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Because I'd more likely spend $30-$50k in equipment. Equipment is an asset, and allows me to do work at an exponential pace. I learn new skills, accumulate knowledge and have some sweat-equity in the process. Then sell said equipment at a break even or slightly profitable price or better yet put that equipment to work making a profit in the future. It's called investing in myself instead of burning capital.
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The only thing that I learned is an operator with a lifetime of experience has some value not encapsulated in the figures. I can knock stuff down and pile stuff up, and burn, and re-stack, but I can never get the land as FLAT and SMOOTH as a guy who does it all day, every day. At least in the soil where I live.
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I certainly don't want to present myself as a great operator. However I have had my fair share of time in the seat of a variety of equipment over the years. Mostly loaders, bobcats, and backhoes. Which is funny because I usually end up using the wrong equipment for the jobs but get it done nicely despite that. I have not operated a dozer or an excavator. I do have an inclination to understanding how to move earth and how water flows. I've build parking lots and driveways, leveled pad sites. Dug footer, knocked out berms, filled in swells, fixed ponds and cut ditches. I don't think this is above my ability. I certainly expect some level of learning curve to come into play. But I have confidence in my abilities to work through those short comings and get a good result. I'm usually pretty good at things I put my mind to.
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Nothing seems like hard or large work. Personally i would buy a nicer track skid steer, cat 299D or JD 333G. They have so many attachments you can do 90% of the work with them. Rent a forestry head for taking down the trees or a brush hog for other clearing. Post hole auger isnt an issue, grapple bucket for moving trees, can even get a dozer blade for grading. Also super useful around the farm for moving large hay bales etc. Then rent a excavator for a weekend to do your culverts or other deep digging needed. Can even get GPS setup in the newer skid steers to help with grading if your looking to get something really flat.
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I have just a few hrs of seat time on the 550 and 750 dozers we have. I can move stuff and make a "road" but it's nothing to be proud of. My friend's Dad is really good on dozer, been running them 60+ years, so he handled putting in roads. Now some of the other equipment I have hundreds to thousands of hours on and I'm pretty good with. |
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Fuck you cant even buy a small house in the shit parts of town here for that
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I'm firmly of the belief that you need at least one rubber tired 4wd machine that can accept any attachment known to man and use it poorly. Whether that's a skit steer or a 4wd tractor with a bucket doesn't matter but you need at least one "can do everything but nothing well" machine. Last edited by arse_sidewards; 10-22-2019 at 04:13 PM. |
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I wouldn't want my tractor tied up just to blow on a fire. Anyway, now I'm googling "tractor powered blower" Never knew there was such a thing.
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When I look into high flow track loaders I get a lot of these ASV machines that pop up. Why are they so much cheaper than the more common brands? Are they garbage or just hard to get parts for? This one has a brand new undercarriage and tracks from what the ad says. The hours are unknown and said to probably be high. But seems like a lot of machine for the price.
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i have experience on just about every machine listed in this thread, i also have experience clearing land and cutting new roads, if i could only have one machine thats what it would be. ideally id have a excavator, dozer, tracked skidsteer, and a small dump truck(which is what we have at work) |
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I'm reading that these ASV machines are pretty kick ass, but due to size kill undercarriages quicker than other smaller machines. Which seems to make sense since most of the ones for sale say they have new undercarriages.
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Fuck mini excavators. That is Unless you don’t value your time. The smallest excavator I would ever own is a 160 (9020) size. I was using my 9030b today to muck out my wash ponds and it was painfully slow.
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We own a Asv PT30. Awesome little machine expensive undercarriage. The drive sprocket needs rebuilding every year. The plastic rollers die pretty often. We have been upgrading to greasable aluminum aftermarket rollers as they fail. I love this little skid steer for plowing my sidewalks and sweeping the garage out. I have no experience with the large ones.
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I found this and it has me rethinking a MTL.
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I think your timeline is way off, unless you're going to be hiring a crew to assist.
That's a shit-ton of work for one guy, especially one guy with limited heavy equipment experience.
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