Opinions please

[ropensaddle]

You of all people should know that CARB don't need a warrant. Like I said, they hire these young people to patrol,,,, I am to blame for not having the time to mount their CARB tag on, so it was a delay in production. Still, they are actively looking and don't need a warrant, even on private property.
Jeff
Good thing they are afraid of the Avocado groves.

Haha Jeffy took blame for the liberalist agenda oh my word what is this world coming too

 

[CalTreeEquip]

It was exactly like that, in black, but I was paying 17K for mine

I cant BELIEVE what guys like you are reselling some of this equipment for. It is just INSANE that people buy this stuff for your asking prices. I am not knocking you in any way shape of form, as I am a huge fan of capitalism, but for christ's sake!!!

I bought my second to last bucket truck roughly two years ago, a 00 INT 4600 with an ALC50-55 from Tamarack for $16K 50K miles fresh sleeve on the DT466 fully updated boom. You guys buy the SAME truck, spray it with white paint, and charge 40K....

What's up with that???

Serious question... How do you justify a triple mark up for a white paint job?


AND,

Thank you very much for your response regarding Morbarks

Well for starters, prices are generally set by what the market will bear. I can price units on the short sale or long. I usually do a search on machinery trader for similar units, comparing price, hours, condition, attributes, cost new, dealer of private seller and location. Then I price it in the lower ranger (it's best to be the lowest price around) for equipment that needs to leave the State or in the higher ranger for equipment that is CARB legal since there is so little of it here. So that's it. I'm not trying to compete with auction prices, private seller who don't know how to get the most out of what they have or anyone who is in a hurry. That where I get my stuff. Instead I compete with other dealers, new and used, so you guys have options.

Now, why would anyone pay such prices? Because if you need an 1890 with a big engine right now your options are limited. So you can buy one new (with an grossly inferior tier 4 engine) for about $80k plus tax and shipping and have to wait until they build it, or buy one from you local tree guy who has been abusing the hell out of it but he's not going to tell you that because he isn't trying to maintain his rep in the chipper sell business, or buy mine for half the cost of new, vastly superior engine, with extremely low hours coming from a government agency that used it for general grounds cleanup and fully maintain it on a fixed schedule regardless of use, and its ready to go and I might even ship it to you for free (if I like you that is).

I can't comment on the bucket truck you bought since I don't know what was involved.
I will say dealers I rep, for the most part, do far more then just slap on paint (which cost $3 or $4K in CA by the way) and flip them like a cheap whore. Generally we are buying the best of the lot, servicing what they need, (brakes, boom, tires, interiors, body work, certification, DOT, paint) whatever it needs so it doesn't come back with a pissed off customer and then put it out there at a profit. If you notice I don't have a lot of forestry bucket truck on my site, primarily because good trucks are hard to find. Not that there aren't a lot of trucks out there, just that so many of them are junk and we don't want to put our name on junk. We leave those for end users and pig dealers who slap some lipstick on them and sell them to guys who don't now any better.

So that's it, all that's fit to spit with a few trade secret to boot, so don't tell anyone.

 

[CalTreeEquip]

You of all people should know that CARB don't need a warrant. Like I said, they hire these young people to patrol,,,, I am to blame for not having the time to mount their CARB tag on, so it was a delay in production. Still, they are actively looking and don't need a warrant, even on private property.
Jeff
Good thing they are afraid of the Avocado groves.

Thing is they do need a warrant but someone has to sue them to make that point.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

I love my 85 morbark 200. I built a down pressure setup for around $600 for it. I like the older machines because they don't have all that electronic crap on them to break down. Stuff that's built now days isn't built to last like the older stuff was. Too much plastic and no pride in there workmanship.

 

[ducaticorse]

I love my 85 morbark 200. I built a down pressure setup for around $600 for it. I like the older machines because they don't have all that electronic crap on them to break down. Stuff that's built now days isn't built to last like the older stuff was. Too much plastic and no pride in there workmanship.

Pretty sure this machine is mechanical, or at least a tier one. It does have autofeed that you can switch on and off. I decided to go with the model 13. It's in real nice shape.

 

[CalTreeEquip]

Good deal. When you're chipping light dry brush be sure you have sharp blades and turn the RPM up a few hundred that will help keep it from clogging.

 

[ducaticorse]

Good deal. When you're chipping light dry brush be sure you have sharp blades and turn the RPM up a few hundred that will help keep it from clogging.

Is it the fan, or the design of the chute that makes these this particular model clog?

 

[CalTreeEquip]

My understanding is it's both. The needs to be wider at the base with less of an angle in the elbow. I don't know what they do to the fan but there may be a factory fix for it. Some guy have cut a port into the base of the chip chute and attached a hand held Echo blower. You plug it in and turn it on when your doing the kind of brush that will clog on you. But before you do anything use it, find out if you even have a problem. It may be they have fixed it.

 

[ducaticorse]

My understanding is it's both. The needs to be wider at the base with less of an angle in the elbow. I don't know what they do to the fan but there may be a factory fix for it. Some guy have cut a port into the base of the chip chute and attached a hand held Echo blower. You plug it in and turn it on when your doing the kind of brush that will clog on you. But before you do anything use it, find out if you even have a problem. It may be they have fixed it.

Interesting. Thanks for the info!!