Buying Advice End Loader, Backhoe, or ???

[grm61]

Hi, what series is your Michigan? weights I have seen listed is 54K:shocked:
Besides the gashed tire Where are the other ones leaking? Are they leaking through the casing or around the O ring if they are tubeless?
Have they been tubed?
I'm an old tire guy that's why I am asking.

I can appreciate your dilemma...Money does not grow on trees, or fall out of the sky, not for me anyway.
Some pics of your machine and tires would be usefull, If you are not sure if they have been tubed, please in include pics of the valve stems.


Seems to me if the tires held air, and it started without a jump, and did not have oil running onto the ground while it ran, it would be good trading stock.
A full size construction Hoe, Preferably 4x4 would probably be usefull to you

Some guys collect this stuff just because they like it, they might have something that will work for you, and just have to have that wheel loader:thumbsup:

I get the tire thing....Might not be as bad as you think to get them to hold air.

 

[Cat_Driver]

"My mistake was mentioning my budget. I truly did want to know what people thought was the most useful machine for what I laid out I would be using it for. Little did I know this forum was filled with people far more affluent than I am."


No, you mistake is not accepting perhaps a total of 500 years of experience here on the site. Sorta like my teenager who throws out terms like you do to ( "more affluent than I am") to deflect his ignorance, then years later comes back and says "Dad you were right"

I'll be there are no to very few people with "affluance" giving you advice here. Most everyone here has lived and worked long enought to set realistic goals for what they are trying to accomplish with their equipment and most if not all have been there done that and have the T shirt to prove it.

Now you cal sluff off all the actual help people are giving you with your nastly comment of affluance or you can grow a set and appreciate what people here are doing for you.

Probably the funniest part of your rude and prickish comment was the fact that you called a bunch of people who own and use tractors affluant. That right there shows us all how ignorant you really are.

I never knew a farmer who tilled 600 acres with a 250K tractor because he needs the size and power to accomplish his tilling from way before sun up to way after dark was "affluant"

You my ignorant friend will get no help from me. You obviously know it all, and are not humble enough to understand what the kind people here are doing to help you..

 

[ovrszd]

CD, maybe you need a timeout.....

 

[DrewStyduhar]

Hi,

New to the forum and don't know anyone in here. I'm really surprised about all the assumptions being made here and folks getting nasty with each other. Some of you obviously have a chip on your shoulder.

Who is the moderator for this forum?

 

[4570Man]

There’s several, Moss road is probably the most active. But no rules have been broken here.

 

[DrewStyduhar]

Didn't say any rule was broken. Just curious about some things. Thanks

 

[rScotty]

Didn't say any rule was broken. Just curious about some things. Thanks

TBN is a large - very large - family. Like any family there are disagreements. But as a whole, it works surprisingly well.

 

[shooterdon]

And theyæ±*e broke down and not useable. Point proved.

Well, he used the $2k machine for almost 8 years. Seems like he did good in my book. Can't rent anything for $250 per year.

Kind of like using a beater truck to plow snow. If it will only be used 30 hours a year, having a bit of noise from the rear end is not a show stopper. Maybe the OP does not need great reliability and does not do a lot of work with his machine. Sometimes good enough is good enough.

 

[tcreeley]

Some good info both ways. TBN is not the best place for tips on doing something on the cheap. I have to laugh at the number of first tractors going through the door for 20+K and more. But why not - if you can afford it!
I had the same wake up call when I read posts on the "correct" way to do something vs the cheap good enough way to get the same thing done. There is a ton of good information here- less on scrapping it together.

 

[rScotty]

Some good info both ways. TBN is not the best place for tips on doing something on the cheap. I have to laugh at the number of first tractors going through the door for 20+K and more. But why not - if you can afford it!
I had the same wake up call when I read posts on the "correct" way to do something vs the cheap good enough way to get the same thing done. There is a ton of good information here- less on scrapping it together.

I also enjoy the "how to do it on a budget" type of post versus the "how to spend lots with financing" type. But that's a personal choice.

Just thinking out loud....Hasn't our buying decisions become sort of generational? In Colorado the population has soared in the last ten years and a majority of the people moving out of town onto small acreages are now older folks close to retirement who do tend to have more money to spend. Naturally enough they buy new compact and utility size 4wd tractors. In fact, many who fit that age description post here on TBN.

I say "generational" partly because although I am from that older group now, we came from a generation where the reverse movement was true. In my youth It was the young people moving to the county and the older people who were moving to the city.
Since we didn't have much money after buying land.....and the credit economy hadn't been invented yet.... we didn't even consider buying new. We just naturally bought older machinery and fixed it up. That isn't so popular today, but it is still a reasonable way to go. Gotta have more time than money, though.
My hat is off to anyone who figures out what they can afford and how to work within that budget.
rScotty