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    Zagray Farm Museum Spring Show 2019

    Sounds good! Thanks for being a repeat visitor! I'm there collecting flea market fees, working the little sawmill, and then usually running dozer or Euc in the afternoon. Long days for sure!
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    Zagray Farm Museum Spring Show 2019

    Join us Saturday-Sunday May 4-5 for some old iron fun! Antique tractors, trucks, sawmills, engines, machine shop, flea market, and of course construction equipment! $5 per person admission, 12 and under free as well as anyone who brings in antique cars, trucks, equipment, and tractors. Tractor...
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    insley pull shovel

    I don't blame you for passing on it. He'll probably never get 3500 for it sadly, but so it goes. Hopefully you'll find something better!
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    insley pull shovel

    Hey Hammerdwn, Sorry I didn't see this before. If you haven't gotten it yet I'll try to give you some help. I'm not an Insley expert, but I've been wrenching on some old friction rigs the past few years. The old Chrysler industrial engines were common units in old cable shovels and cranes so...
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    Buying New Equipment

    Another question. On a new vehicle I've heard that 10% off asking price is a decent deal. Same apply to equipment?
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    Buying New Equipment

    Thanks for the responses so far everyone. Keep them coming! Catman, between our developments and rental properties we definitely have enough work for a new skid steer. We're open to our options in the excavator market and am keeping my eye out for a decent deal used or new. Where we are in...
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    Newer Hyundai excavators?

    Up here in CT one of the local dealers has been selling Hyundais for 25 years and I know folks who have been buying/operating them consistently for 15-20 years without a major complaint. Heck, I hear people moaning more about Cat and the local dealer than the Asian brands! To me that speaks...
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    Buying New Equipment

    Hey folks, been a while since I've posted. I come to y'all with some questions about buying equipment. My dad is a builder/developer/landlord (my brother and I work for him) and with the economy starting to take off again we are considering purchasing our own equipment to do our site work. I...
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    Pair of Northwest machines

    Man, I'd be all over that if I was closer and had the room. Try listing it in the HCEA's magazine Equipment Echoes. Might have luck there. Good luck, she looks mint.
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    RonG Has Passed

    Wow, I log in for the first time in a few months and this is the first thing I see. When I joined Ron was one of the first to give me a welcome. Haven't been on here much the last few years but come to find out he used to work for a mutual friend some years ago, so we emailed back and forth and...
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    Hancock Elevating Pull-Type Scraper

    Got the email, Ron. I'll give you a call later this week, maybe I'll drop by with a coffee and we can chat for a few. Actually ran into Bill today coincidentally.
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    Hancock Elevating Pull-Type Scraper

    No new messages...oh well. My email is acprimus@aol.com. I could print them out and give them to him at our upcoming show, first weekend of October.
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    Hancock Elevating Pull-Type Scraper

    Someone in a Facebook group has a pic of Bill in the 800 at the truck show in Brooklyn. Sure looked like a beast. Made his day when I gave the pic to him at our spring show! He says it went to a friend of his in East Hampton who turned it into a ten wheeler. Take your time coming down Ron, we'll...
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    Hancock Elevating Pull-Type Scraper

    I'm not on here too much these days, but Mr. Gibson made me think about checking in again. Good to see I'm welcomed back! I'll send Bill your regards next time I see him. The pony-start D6 with the rake is the one pulling the scraper at the farm. I think he picked up the scraper for it just a...
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    Hancock Elevating Pull-Type Scraper

    Hey Ron, I know Bill Jr.! Him and his dad did a lot of work with the Mareks down here in Southington back in the day and that's how my grandpa knew them. I actually met him as a fellow member of the QVEA/Zagray Farm Museum in Colchester. He's still around, company folded up several years ago and...
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