Tomorrow is maintenance day on papa giant. Got him inside warming up.
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Toying around with the thought of selling my bucket.
It’s a 2018 IH 7400 with 7k miles or so on it and something under 1600 pto hours. 330hp Cummins, Allison 3500 RDS. 4x4, full lockers. Terex xt pro 60/70 rear mount. I think the gears are 6:38 ratio. It’s a beast.
Not sure what a truck like that would bring used, but it was 207k new. I’d have to look into it, but I’m thinking 140 to 150k at least. Maybe more?
It’s a 2018 IH 7400 with 7k miles or so on it and something under 1600 pto hours. 330hp Cummins, Allison 3500 RDS. 4x4, full lockers. Terex xt pro 60/70 rear mount. I think the gears are 6:38 ratio. It’s a beast.
Not sure what a truck like that would bring used, but it was 207k new. I’d have to look into it, but I’m thinking 140 to 150k at least. Maybe more?
It’s a beautiful member of the fleet, but might be a worthy sacrifice as I don't have anybody but me to run it and I’m usually in one of the lifts and running other machines.
If I sold that I could pay off three other pieces of equipment (first 2750, big giant and the 19xpc)., making it pretty temping. I mean I could always build another down the line…
If I sold that I could pay off three other pieces of equipment (first 2750, big giant and the 19xpc)., making it pretty temping. I mean I could always build another down the line…
Let me know what number you come up with and I’ll see if the boss wants another elevator in the fleet.
Cool. That sounds good. I have a lot of figuring and a few calls to make on my end, but if it’s possible to do what I want, that bucket might be like a key chess piece that needs to be sacrificed. We’ll see.
bck
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Tempting …
you probably could get near what you paid for it due to the equipment shortage and cost increases.
Yeah, I hear you. Now is the time if I was ever going to do it.
bck
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$150k would be a deal / steal. I would agree probably more like $175k - $200k maybe ? I would have a hard time passing up on that truck at $150k.
But rates are higher now and the economy is slowing down. Might be a little harder to find a buyer . Play it safe , I’ll give you $95k today. Haha
But rates are higher now and the economy is slowing down. Might be a little harder to find a buyer . Play it safe , I’ll give you $95k today. Haha
So I was just talking to the terex guy, it sounds like that truck would be about 240k these days new. He said 175k but with it taking a year and a half to get a truck, put 190k on it and see what happens. (I'm also not sure he knows just how clean my truck is either).
Hmmm... bit of thinking to do for sure.
Hmmm... bit of thinking to do for sure.
Honestly, I think I’ll try and sell it anyways, regardless of what happens with the k boom dream. The timing is just right, and for me, I’m just not getting the ROI out of it to warrant keeping it. It just doesn’t make sense. That truck should be up in the air everyday kicking ass, not sitting around the yard waiting for the next bucket job or being used to tow a dump trailer and mini around. Way too much invested in it for that.
I’ll surely miss it for those perfect bucket trees, but not enough to be worth keeping it at that rate.
I’ll surely miss it for those perfect bucket trees, but not enough to be worth keeping it at that rate.
200 or keep it. truck is a parade piece, and its all wheel drive
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Looks like a beast.
Personally would aim to hang onto it over the second Omme & try to recruit more staff.
Know it’s tricky having gear sitting around, but when times change, it’s also good having that capacity available.
Basically found out today after talking with two of my finance guys that I could do a knuckleboom if I wanted. Not a little one either, something “tree-tarded”, as Justin used to say. A fun thought to play around with, that’s for sure.
Kind of hard to fathom, but I guess I must be doing something right.
Kind of hard to fathom, but I guess I must be doing something right.
I know, man… I don’t like the idea of sacrificing any of my babies, believe me! I want them all lol. Just this one’s a biggie (and I’m only thinking around it).
Ground 20 some stumps today while the guys removed a few pine, poplar, and ash.
I gotta get them trained on that machine! Seems like whenever a I leave them alone with it a belt breaks or it gets flipped. A little sc252 is not a bad machine when working right. I'd say it was about 4-5 hours of grinding.
Speaking of which, I ordered an alpine magnum back in April for a special job in June. When the machine did not arrive by the promised deadline, I asked for a refund. I'm still waiting on that. They wont return my calls and emails. Quite frustrating as I'm not sure how to best get my money back from a guy 2500 miles away in Washington state.
Plywooded the hell out of this dudes backyard patio area yesterday and took down a larger (stone dead) White Pine and then this hemlock with the spider.
We winched everything up to the wall and grabbed it the big giant. (Nice to have the tractor back mint again!!) Not a bad day.
We winched everything up to the wall and grabbed it the big giant. (Nice to have the tractor back mint again!!) Not a bad day.
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Pretty amazing what that machine can handle. The chipper took the whole thing in one shot I bet
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