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triple"A"
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| after a skiddy to help with the construction of an mx track. cant see me getting very good results trying to build table tops with a 35 fergie and a grader blade. looking for a cheapie will consider anything up to $10k |
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Dino
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Your unlikely to get much any good at that price, and you'd get a lot more done with a front end loader backhoe in a shorter period of time building a MX track.
Try the trading post or find a operator with gear and a interest in quads....
Or you can dry hire one for about $1500 a week.
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triple"A"
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| Dino wrote: | Your unlikely to get much any good at that price, and you'd get a lot more done with a front end loader backhoe in a shorter period of time building a MX track.
Try the trading post or find a operator with gear and a interest in quads....
Or you can dry hire one for about $1500 a week. |
thanks for the suggestions , but i've seen several in the price range i'm talking about over the last few years. in fact i'm kicking myself that i didnt buy a 753 that one of my customers was selling about three years ago for 4k. it was rough in appearance but more than adequate for what i want it for. as for time to build this little project well , there's no time constraint, and i will have other uses for a skiddy too. so i'd rather own one than pay a contractor to do the job. it'll be pretty expensive to keep getting the contractor back, everytime i want to prep the track dont you think?
i already have a tractor and a grader blade, and we are in the process of making railway line harrows, and i've found an old tip truck that will do just fine as a water cart/tipper, once i rig up a gantry to lift and secure a tank on and off the tip tray.
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triple"A"
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: hi |
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thanks dom, i had seen those, and some others too. |
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triple"A"
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| nitro wrote: | | http://www.graysonline.com/mining-construction-and-agriculture/earth-moving-and-mobile-plant |
thanks for that, gray's was one of the few sites i hadn't been to |
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Is a excavator no good for you, kev, may sell you mine later.
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| triple"A" wrote: | | Dino wrote: | Your unlikely to get much any good at that price, and you'd get a lot more done with a front end loader backhoe in a shorter period of time building a MX track.
Try the trading post or find a operator with gear and a interest in quads....
Or you can dry hire one for about $1500 a week. |
thanks for the suggestions , but i've seen several in the price range i'm talking about over the last few years. in fact i'm kicking myself that i didnt buy a 753 that one of my customers was selling about three years ago for 4k. it was rough in appearance but more than adequate for what i want it for. as for time to build this little project well , there's no time constraint, and i will have other uses for a skiddy too. so i'd rather own one than pay a contractor to do the job. it'll be pretty expensive to keep getting the contractor back, everytime i want to prep the track dont you think?
i already have a tractor and a grader blade, and we are in the process of making railway line harrows, and i've found an old tip truck that will do just fine as a water cart/tipper, once i rig up a gantry to lift and secure a tank on and off the tip tray.
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Plenty of bargains out there as a lot of repos and broken dreams hitting the market in big numbers.  You can be lucky. And you can get a severe case of broke with skid-steers. 
I've only been doing machinery for 30 years or so, and given what you have now said you're up to, yes, owning a functional bit of plant is a better option in the long run.
But, knowing a contractor who wants to do a bit of MX racing is the easiest way of getting a track built cheaply. It's a mutually benificial arrangement. 
I've just seen a 100k's worth of GOOD equipment scooped up for less than 20 grand, so you may find something that suits.
Good luck with it.
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| Ive got a 2sdk8 getting a engine built at the moment, looking at about 6k when finished, but may be a couple of months of yet. It's at a Toyota skid steer place and there pretty slow to finish it. |
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triple"A"
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| Todd 127 wrote: | | Ive got a 2sdk8 getting a engine built at the moment, looking at about 6k when finished, but may be a couple of months of yet. It's at a Toyota skid steer place and there pretty slow to finish it. |
really???
pity i didnt know sooner, coz i'm a diesel/hydraulics mechanic , and i have contacts through toyota.
we should talk maybe?? |
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| Todd 127 wrote: | | Ive got a 2sdk8 getting a engine built at the moment, looking at about 6k when finished, but may be a couple of months of yet. It's at a Toyota skid steer place and there pretty slow to finish it. |
that would be the 2J engine i'm guessing??, late 80's build ?? |
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