Story behind the machine was it was run low on oil causing motor to lockup. It sat for two years until my buddy bought it and started fixing it. Now he is upgrading his rental fleet.
He offered it to me for $20k plus he will offer a 1yr warranty on all work they did. Posted via Mobile Device
That's a bit steep for that machine. If someone ran a machine low on motor oil they probably didn't do any type of greasing or maintenance, and the machine was probably abused. For another 6 k you can have that kubota. Well worth it in my opinion. Posted via Mobile Device
When I bought my t190 I paid 18500 for it. 2006 gold package with high flow. Dirt bucket grapple and pallet forks. Hours were 1000 that to much money for that hours. I would pass and keep looking
Yeah pop on rbauction.com and see what T180's are selling for. I think that is way too high.
..I just checked. In the last 6 months they have sold 10 T180's. Highest price was $15k, lowest price was $8k with 3200 hours on it. Median sale price was $13k.
$20k is way too much. I would pass on the machine, just like AEL said it was most likely abused. Its going to give you headaches in the long run. Posted via Mobile Device
Went today and looked at the machine, they were putting the motor back together. I got the full story on what happened. The machine got backed into a ditch. The guy who rented it thought he had flushed the motor/compartment out good, but he didn't and had sand in the oil pan. Which inturn caused them to spin the crank shaft. Machine is in amazing shape with new sprockets, tracks, etc.
I made him offer lower than what he told me. Once he gets it put back together he is letting take for a week free of charge to demo on a few jobs and running my sandbag attachment. I'll update when I can. Posted via Mobile Device
FWIW, in October of 2012, I paid $23,500 for my 2006 T300 with Gold Package, high flow, 860 on the clock and complete service history. The undercarrage was in good shape but she needed some new rubber at a cost of around 4K. The previous owner used it extensively on concrete so the tracks weren't a surprise. There were a few odds and ends that needed attention but nothing serious. The most costly single part was a new refrigeration hose for the A/C. I'm thinking I have around $550 in parts which has me at ~28K for a low-hour CTL.
I would also think you would want something bigger. That's not much of machine for disaster clean up. I have no experience in that really, but I would think you would want a large frame machine, something that can move large amounts of material, large trees and debris. The T190/180 are pretty anemic, fine for landscaping but certainly not for production type operations which disaster clean up certainly would be (at least in my view). I have rented T190's and found them totally worthless for HD dirt moving type operations.
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