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    Which new 5ton mini??

    we've got Volvo excavators and loaders as well and I can assure you your experience with Volvo's dealer network is not one we have shared. Ritchie is also a quarterly auction, there is a big difference between getting rid of a machine in a week and waiting 90 days. no need for you to get so...
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    Which new 5ton mini??

    the justification for the CAT price tag is purely business. You'll hear operators start in with all that "Cat is all i run, my daddy ran CAT, its the best, blah blah" bullshit but honestly the machines from Deer, Cat, Komatsu etc are all about on par with one another. The big difference comes in...
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    Large rubber duck

    company down here called SA recycling buys the 70K and 90K Cat scrap handlers 10 at a time.
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    Which new 5ton mini??

    honestly cant beat the CAT, but the Deere 50G or the Volvo would be the next best choices.
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    Any body here use any of those earth work estimation softwares

    bluebeam for takeoffs, HCSS for Estimating
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    What are your hourly rates?

    in socal we're lucky to have a few different operated rental companies. 120 for a skip loader 135 for a backhoe 225 for a 350 class excavator 250 for a blade mob fees and minimum hours apply, extras like hammers and rollers and GPS are extra. and those rates get much much higher if its on a...
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    Some pics of my current project

    My company is working on the same job, what I've been told by our owner is that OSHA came and did and investigation and determined the coupler was faulty/broken. however thats just third party information.
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    Large rubber duck

    that looks like its set up as a material handler of some sort. the elevating cab is so they can see into high sides when loading. the thing throwing me off is the tires though, typically the scrap handlers have solid tires as they get punctured basically every day working in that environment...
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    To expand or not

    for what its worth, this is an issue ive been wrestling with at the company I work for. My previous company did all their business (wet utilities) for large publicly traded home builders. we averaged about $15m a year in contracts and made a decent margin, but when COVID shut things down all our...
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    Shut down for month's due to heavy rain...

    rained the better part of January/February here in SoCal, shut down grading and utility work more or less until March, which is when everything got shut down for COVID. tough times for a lot of guys.
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    One liner thread

    Colder than a well diggers ass
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    One liner thread

    “That guy is about a half bubble off plumb”
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    Bobcat E50 vs full sized backhoe

    We did the math with a couple clients and you’d need at least an 8 ton excavator to compete with a 590SN/430F/410 and closer to a 14 ton excavator to compete with a 710/450 size backhoe. A good CTL, 5-8 ton ex and a skip loader is a 3 machine combo that will keep you working and getting paid...
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    Bobcat E50 vs full sized backhoe

    You need about an 8 ton excavator to compare with a backhoe for an apples to apples comparison. IE Cat 308, CASE CX80, Deere 80G That being said, the backhoe market is dying a slow death because most people are realizing they can do more jobs more quickly by getting a skid steer and a mini ex...
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    Big career change...very excited

    Spent the better part of 12 years working in finance, made a decent living but honestly didn’t like the work. When my kids were born it became clear to me I needed to make a change as I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life showing my son that money was more important than quality of life...
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    Bladehand 101

    I wasnt working on a project, it was literally just free time and free space on a machine to get some experience. I very quickly realized why good bladehands are hard to find and very expensive. it was a learning experience, and looking forward to doing it again soon.
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    Best compact track loader for general grading and clearing slopes/brush cutting

    Both machines are more or less identical, the CASE is going to have more tip breakout on the bucket, and you'll have the option of being able to switch control patterns where the Kubota cannot. The case is going to have more torque, better hydraulic flow (by a lot) in either standard or high...
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    Best compact track loader for general grading and clearing slopes/brush cutting

    Not sure why you think the ASV will do the best on any surface, there is a reason there arent more of them out there. TR310 is going to be the machine with the most balls without having to use DEF. its just been replaced by the TV370. price youre being quoted is actually a really good price for...
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    Where is the quality?

    Those Link-Belts are identical to the Case excavators. All made on the same assembly line in Chiba Japan by Sumitomo. They get to the end of the line and go right for a Link-Belt red or Left for a Case Power Tan paint job.
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    Where is the quality?

    Big part of the problem is that the larger manufacturers are run by kids with MBA’s and no real world experience. It’s all about the bottom line from an accounting and business practice standpoint. Some analyst fresh out of college isn’t going to understand why a PDI at the dealership is...
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