nedly05
Senior Member
Not sure how I managed to get that last on in there twice..? LOL
Great update nedley good to get away for a while, too. Yes auctions can get you going, Richie has a auction house a couple hours from me. I tried to buy a backhoe there, a couple times. Sounds like a pretty good deal on the 160, nice of you to not run the fellow up. Your equipment is looking real good, it looks much better when on a job to show that you care about your equipment. It will reflect in your work, also.
If you are out of equipment to paint come on over my excavator needs painted. I am hoping to get it done this spring, as it doesn't llok as good as I would like it too.
nedley, some vacation eh!! bout time. the 160? i thought you said you were buying a 210? anyways have fun
cd
$48K for that 160 was a good buy. Probably see it for sale in machinery trader for $85K.
How was the quality of the iron at the auction and which one did you go to?
I explored the idea of the 210, but for now I'm going to hold off on it. I cant move legally with the tandem and a 25 ton tag here and I need to be able to move when I need to move so I would have to get a tractor and lowboy. I can move a 160 on the trailer I have now, but I'm not going to buy anything big right now unless I can get a screaming deal.
That's where I am at as well. I don't want anything bigger than a 315/160 as I have no way of moving it and if you add in the mobilization cost of hiring someone to move it, you won't get the work.
A 315/160 will handle the work I do know so for me, there is no benefit in going up one size.
That's crazy on the auction price on the mini-ex but with auctions you never know.:dizzy