
8 Oct 2008 by Neil Dixon
Judging by the shops Christmas has come early so perhaps someone would buy you a roller as a Christmas present lol
8 Oct 2008 by Barry Pace
\This is a general comment not aimed at anyone above in particular but at the end of the day you cant by a decent second hand roller for a budget that will probably/possibly only buy you one that has lots of fitter/parts costs hidden under a shiny new coat of paint or hidden by the smog of a smug purchaser who is more worried about how much it is rather than what it is......... kit is still worth what it is worth, just a case of how much can you negotiate off the price....................
Plastic.... it's The End I tell you... THE END!!!!
8 Oct 2008 by jlawrence
You can get a useful roller for £1500.
Talk to the hire companies. Their rollers tend to be reasonably well looked after.
You're looking for a bomag type roller with a knackered vibrator. The hire companies tend to get rid of the rollers when the vibrators die - ie when they cease to be useful for their main market.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
8 Oct 2008 by Pitchcare Peter
Sorry to disagree with you Barry but our club bought a roller for £1200, from a dealer who wanted it 'out of the way'. He also offered to regularly service it (at cost) if required.
Sumo - it's known as the British fine art of 'haggling'
8 Oct 2008 by Sumomosr
British fine art... and haggling?
Constable and Hockney or Stothart and Pitt?
I see where you're coming from PP!
GOGGA
8 Oct 2008 by GeoffP
My club bought a T.Green & Sons Griffin for £1400 two years ago. It's never put a foot wrong.
Geoff
8 Oct 2008 by nut250
thats put the mockers on that geoff
8 Oct 2008 by Pitchcare Peter
Sumo - fine art, not Fine Art 
9 Oct 2008 by Sumomosr
Got it pp 
GOGGA
9 Oct 2008 by Barry Pace
well there you go..... just goes to show there are bargains out there then..... has always been for me that you can never seem find them when you want them only just after you have bought something around expected prices lol or if you do it always ends up being condemned by a fitter just b4 you think its a steal lol...
Plastic.... it's The End I tell you... THE END!!!!
10 Oct 2008 by jontaylor
We've a running, but not tip top Aveling Barford anyone can have for the scrap value of £500.
Estimated weight 2T. Split rear rolls. Very economical Diesel. Great on already firm ground, not ideal for very early season work.
The ciderman rolls
11 Oct 2008 by Collie
One thing to check is the hydraulics on the roller. We got one a couple of years ago for 1000euro, a bomag. However the hydraulics were knackered and cost us 2000 more to replace. Just get a mechanic to check any potential purchase before you buy.
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