The Deere was removed from the jobsite on wed. of this week. I was on another site working so not recovery pictures, sounded like everything went smooth though.
But now the deere dealer is tring to say that there is $70,000 worth of damages done to the machine.... I don't know if there trying to screw the insurance company out of it of what. That just seems way, way too high for repairs, hell we should have just let it burn... :beatsme
OOOOw, seem to remember one or two comments along those lines at the time of your first post, and must admit when you wrote about running with a bucket I hoped it was diesel you were adding to the fire
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With an insurance claim the dealer will be quoting to replace anything that got excessively hot even things we wouldn't think of, ( O rings ) pipework we would take a chance on, they wont. I bet its a new cab in the quote where as we would rub it down and respray.
If it was ours and not insured ( I dont mean, me personally, I mean us part exp ops with a few spanners ) we could probably have it up and running for about a 10th of that, but then add on the labour we none of us count as were doing it
and the fact that the colours dont match just perfect but it will do for us as its a machine, etc, etc, etc.
Now compare that to your mate who when he gets it back from the dealer following an insurance claim repair has a hose burst after 23hrs due to failliar as a result of undetected damage sustained in the fire
I agree it seems a lot of money but at the end of the day whether it costs $50000 or $70000 its an insurance claim, and if you and me had been a bit cleverer
we would be working in that industry instead of this one
:drinkup
AND being on another job is not a good enough excuse for the lack of pictures, do 100 lines " poor planning leads to lack of pictures "
After thought, what does a new one cost, roughly.
