John White
Gold Member
I just purchased a DM 200 excv. I can't find any thing on the internet or any one who owns one. I think they juist arrived in the USA a few months ago. I got mine through a auction house but not through the auction. They ordered containers of Excv. due to the feared import tax and price increase. This is the only one they got in of this make. No owners manual or tool box with it. They sell on E bay for quite alot more than I paid. They said their auction wasnt till March so I think they needed some cash. I looked on E bay and they are priced $10-11K I contacted some of the sellers on E bay to find out if they had a owners manual or could get it. No answers. Found one in S. Carolina for sale and he said he could get parts only if I bought it from him. I looked it over and it seems pretty well built, no bubble gum welds, bolts look good, pretty smooth to operate, Z482 Kubota diesel. (wondering about that) paint good, plenty of room in engine compt, easy to get to. Every one is saying I lost my mind for getting one, while the years I probably have left can be counted on one hand. I ran a mini excv. business for several years, Mitsubihi dozer, JD 50 track hoe, New Holland tractor, box blade and York rake, JCB 212 back hoe. I eventually envolved over into septic pumping and worked in it for 15 years. At 82 it was getting too hard on me, my hired helper found another job and I went to a homeless shelter for men and told them I would pay $40 a hour, no one wanted to work, so I sold my co. then. Sold the JD50 a few years ago but still around home there are holes to dig, dead trees to cut up and I need to put a curtain drain around the front of my house. I have a Bob Cat CT335 wilth a back hoe on it but every time I put it on, I need to put the blade on it, and put the blade on it and then I need the hoe. It is getting harder for me to do that. A few years a friend of mine bought one of those China mini hoes. He bought some property up at Lake Mich and wanted to develop it to put a cabin on or at least a place to park his motor home on when he went up for a few weeks in the summer. I remember when he bought it by on the trailer and I went out and looked at it and grabbed ahold of it and started rocking it a couple of times (I think I could have fliped it over) and asked him whey he didn't just borrow my wheel borrow and find a man to do the work. He laughed at me. You will see the light some day, he said. Well this summer I begun to "see the light". At 84 there still maintaince you have to do as long as you are upright. I had to dig out and put a flag pool in this last summer, a few small trees, and dispose of larger ones that died and dig out the stumps. This last summer a life long friend of mine died, I am the last man standing. In place of flowers his wife asked if I could plant a tree in his memory. I said sure. So on Thanksgiving day I planted a Scymore tree in our front yard. It nearly put me under. The words my other friend had told me came back to me , "some day you will see the light". So I begin to think that I might not see any light at all if I keep this up. So I looked at all the viedos on U Tube about the China made Excvs. till my eyeballs allmost poped out, read all I could find. Finially decided that if I got one I wanted pilot controls (hated the JD 50, all stooped over) wanted a thumb, wanted to go to at least the 1 1/2 ton and wanted swinging boom. Ran onto this DM200 and price was out of my ball park and it did not have swinging boom, but had a diesel engine which I figured on a Briggs. I told the fellow how much I wanted to spend and and had cash in my pocket. He thought for a minute and said "ok" So if any one can locate a manual for me or put me in that direction and can give me any information on this one. I am sure it is the same as other China made excvs. I am sure they did not retool just to make this brand. I even tried sending a e-mail to the mfg. but no response. I can make a tool box for it but sure need a manual. I am not very good on the internet. And I can't give you any more info on it, it is in the garage and I am going to sit under my heated throw blanket with my cat on my lap till spring. This cold weather just kills me any more. In the mean time tell everyone not to call the men with the white coats.
