Thread: Excavators

Thanks guys for all the input. Sounds like the bigger ones will be the ones to look out for. We are not under much time pressure, sometime this FY will do.

And I get the "what has it been used for?" line. 6000 hours in a quarry vs 6000 hours moving dirt on a motorway alignment can mean an awful lot less wear and tear on the expensive bits. We already have a 12 ton dozer, but it gets tired quickly trying to do digger stuff with a dozer: trenches being the fun one!

There's the possibility It could get used for recovering thinnings from our 100 acre pine forest. Its just there's bugger all market for thinnings at the mo.

And yeah, @300winmag, I do get the feeling there will be more carnage with companies going belly up, so I hope we can take advantage there. But going much higher with the budget will definitely eat into the "buying other toys" category

Then again there's next years Carbon payment.....if its still a thing then