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    Looking for advice on new excavator

    Yeah I think I'm more interested in the lower houred cat vs the 350. We are going to be digging dirt that is mainly red clay. On our 4300 we had a 60" 2.75 yard bucket. As for buckets on the cat machines it looks like we were either a 60" 2.4 yard or 72" 3.08 yard. Will the machine handle the...
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    Looking for advice on new excavator

    Do y'all have any x4 machines?
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    Looking for advice on new excavator

    Hey guys, looking for some help deciding which excavator to go with. Looking at either a 2014 cat 336e with between 1300 and 3300 hours or a new link belt 350x4. The cats are priced 235 and 190 respectively, and the link belt has 120 hours as a demo and is priced at 257. I have a 210LX and a...
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    New excavator prices

    Have any of y'all used any mowers to go on excavators? I would like something that I could mow banks, ditches, trim field edges, pond banks, etc. I don't care for a mulcher head basically like a bush hog on the end of the stick. If so what are some good brands?
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    New excavator prices

    Well I ended up buying the 320E and d5k. They came down some and helped out on interest to get it closer to the volvo. I hope to get them next week:)
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    New excavator prices

    Yall are fine hijacking it. It's letting me learn quite a bit about everyone's opinions.
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    New excavator prices

    Dickjr those are cab dozers. I demoed a 160 Volvo last year and liked it but I don't want to buy it just because the price and then regret it.
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    New excavator prices

    I was quoted 175 for a 316e with hydraulic thumb. Not sure how much Carolina cat will work with me. This is our first piece of construction equipment other than a couple skid steers and 304.5. I like the salesman at Volvo better but cat has a dealer 10 min away and Volvo is 45-60 min away. We're...
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    New excavator prices

    Id consider case. Is the case machine still the same as a link belt? And is case construction part of case Ag?
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    New excavator prices

    Do yall think the cat is worth the extra 20? Also their interest rate is no 3% higher than volvo
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    New excavator prices

    Looking to purchase either a new Volvo 220d or cat 320e. I'm pricing them with 42" buckets and hydraulic thumbs. Wanting to see what yall are seeing for new machine prices. I was priced 174,000 for the Volvo and 195,000 for the cat. Do those seem in line or too high? Also on a cat d5k xl they...
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    Service Truck

    I want to stay in a 450 or 550 because I can get into the fields better and still have 4 wheel drive. With everything I have now that I want on it it will have about 1500 pounds of payload left on a 450. That's considering having one 2000 Pound skid if misc stuff. Where would y'all mount the...
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    Service Truck

    I am looking to buy a F450 Service truck. I am going to use it as my daily driver for work. I will be working on all of my farm equipment with it. I will move all of my tools from my shop box into the truck so that I have the tools where I am at. I am going to put a compressor and a welder...
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    Land Clearing for Agriculture

    Ok I went to look at some machines today. Went and looked at a d5m open cab with 5k hours and he wanted 60 for it. He had a komatsu 220 series 5 with 12k hours, 4000 hours on the engine and 2000 on the pumps and he wanted 40k for it. We are almost still leaning new because productivity per hour...
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    Land Clearing for Agriculture

    I think I want to go the dozer excavator route. Now as far as size. I will stay in the 20 ton class for excavators but as far as a dozer. I know all the new vs used talk but I could buy a new d5 or a used d6. I like having new equipment just for fact of maintenance and repairs. But the way I...
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