Re: I need an all purpose machine

Posted by Nat on January 10, 2005 at 19:03:00 from (66.26.133.155):

In Reply to: I need an all purpose machine posted by ETD66SS on January 10, 2005 at 09:45:40:

You have gotten a lot of good opinions, and I'd like to add one more. I have had loaders,dozers,skidsteers, backhoes, and cranes so I feel like I am pretty knowledgable on the subject. A lot has to do with you ability to work on any kind of equipment. Any thing with tracks will do a lot of work, even the AC HD4. I even had on of those, and made a living with it. I have had skid steers for the last several years and the amount of dirt that can be moved in a days time with one will amaze you. Now for my opinion! I would sugest you buy a used backhoe. You can remove a big stump with one quicker than a JD 450 and just dig 6 or 8 out and then push or carry them to a pile, or dig a hole and bury them. Lots of times in the past I just dug the stump out and buried it in the same hole. It will rot out in the future but you can take a tractot w/ a box blade and fill it in then. Yuo can dig a pond with a hoe that you can't get a loader near, may take a little while, but can be done. Back to working on it a hoe is much easier to work on than a tracked machine and most time cheaper to repair. There is a good market for a farm use backhoe so you can resale it and recoup most of your investment, whereas a final drive repair on a tracked machine is going to cost a lot to repair, and the undercarraige will cost almost as much as the used tracked machine cost used. I know that this won't be the most popular idea, but there is a lot of stuff that can be done with a hoe. I set the outriggers and take the hoe bucket and set it 10/12 feet high and push a pretty good sized tree over, then set the hoe down and shift myself over and push the next over. A stump that has allready been cut is tough for a tracked machine because of the loss of leverage, while the hoe will dig around it and pop it out. HTH, Later, Nat

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