[Mowing monkey.]

I looked for 5 minutes so I’m sure you could find something better given enough time but here’s a pair for under 40k.

 

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For 40l you could get BOTH machines?
That sounds like a scam or rusted junk that’s not going to move

it is doable gotta shop around and be willing to go out of state. could buy a 753 bobcat for about 12k and a good excavator for 28k

 

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40k definitely isn’t going to buy the nicest skid steer and mini pair but it would do better than non operating equipment. I’ve seen decent wheeled skid steers for $20k. That’s about what I paid for my Komatsu and it’s a nice machine. A 20k mini will be harder but if you’re looking for something fairly small and 20 years old it’s possible.

I mean at this point 20 years old would be early 2000s. also question can you even get parts of a komatsu skid steer anymore?

 

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I looked for 5 minutes so I’m sure you could find something better given enough time but here’s a pair for under 40k. View attachment 533353
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like I said it there just gotta look and be willing to travel for the most part

 

[Mowing monkey.]

I mean at this point 20 years old would be early 2000s. also question can you even get parts of a komatsu skid steer anymore?

Komatsu is still in business and they still make skid steers they just don’t sell them in America so I imagine it wouldn’t be a big problem. With the help of the internet you can get generic replacements for almost anything anyway. The Komatsu is a 2006 so not even 20 years old. I’ve never needed parts to find out.

 

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Komatsu is still in business and they still make skid steers they just don’t sell them in America so I imagine it wouldn’t be a big problem. With the help of the internet you can get generic replacements for almost anything anyway. The Komatsu is a 2006 so not even 20 years old. I’ve never needed parts to find out.

really now is it the same with the backhoes then?

 

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I would only say try not to get junk to stay under the money. Even if you have to do one machine a year, buy something that still has some life left and hopefully you can still get parts for.

 

[TPendagast]

it is doable gotta shop around and be willing to go out of state. could buy a 753 bobcat for about 12k and a good excavator for 28k

We have 6 bobcats
2 mini skidsteers
4 excavators
9 front end loaders
2 dozers
We buy new or at auction across the western half of the US

if you’re getting two machine for 40k in this market, they’re crap

 

[TPendagast]

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40k definitely isn’t going to buy the nicest skid steer and mini pair but it would do better than non operating equipment. I’ve seen decent wheeled skid steers for $20k. That’s about what I paid for my Komatsu and it’s a nice machine. A 20k mini will be harder but if you’re looking for something fairly small and 20 years old it’s possible.

How many hours
What kinda problems are coming up soon that will be costly
How much are you actually using that daily?

we sold a 763 two years ago for 28 , which we nick named barely bobcat , because it was barely adequate
any decent skidsteer is going to be mid 40s rn
Unless you doing it in a barn in West Virginia or know a guy who knows a guy

 

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I would only say try not to get junk to stay under the money. Even if you have to do one machine a year, buy something that still has some life left and hopefully you can still get parts for.

I want the excavator first I found a decent yanmar in the next state over for 32 so might take a drive to go look than the loader. I know less about skid steers than I do excavators so at least after I have one I can start my research on a skid

 

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We have 6 bobcats
2 mini skidsteers
4 excavators
9 front end loaders
2 dozers
We buy new or at auction across the western half of the US

if you’re getting two machine for 40k in this market, they’re crap

I wish North Carolina still had a Ritchie brothers auction but they don't. I'm going to the farm show so ill be talking to the dealers up there

 

[TPendagast]

I wish North Carolina still had a Ritchie brothers auction but they don't. I'm going to the farm show so ill be talking to the dealers up there

Weird we have Ritchie bros here
Don’t think I realized they are nation wide
We get rid of old ragged out stuff there you can’t sell privately easy.
We don’t buy anything there.
We do get some trucks from forest service or fema auctions

 

[Mowing monkey.]

How many hours
What kinda problems are coming up soon that will be costly
How much are you actually using that daily?

we sold a 763 two years ago for 28 , which we nick named barely bobcat , because it was barely adequate
any decent skidsteer is going to be mid 40s rn
Unless you doing it in a barn in West Virginia or know a guy who knows a guy

The Komatsu has 1900 hours, and it’s a 9500 pound machine with 88 hp. A lot bigger than the 763 bobcat. The Komatsu is basically a jobsite wheelbarrow it’s not logging a ton of runtime. My 2017 Kubota SVL75-2 blew a head gasket at 1100 hours and cost over 2k to repair. And that’s letting a 3rd party mechanic do the work. The dealer would likely be 2x that price. Even if the Komatsu were to suffer the same problem which it hasn’t the labor to repair would be drastically less. Just because a machine is older doesn’t make it a pile of junk. The Komatsu needs a new seat and the tires foam filled because they leak. Beyond that it’s in perfect mechanical shape. All the pins are tight, no hydraulic leaks and no engine or transmission problems.

 

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Weird we have Ritchie bros here
Don’t think I realized they are nation wide
We get rid of old ragged out stuff there you can’t sell privately easy.
We don’t buy anything there.
We do get some trucks from forest service or fema auctions

we got iron planet but beyond that no real auction houses

 

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did end up going to the farm show and talking to the Volvo people and I actually really liked the cab and everything was 45k for ec35d then add 5k for thumb and another 5k for a cab. I went last year and the sany was priced at 45 to yanmar was at 50 for open cab and thumb and then I dint talk to much more dealers saw kioti makes a skid steer and a zero turn mower now