Berg Super B

[flea beetle]

Anybody running the newer version of berg super b grain trailers? Running lodeking distinctions commercially, and had a set of 2024 trailers where they had to pull half the trailer apart because they ran out of stainless huck bolts, and decided it would be a good idea to use aluminum ones in their place. I asked them to take them back and replace for no charge with steel trailers, but they are dragging their feet. So looking at other options if they don’t come to bat.

Haul various products from grain, to fert, to frac sand, to meal. Thinking all the rust protection they put into the bergs may give them a leg up? $20,000 cheaper than doepker steels loaded the same. Fairly similar to lodeking prices, but no lodekings to be had till July. And not gonna buy their product, if they stick me with their shitty decision to cheap out for the sake of keeping the production line moving.

What say you? Would you buy doepker no matter the price? Or take the up front savings on bergs, and take that same hit on price on the back end when time to renew trailers?

edit to add, looking at steels, as I am gun shy on going to another set of aluminums.

[flea beetle]

Obviously nobody running bergs! Lol

[zeefarmer]

Neighbor has Berg's triaxles. Whole pile of structural issues with them. And they're really heavy.

[flea beetle]

They are newer ones, after ownership change? Or older ones? Aluminum or steel?

[poorboy]

You will take a kicking on resale with any of these lesser known brands.

Castleton and Advance and a bunch of others come to mind as being a little cheaper up front and almost worthless 5 years later.

I hate the doepker price, but if you sell them before the paint gets too beat up you often get close to what you paid for them. Especially if you buy new ones early as they are almost released 1.5 yrs early, which most used buyers forget. So that used 2023 doepker seems 2 years old, but might be 3.5 years old.

Unfortunately the new one will have gone up in price. But if you get back what you paid for grain trailers, was there any depreciation?

[flea beetle]

I totally agree with everything you said poorboy. It is just hard to justify buying plain Jane doepkers, when you can buy loaded up bergs or another brand for less money up front. But I also know when it comes time to sell them, it isn’t going to be as easy of a sell. But maybe the extra options will sell them on the back end?

[SmallTimeOperator]

Run a Timpte aluminum tandem trailer on our farm, 2010. Never had a problem with it. Still looks like a brand new one, of course it can’t rust. Figure I’ll get a brake job done on it at some point and just keep it for another 15 years or longer. Paid $32500 when it was a year old. Saw identical one sell at auction last year for $52500 so value only goes up. New is $75k right now. It would be hard for me to look at any other brand. Would never run steel again.