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    What's it worth?

    Thanks to everyone, I think we are gonna go for it. I`ll let you know how it turns out.
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    fleco buckets

    I have a fleco ditch bucket for a 120 jd. It's well made and seems to be holding up good, But it's not doing heavy work like yours will be doing.
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    What's it worth?

    Most dirt here in south Louisiana is wet and sticky
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    What's it worth?

    Thanks for the reply It's a direct mount ejector and the tractor is a 8 wheel articulated ford
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    What's it worth?

    The tires are not very old and in good shape.
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    What's it worth?

    I'm looking at buying a 17 yard Reynolds pan. The guy wants 8k for it,it's older but in very good shape with a liner. Is this a good price? I have a 270hp tractor would it pull a pan this size?
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    Very Green - need help

    Percmd exactly where in south la are you?
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    Looking for international harvester excavators

    We sold one just the other day... Best day of my!!! No it was a good machine for years and the last ten years it was just used as a spare and farm machine. You can still get parts for them. Take some time to come in but the local komatsu dealer here can get parts.
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    Rate per hour for excavator and loader

    yeah thats what I`m thinking too, I get $150 for a 200 and $125 for a 120 size hoe.
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    New Orleans Levee rebuilds

    Couldn`t have said it better myself.... And local contractors did bid on this job but every bid was destroyed by this company. I know of a few local trucks that started to work on this project and stoped after a few days because they would only clear $175 after running a truck 14 hours. I dont...
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    Digging in Clay

    The chain idea works great we dig in alot of nasty sticky clay here in south louisiana. We have webs of 1/2 inch chain welded in the buckets. It starts about 6 inches past the teeth and is long enough to lay completly in thr bucket all the way to the top. The buckets stay clean the noise of the...
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    Truck Drivers Pay

    Hauling mostly dirt, class a CDL. Tractor trailor within a fifty mile radius around our area.
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    Truck Drivers Pay

    How much should a truck driver make? Just a 5 day week 8 to 10 hours a day. Also its for louisiana i know this will make a diffrence.
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    Bid Clerk/Data Fax

    I noticed bid clerk is less than half the price of data fax. But data fax is alot more user friendly but it is still hard to justify spending 500 bucks for 3 months of this.
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    Bid Clerk/Data Fax

    Anybody use these types of services? And if so how do you like them? I was looking at a few, they are kind of expensive and I dont know if right now it is worth the investment. For those that dont know what they are they are data bases for construction job leads. They give you all the info on...
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    bangor logging show

    I love those new international lonestars I just wish I could get one with a preemissions engin in it.
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    Somebody used my 210 and broke it!

    Well my story is with a Deer 200c that had 150 hrs on it at the time. We pulled up on the job at 6 a.m. to go to work and a group of kids were on my machines trying to pull one of their trucks out of the reteintion pond we were digging. I was crazy mad. One of them worked for a contractor and...
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    California--Wrecking Brand New Houses

    I saw this same article on the news last night, I cant believe they would tear down house that they already have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested. It just dont make good sense, but what do I know I just move dirt.
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    650J Trouble

    Their is a recall on the computers. The deere service man comes out and reprograms thems. Maby this has somthing to do with ur problem.
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    Ditch Bucket

    That is a really good price. I did alittle research and they wont directly swap. Thanks anyway though. I wound up buying a new fleetco 60 inch. for $2700 after taxes. Why did the machine burn?
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