Insight on buying a mini excavator vs renting

deezler · Mar 18, 2021

DBH = diameter at breast height; how you commonly rate tree size to ignore the flare in diameter down at ground level. I guess all the loggers in the olden days were buxom women or something?

Sweet, gt! You own an excavator! Damn, I am a bit jelly over here. Dig some stuff asap and share pics!

gtbensley · Mar 18, 2021

I have a dealer 20 minutes away so can see what they can come up with.

Diameter breast height, seems to be a standard way of measuring log size.

fried1765 · Mar 18, 2021

gtbensley said:
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Looks Great!
I am jealous, but I have too much stuff for an 80 year old already!
What was the OTD price,... if you don't mind?
What is that white chit all over the ground?

WoodChuckDad · Mar 20, 2021

I predict that you still own an excavator in 10 years.

gtbensley · Mar 21, 2021

ordered my manuals but they're not here yet. Going through servicing machine and for the life of me cannot find the cartridge hydraulic filter. Anyone know where it's located?

Peter 315 · Mar 21, 2021

Sometimes there in the hyd tank...

gtbensley · Mar 21, 2021

Peter 315 said:
Sometimes there in the hyd tank...

That's what I was starting to conclude, there's a cover with a breather on the top that has about the same diameter

gtbensley · Mar 21, 2021

gtbensley said:
That's what I was starting to conclude, there's a cover with a breather on the top that has about the same diameter

Well it wasn't under the breather one.

grsthegreat · Mar 21, 2021

I almost purchased one last year, but I talked myself out of it. Glad I did. I’m sure all the neighbors would want me to dig holes for them...for beer.

i REALLY wish I purchased that 40’ bucket truck 2 years ago...only $10,000. Only reason I didnt was because of insurance rates on rig. I could have used that so many times over the past 2 years.

two_bit_score · Mar 22, 2021

grsthegreat said:
I almost purchased one last year, but I talked myself out of it. Glad I did. I’m sure all the neighbors would want me to dig holes for them...for beer.

i REALLY wish I purchased that 40’ bucket truck 2 years ago...only $10,000. Only reason I didnt was because of insurance rates on rig. I could have used that so many times over the past 2 years.

I regret the things I didn’t buy more than anything I bought.