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long reach???

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earthscratcher

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if you were to buy a long reach is it better to get one factory built or one that has a aftermarket setup on it.??
 
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Hawkeye

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I had an aftermarket long reach for a 320 and switched back and forth to the standard set for a number of years. It worked great, I have no idea what brand it was, bought it from PCI in Reinbeck
 
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excavator

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The difference that I have seen is the factory long reach machines usually have additional valving so that the boom cannot be dropped as fast as a regular machine. And they also have more counter weight. There was a dealer in our area years ago that converted standard machines to long reach by just replacing the stick and boom, nothing else and they were very unstable machines.
 
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