Posted by jdemaris on October 07, 2007 at 10:35:50 from (69.67.230.61):
Anybody here ever move to another part of the country and take heavy equipment with them?
I've been considering the possibility of selling off all my land in New York state and moving to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. Not because I think the UP is better than here - mainly because the only family I have left lives in northern Michigan - i.e. my wife's parents. This move - perhaps - might also give me another chance in my lifetime to escape development one more time. In the area I live now, the farms are disappearing fast - while city people keep moving in, building second or third homes, proclaiming the beauty of this area - and at the same time - complaining about the backwards nature and lack of services, etc. etc.
In this area of New York, anybody I've known - that owned equipment and moved - had a public on-site auction, sold everything, and then . . . maybe - rebought some stuff at the new place they moved to.
Recently, we've had some Amish families move to this area from the state of Maryland. Some of them had lots of equipment brought up in tractor-trailer convoys - but I'm thinking that's got to be pretty expensive.
I've got over a hundred cars, trucks, tractors, dozers and backhoes, etc. I've been wondering if it could be any where near cost-effective to truck some of my favorite pieces - but I suspect it's not. Take, for example, an old 17,000 lb. loader-backhoe. I love them machine - but it's probably only worth $4000 - $6000. Same with my smaller Case 580CK hoe, Ford 4000 hoe, and Deere 350 crawler with hoe. If a $6000 machine cost $2000 to truck - then it's then worth a lot less to hang on to. But, the other side of the coin is - I know in some parts of the country - equipment is expensive and sometimes hard to find.
Anybody done this - or know more about the cost of long-distance trucking?
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