Moisture Tester
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Topic: Moisture Tester
Posted By: BART
Subject: Moisture Tester
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2020 at 7:08pm
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Are the Dickey-John Moisture testers a good unit I am talking the $100.00 Dollar Range Thanks Bart |
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2020 at 7:54pm
| They used to be. We sold a lot of them in the 70's at the local Coop. |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 6:41am
No Get a Dole 400 or a midsize GAC cheap tester aren’t worth more than a tire shock ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
BART wrote:Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 6:50am
| We have the ~400$ Dickey-John tester for grain and I have always thought it was reliable, get the same readings as the elevator. I would think the cheaper one should be ok with less functions? I just have a Vermeer stick tester for hay. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 10:21am
| We have had a Dickey John M - 3G for...IDK, 10 years or more? I don’t remember the price. Guess that means I’m not much help. But FWIW, I always thought it does ok. Reads very close to what the elevator says, and you can easily bias the reading if there’s a consistent offset. |
Posted By: BART
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 11:06am
| Thanks Everyone!! |
Posted By: garden_guy
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 11:11am
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Ah, DJ, I used to work there over a decade ago... The mini-GAC was pretty good as I recall but they were several hundred dollars. |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 1:35pm
GACs aren’t cheap I bought mine with issues and had a factory redo on it. New they are $3000 plus. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |