Service and Spares

Refurbishment and reliability

Second hand Vervaet 17T and ‘Beeteater ‘25T models can be fully refurbished in Riley’s purpose built service facility near Norwich.

The process is thorough. “We check, replace & refurbish all wearing parts from front to back” explains Jeremy. “Consequently we can guarantee the major components are ready for the next beet campaign and the customer is assured that it can be taken into the field and will not let him down. This is especially important as most of our customers are doing more acres year on year”.

Typically the used machines have been traded after 2, 3 or 4 campaigns and, with the company’s established client base, there is a natural ‘roll on’ year on year as customers order new machines, and their used machines are refurbished and sold on to their new owners, who have purchased, knowing they will have reliability!

Used machines are pressure cleaned on arrival and then driven to the workshops where the technical teams, supervised by Service Manager Harry Skeet, get to work. Besides component replacement and engineering, paint work is made good before the harvester is carefully monitored over a 5 hour test run. Once it has passed all checks, the machine is road tested and finally valeted before delivery.

“We have the most experienced service team in the industry” says Jeremy. “I thoroughly believe in life being all about people and they are a major factor in our customers coming back year after year… this plus Vervaet’s reputation for reliability which is due to an ongoing programme of improvement in all aspects of the harvester’s operation.”