shipping from Europe

I would like to purchase a used European style mounted Chopper for corn silage. Pottinger or maybe a krone. I have seen videos on them and really like how simple they are compared to to our American units. Anyone ever buy something from Europe and have it shipped here? Online I see dealers listing used choppers fairly cheap. would shipping kill the deal?? Where do you even start? Al

McFadden up in NY has had some tractors shipped from Europe might ask him as a starting point.

There is an outfit in Mississippi that handles a lot of that stuff. Search on Fastline for them.

Krone. They have dealers in the USA.

Therer are a lot of US dealers for Krone,and other European farm equipment. Krone seems to be popular in the northwest.Our local JD dealer(western Colorado) sells (a lot of) Krone,kevernland,Kuhn,others. So do the Ford/Kubota and Agco/Massey dealers down the street.

John Deere had a mounted one row chopper, Model 25. Have seen them around, but not many. Ran one on a 4020. Worked okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-pXpPvmhXw

My brother may have one. One row 3 point hitch. Cut and throw kinda like a lawn mower. Used it on my 4010. But was to big. 801 Ford just right. Wouldn't break shear pins. I'll see him tonight and can ask. Tx. Or call 618 599 8041 Vic

At one time,HewHolland offered a one row three point chopper.A nearby dairy had one. Used it everyday durrung the summer to cut forage sorgum for the dairy cows. Fresh feed!

Us dealers are not allowed to sell this style chopper here. They claim it will not pass US safety standards. What I am trying to do is buy a used one from a dealer in Europe. They are very popular n very cheap. Problem is I know zero on how to ship one. Any dealers I have emailed have just as much experience at shipping international as I do. Al

The safety standards for Europe are usually stricter than the USA ? But either way shipping something into an area it is not made for sounds like a lot of problems.

It is more likely a business decision that the US market for single row mounted choppers is too low to recoup the investment ($ Millions) to sell and support a few dozen of those machines.

Are there any used pull type units or smaller self propelled units that will do the job? If you buy an unsupported machine from overseas will repair part have to be shipped by air or slow boat from overseas?

Have you looked at what's out there for pull type choppers lately?

There's nothing left but someone else's used up junk.

Only Dion and New Holland are still making pull type choppers, but they're BIG machines, needing 250+HP to run. New Holland doesn't make the little 790 anymore so there's nothing out there for the small operator, if they could afford it.

Without new choppers entering the market to become tomorrow's used choppers, all that's happening is people are passing used up junk back and forth, hoping to squeeze another year out of them.

We've got an IH 881 chopper that's perfectly fine but needs the corn head rebuilt. New belts sprockets knives, you'll have $4000 into rebuilding the corn head, for a chopper that routinely brings $1200 at auction with everything in "field ready" condition.

Sir, you will need to contact an International shipping
company/agent.
Be advised, one single piece shipment may be cost prohibited.
With an Agent, the possibility of combining goods with several importers/freighters would surely bring the freight costs down some what.
An Agent can supply the documents for import taxes
as well as duties, if any, for importing to the USA.
There is also the process of releasing the item to your custody. Will you have the item shipped from the delivery sea port or air port to your address?
Being that this would be a used item, will the USDA get involved as to any inspection required to bring it into
the country.
I don't think this will be as easy as just a phone call.
Please forgive me if it seems I am dashing your idea and plan, that is not my intention. I have had a number of years with International Freight forwarding. Good luck, jac

I shipped a small John Deere tractor to Europe several years ago. It went into a container with other items and cost $3800.00 to Holland.

707 New Holland, I know where there is parts of one somebody could have for free. Still wouldn?t be worth it. Sorry excuse for a chopper.

Al, I don't know anything about choppers or the size of them, if they can be broken down to fit in a shipping container the price isn't too bad. I used to break down machinery constantly at the dealer I used to work for and stuff it in containers. Mostly used up worn out equipment headed for the middle East, sometimes Australia or Europe as well. Used to send one or 2 PC200 Komatsu excavators out a week, many different types of wheel loaders, Lots of dozers up to D65 size and a lot of Caterpillar 140 and 160 graders. Any of them could be made to fit in a 40' container once broken down. Even shipped out a few Komatsu PC300 excavators in a 40'container. The container shipping was cheap, deck space was not. We had a few oddball machines that could no way in any shape or form fit in a container due to main frame width. Those had to have basically a virtual box around them that everything had to fit in, and in the smallest possible way. Then all of the parts would be welded, hung, bolted, cabled, whatever it took to fit that machine into the smallest square footage possible. The deck space to do that was crazy expensive, like $200 an inch or something like that if I recall correctly. Seemed like the company shipping the container would charge around $2000 to do it that way.