You may have dropped some coin in it, but at least you know what you have and what kind of shape it's in compared to purchasing either a new machine or another used one, that broad as it is long question, but again, at least you know what you now have. In my experience, age and hours on a machine mean less than the condition it's in. We have two old Gehl DL-10H telehandlers, one with over 10K hours, that I maintain and keep in service because the boss won't pull the trigger to replace them. And that's what sucks for me, I hate DL Gehl machines, didn't like them when they were new, from a mechanics point of view that is. But here I am keeping two of them going and the damn dinosaurs refuse to die! And therein is the rub, as much as I hate them, for me, as the employed wrench bender, like the line from the John Wayne movie The Train Robbers..."something to do".
