Miller Bobcat 225G

[Mark @ Everlast]

Tift area Academy has a BIG farm Auction in Chula every year in February about mid Feb. It's one of the best ones around as it's been going on for over 30 years. I've never seen it without a welder or a generator that goes pretty cheaply. I've seen running ones sell as cheap as 150.00 and has high as 1500.00 for nicer, later models. Every once in a while, you'll find some military surplus. Last year I bought a food service sandwich and beverage cart that slides in the back of a golf cart. It's all day long and they start the day with 2 trucks auctioning off stuff at the same time. It's run by Weeks, and the profits go to the academy.

 

[SoGeorgia]

Tift area Academy has a BIG farm Auction in Chula every year in February about mid Feb. It's one of the best ones around as it's been going on for over 30 years. I've never seen it without a welder or a generator that goes pretty cheaply. I've seen running ones sell as cheap as 150.00 and has high as 1500.00 for nicer, later models. Every once in a while, you'll find some military surplus. Last year I bought a food service sandwich and beverage cart that slides in the back of a golf cart. It's all day long and they start the day with 2 trucks auctioning off stuff at the same time. It's run by Weeks, and the profits go to the academy.

Thanks Mark!! I haven't heard of that one.. I've wanted to go to Weeks in Moultrie for a while, but it's always on Wednesday and I'm always at work.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

This is always on a Saturday. It starts earlier, and has gone till it was dark in times past. Last year it was on the 16th. They have a usually smaller fall auction usually as well. It's always been at the peanut buying station...not the school itself. They'll take about anything. I bought an assorted box of powertools that included a nice but older 1/2" drill that needed a new cord, and a nearly new Dewalt hand held orbital sander for a low, 5.00 bid. A lot of items go absolute.

 

[Lucas5523]

I own a miller 225G just about the same year as the one your looking at. $850 seams a bit too high for the condition it's in. One issue might be the fuel pump since it's been sitting out.
Fuel pump will cost about $80 and muffler not too much.
But like I said $850 is too much for the condition and year this model it.
$500 or less would be the ball park for it.
I get excellent work out of my miller.
It does everything I need from welding, to powering the shop and house if we need to in the winter months.
It'll be worth the money if it's for a reasonable price.
Best of luck with the welder!

 

[sandman2234]

I bought a Miller 225 back in early 90's. The going price was $2799 new, and shortly after went up to $2999. I was informed about a new one sold on credit that the guy failed to get the contract he bought it to use on. The store repo'd the welder and was supposed to hold it for 30 days but agreed to sell it to me after 10 days. They were afraid I would find something else and I was afraid I would loose it if it sat on the shelf very long. They said $1500 would buy it, and I walked in with exactly that much. They couldn't sell it without sales tax, so they cut the price again to come up to $1492 and they loaded it up and I used it for about 14 years. It worked great, except for the high idle circuit that was supposed to power it back down when not under load. Worked about a year and then only ran as if under a load. I bought a 4 year old truck from a friend, who wanted that welder to use as a backup generator or if he needed a welder. His health went down and he really never used it. He agreed to give me $2000 credit for the welder in trade for a p/u that was already priced to my advantage. The welder went with him and I never missed it, as we haven't had much in power outages since. I do remember that the seven gallon fuel tank did not last nearly as long as I hoped to when running it during a power outage to generate power. Better have a pretty good supply of fuel if you use it round the clock.
David from jax