New Excavator

so after last month and the company added a new wheel loader well they have decided before Christmas they want to replace our one and only excavator. what we have now is a 93 cat 320 and its well its on its last leg the owners have decided they got their money out of 11k hours later so now its time to find something else. They want us to find something with either the same amount of horse power of more. Its gonna be used for everything actually brand does not matter expect sany they told me if we bring them a sany every time it breaks its going to come out of our pay. So does anyone have any ideas what would be a good replacement for that we will maybe put 60 hours on it in a normal month and a lot of the time it will be sitting due to we don't use excavators that much but its good to have one.

Sany would be a good brand to consider. :lmao

movindirt said:

Sany would be a good brand to consider. :lmao

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hmmmmm we should hire you then and let you that and let the rest of stay far away when the owner looks at the window and sees what just rolled in

What dealers do you have close by? Call around and price some machines out, for that little hours really any new machine is going to do a good job for you for many hours.

movindirt said:

What dealers do you have close by? Call around and price some machines out, for that little hours really any new machine is going to do a good job for you for many hours.

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we have Cat, Deere, Komatsu, hitachi, sany, Volvo, liebherr, case, link belt, and somewhere is a Doosan dealer

I own a new Cat and Volvo excavator. Both are great machines but cats dealer support is better. Most of the main brands are very good anymore just find out who offers the best support.

mxsledder said:

I own a new Cat and Volvo excavator. Both are great machines but cats dealer support is better. Most of the main brands are very good anymore just find out who offers the best support.

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Cat is sending us a new 330 to try and john Deere told us they will send us a 250 and Volvo has decided to take part in this since we haven't bought anything Volvo in a while and send us a 250 to try the rest of the dealers have not contacted us about anything so

How has the Sany excavators been? Reliable and good performance?

If the machine is gonna sit a lot, you certainly don't want tierIV final. The DEF tends to turn between3-6 months. The same thing with tierIVi moisture plays games with sensors and the DPF .
I would strongly be looking at a tight, low hour Tier III . Stick with that, a lot less problems. Additionally any machine with emissions is gonna wanna run up to temp and stay there for 4-6 hours. If you're gonna short cycle it , it'll get mad.
Volvo "C" series excavators are almost all tier III . A very responsive, smooth and stable platform. I can't speak to Cat or Deere . I'm sure those guys will share as well.

funwithfuel said:

If the machine is gonna sit a lot, you certainly don't want tierIV final. The DEF tends to turn between3-6 months. The same thing with tierIVi moisture plays games with sensors and the DPF .
I would strongly be looking at a tight, low hour Tier III . Stick with that, a lot less problems. Additionally any machine with emissions is gonna wanna run up to temp and stay there for 4-6 hours. If you're gonna short cycle it , it'll get mad.
Volvo "C" series excavators are almost all tier III . A very responsive, smooth and stable platform. I can't speak to Cat or Deere . I'm sure those guys will share as well.

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well I left the company due to a disagreement with one of the owners so i wont have to deal with anything they pick i think they ended up going with caterpillar but I was not around for the final choice

Good luck on your search for greener pastures. I'm still looking as well.

funwithfuel said:

Good luck on your search for greener pastures. I'm still looking as well.

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i got my old job back with another company so it wasn't to bad was out of a job out of a week