Re: I need an all purpose machine

Posted by Jonboy on January 10, 2005 at 15:25:32 from (64.91.165.148):

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

I'd have to agree with some of the others that simply hiring this done would be easier, and also the best way to make sure you end up good results. Sounds to me like your looking for a medium sized crawler, but with just $10,000, you're likey to end up with a piece of junk. The one you mentioned looking at the guy is still using, and sounds like he has use for it, so I'd have to wonder why he wants to get rid of it?.
It would be a whole lot easier and probably cheaper to just hire somebody with the correct equipment to do it all quickly and efficently and be done with it. Either you and your little Ford, or a logger and a skidder to clear the trees, then have a dozer come in a clean off the stumps, then have a backhoe/trackhoe to come in and dig your pond. They'd probably have everything done by spring and you'd end up with a professional job. Most of these guys are very reasonable as there are alot of people out there with skidders, dozers, backhoes/trackhoes, and all trying to make a living doing what they do best, but because there are so many people trying to do the same thing, that means cheap rates for their customers, yeah they may get $35-$50 an hour( may be alittle more now since I haven't had any backhoe work done recently), but look at the cost of buying a machine that turns out to be junk. Lets see, if you had to replace that $2,700 part that he just did, you could have hired someone for $50 an hour, and had 54 hours of work done for that price, then if you had figured in the $4,800 price of the machine, you could hire someone for 150 hours, then if anything else went wrong, then thats even more money. and if you were to spend the whole $10,000, that would buy you 200hrs worth of hired work at $50 an hour, and others have already pointed out that good operators can do many many times more than a greenhorn in a given amount of time, and if it breaks, then it's their problem and not yours. Thats what others have been trying to point out to you.
Hope this helps

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