bought a excavator

[mlinnane]

Well I did buy an excavator. Time will tell if I made a good decision it is a IHI55. I believe it is 51 horse power enclosed cab and the meter says 980 hours. It appears to be in good shape. IF I do not have any trouble with it, it was a good buy if I do wel then I guess it is not.

 

[flyers]

Michelle
I am a IHI dealer and we think it is a very good excavator. Our customers love them. We have had no major problems so far.It took us about 8 months to pick one we used them all and looked at the background of them. We think we have the best one on the market. If you have any questions let me know.


Mark

 

[RobS]

Very nice, but an odd looking boom. Is there an extra pivot at the end? I've never seen anything like that, please tell us what it does and why.

Thanks and congrats on your new purchase /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[R_Redding]

IHI are good quality machines...they make the small GEHL range..

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Very nice, but an odd looking boom. )</font>

Its an offset "knuckle" boom ...It allows you to get close to walls etc without clonking it with the rear end...

Most newish UK jap grey imports I've seen seem to have this feature

Rob

 

[hockeypuck]

Looks like someone went to the auctions. Auctions are great, you get to play with the big toys. I hope the machine works out for you. Remember to grease those joints especially those knuckles on the boom. They are the hardest to get to and usually see the least amount of grease. Change hydraulic filters religiously and get in tight with a good mechanic.

Puck.

 

[EddieWalker]

Congratulations!!

I don't know anything about that brand or the machine, but it looks like fun. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Are the tracks rubber? If so, that should save allot on wear and maintenance.

Have you looked into putting a thumb on it?

One of the best reasons I've seen for a trackhoe is crearing brush and trees. With a thumb, they are the most useful machine for moving material into a fire and cleaning up.

Have fun!!
Eddie

 

[mlinnane]

My excavator arrived last night at 9:00pm. The driver called and asked if he could bring the machine I was supposed to have over the weekend(banks fault). They filled out paper work and never processed it. Finally got it straighten out. And I don't blame dealer I would not release machine until money was in my hot little hand either!
This place had more excavators then I had ever seen in one place. I bougt the machine off ebay, but I went to see them in NY syracuse (2 1/2 hours from me) what they had on web page was what you saw. Them seem honest and move a great deal of equipment open 7 days a week. The owner had sold over 90 things on ebay and only one complaint. I thought that was pretty good. So I bid 1 dollar over what they asked and got the machine. I paid $14,481.00 they have a trucking company alread set up and it was $450 to move machine 11,200lbs. The driver told me last night he thought I got a good machine it seemed tight to him. He said they had a good name. I contacted a guy who works on excavators and he lives in next town. he charges $1.50 for mileage and $90 an hour. So I am going to have him do a full service and check everything out before I start using it. I might play a little tonight for a few minutes (got to have a little fun). I hope everything works out. I am going to just dig a bank out behind my barn first far enough away from everything I can not hit anything. I have been taking the wire fences down as I want to bury some of the hedgerows and don't want to mess with barb wire in the tracks or my brush hog. I have a guy down the road who only charges me like $30 for his JD450 dozer work. For that I am not buying a dozer. The next thing I want is a 3 yard front end loader some of the stonewall fence will make a great road bed so I can access to the back of the property. Also the front loader will help place dirt where I want it and stone.
After I the bank down I am going to bury some parts of hedge row and then make some smaller ponds. For dog training our ponds are not normally never round they have curved channels which will be great. Often we build mounds in the field so that we and the dog can run from an elevated spot.
Also I want to get some of the rocks out of fields so I do not have to worry about mowing and brush hogging. I was looking in the woods last night it would so easy to build a little pond in there so the wood ducks would come. Every place I look I see some project I could use the machine for.
Not to mention I am going to trench electric out to my barn and there is an old junk yard on the place that I want to bury as it looks like the devil.
When I told my uncle I bought and excavator he said oh lord you will have 100 acres dug up in to no time at all.

 

[NorthernVt]

michelle,
Nice looking machine. I'm looking for somthing similar. If you don't mind me asking. What is the name of the dealer that you purchased the machine from? I have found 2 dealers on ebay in that area. Thanks,

Dylan