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Rifles don’t cost thousands and thousands to fix and for maintenance and insurance.That's like saying to save the money and rent a rifle instead of having your own.
Do you know if that was done through Terrain2 or Terrainator?View attachment 283995
A friend did a print on his 3d printer of the property in Colorado for me. The color changes for each 100 feet of elevation. You can see the property line etched in as well. I think this helps show that the property is pretty steep. I own pretty much all the higher stuff, the low valley on the bottom right isn't mine.
I wouldn’t be using the excavator on the steep stuff but would be selectively picking out some of the flatter spots (mainly ridges and saddles) and doing the pinion/juniper abatement there to allow for more usable forage for wildlife.
The trucks that I have hired recently have been around around $135-140/hr. If you figure a 700 mile round trip @ 60 mph thats 11.66 hrs X $140/hr =$1633 plus load and unload time. Doesnt seam too far out.Just did an online quick quote at it was a little more expensive than I thought. $2,500 for 350 miles one way for a 20,000 pound load.
Hadn’t checked. I don’t carry insurance on my tractor or my travel trailer but those aren’t worth near as much as this would be. I checked on insurance for my tractor and I think as long as it is at my house it is covered by my homeowners insurance but not positive. For sure something to check out. Would for sure have to get insurance if we did any work for anyone else.How much will the insurance policy cost you a year?
Not sure. I gave him the htmz? from goggle earth and he printed it. I’ll ask him what he used.Do you know if that was done through Terrain2 or Terrainator?
I like the way he did the election in colored increments, I'm going have to try this now
I would be buying in Texas. I have an agriculture use exemption for sales tax that I can use. Thanks for the tip on the E60, I’ve seen a few of those around, the only negative is that even with the jump in everything else I think the auxiliary hydraulic flow is still only 20 gpm on it.I’m the manager of a Bobcat dealer here in Helena. Great rebates or financing terms till the end of August. I will say this though, I havent seen anyone come back and say they bought too big of a machine. If you like the specs and price of a E50, check out the differences for an E60. Cliff notes, huge jump in over the side weight, larger cab, and work lights. Price difference between a 50 and a 60 isnt very much.
Also if buying from a dealer, doesnt CO have sales tax? We dont in MT….
I am the General Manager at Mongo Attachments. We sell mulching heads for machines in that size class. Shoot me a message if you want some more info or to discuss.Okay. I'm looking hard at buying a 4 to 6 ton excavator and a mulching head for it. I had been looking at a skid steer setup with a mulching head but I already have a 55hp tractor and think an excavator would be way more useful for other things around than a skid steer would be. Also on my property in Colorado I think an excavator would get around on the steeper slopes better than a skid steer would.
I'm looking at a setup like this -or this -
I've been looking at a lot of brands of excavators and mulching heads and seems like really most of them are pretty good. If I went out and bought new right now I think I would get a Takeuchi TB260 and a Fecon FMX36 mulcher head. The Takeuchi seems to do really well in most other areas but it has the best auxiliary hydraulic flow out of that range of machines. I am looking to limit myself to a 5.5 ton excavator because that would be about the biggest I could haul with my 3/4 ton pickup and I would like to be able to move it between properties by myself without having to hire it out every time I wanted to move it. I like a lot of the features of the bobcat E50 but it's auxiliary hydraulic flow is only 20 gpm compared to 27 gpm on the Takeuchi.
Of course I would be looking to find a gently used 5 or 6 year old machine with under 2,000 hours on it instead of buying new so I might have to alter my wish list a little. I think I would probably end up buying the mulcher head new, they run right around $20,000 for most of the brands in that size range.
This is something that is most likely going to be a year+ long process on making this decision but I've been looking around and if the perfect machine dropped in my lap at a great price I would probably pull the trigger earlier.
For sure would end up with a thumb on the excavator and a couple different buckets and I think I could find a lot of different things to use it for.
One other thing that I've been looking at that seems to be a variable on the different machines is the blade. Some of them the blade is strictly and up and down and that is it, several add a angle feature and there are a few that go all the way with the full 6 way dozer blade with the angle and tilt. That seems like it would be nice, but I think the 4 way blade would probably be good enough.
I figured there are probably some folks on here with a lot more experience with equipment like that than me and might have some good insights. It seems like the gently used market is pretty good right now for a buyer, I've been reading that it might drop a little more in 2024 but that's all speculation.
Oh well, I've been looking around for a while now and thought I would throw this out there to see where the hunttalk world might steer me.
Okay. It looks like I read that wrong. As long as I keep the GVWR of the truck and trailer is under 26,000lbs then I'm good.
So maybe I should switch my thinking more toward a 4 ton excavator and a 14,000lb GVWR trailer. I think I would be good then.
Thanks. The sticker on my door with the diesel shows the truck at 10,850 GVWR so that would limit me to a 15,000 GVWR trailer. I couldn't remember ever seeing any 15,000 GVWR trailers but there actually are a few out there according to the Google machine. Not sure how a trailer with 2 - 7,000lb axles can be 15,000 GVWR but that's what they are showing on the rating. Most of them look to weigh in the 3,000lb range empty so that would actually give me a tiny bit of breathing room with a 4 ton machine (since most of the 4 ton machines actually weigh closer to 4.5 tons).I haul a 4 ton mini (Cat 304E2) on a 15900 GVWR trailer, puts me at 25,900 lb rated capacity with the truck.
I do this/similar work in CO, if it's not going to end up doing any work in your yard or on grass that you care about I would switch to steel tracks. The increase in traction on slopes and durability is hard to overstate, plus it's additional weight in the best place to allow you to work better over the side of the machine.
Thanks. The sticker on my door with the diesel shows the truck at 10,850 GVWR so that would limit me to a 15,000 GVWR trailer. I couldn't remember ever seeing any 15,000 GVWR trailers but there actually are a few out there according to the Google machine. Not sure how a trailer with 2 - 7,000lb axles can be 15,000 GVWR but that's what they are showing on the rating. Most of them look to weigh in the 3,000lb range empty so that would actually give me a tiny bit of breathing room with a 4 ton machine (since most of the 4 ton machines actually weigh closer to 4.5 tons).