3/ so while I'm on a 35 HP tractor and looking at 50 HP excavators, he owns a 200 HP wheel loader and is looking at 300 HP excavators. I'm torn. On the one hand, big is awesome. OTOH ...
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4/ I might rather pay $70k up front for a small excavator than $20k for a massive goliath excavator ... and while I'm running smooth for the next 3,000 hours, he's replacing a $3,000 hydraulic cylinder and re-machining parts every third weekend.
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5/ Yep! And this is part of why I'm torn. I DO enjoy fixing things ... but I get frustrated when I want to do thing X, but get 15 minutes in and realize I need to back up and fix thing Y.https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1259817100874518529 …
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6/ I have about 12-16 hrs/week to farm. I find it hard to get done half as much as I want to, and frustrating that everything is always half assed and years behind schedule. Not sure that adding a 300 HP 1982 vintage excavator to the farm is going to make that better.
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7/ this sounds like good advice Rented a Bobcat E-45 two years ago and it had all the power I needed to build a stone wall without straining. Also have a desire to dig trenches ~ 4' deep for drainage. A 50 HP Kubota won't tear itself apart doing that https://twitter.com/HeadwaysMatter/status/1259817094381735936 …
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8/ ...but I can certainly see how a 200 HP machine would do all of that, plus stump removal, with more ease. I keep going back and forth on this. Compare to, say, 135 HP 20 ton machine with 8,000 hours ... https://nh.craigslist.org/hvo/d/portsmouth-excavator/7118734497.html …
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9/ you're telling me what I want to hear, therefore I label this as expert advice :P https://twitter.com/camoout/status/1259821916212400129 …
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"bit" ? also, looking at a grapple to swap in and out for bucket
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ah, yeah, I've got a PTO post hole digger
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