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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    Like I said, I'm not going to stress if it's too small, all that changes is my toy budget, and my chances of having a toy budget in the future. Maybe renting something could be an idea, but again as I've said my hard limitation is what I can haul, which isn't much. Renting or demoing has been...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    I think I may have purchased several square acres of them. Loader is pretty worthless for most rocks, prybar works fine, and if I don't burn up the jackhammer I'll keep working. My intention is saving myself some serious back for getting old with, and delegating the tractor to being a...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    While I'd like to circle around and say I'm using an internet calculator or my own measurements of a irregular shape to guess weight here. Assuming all the rocks I can get completely unearthed are the limestone I think they are, and assuming a weight of between 150 and 162lb per ft^3 I'm looking...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    I was speaking directly of the 2 ton variety in response to crane operators' post. I still have many of the others, but so far I can't do anything about those even approaching that size and there thankfully haven't been many. Sorry if that was unclear, just responding to posts. I'd like to...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    I don't have many 2 ton rocks, but if it's impossible to set them up (or just push them elsewhere) I'm not above using some expansion mortar on them. Actually I have to be rather accommodating with rocks anyway, I'm sitting on maybe a foot of dirt, some parts of my small ranch have more, but I...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    Appreciate the input guys, thanks. Is it really that hard to find grey market parts? I'm guessing some are more difficult then others, and some machines are worse then others (and apparently some serials are worse then others too) but is there any way to tell if a specific one is passable...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    I think that's the ISO/SAE thing, since I'm starting from literally nothing I'll try and make sure to learn SAE (seen it referred to as pattern A in a Messicks video I think.) I was a bit excited about the possibility to not deal with DPF/DEF since it is an 80s or 90s machine, too. The tractor...
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    Wanting to get into the mini ex game

    It's been pretty enlightening to watch this forum for a while, but I finally convinced my finance department (wife) to let me buy a mini excavator. All I had to agree to was selling my boat (damnit) but I have more fun on my tractor anyways. I am completely new as of 6 months ago to anything...
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