Thread: Excavators

Not that you would put a lot of hours on a machine mucking around on a farm but there are servicing costs to take into account unless you buy one to run it into the ground etc.
Ours get services every 250 hours by Porters and AB's
The 20t & 30t are approx $2k but both are low hour machines and the guys look after them, they have inbuilt gps, sometimes we get a call that they are due for a service, we don't penny pinch as if they are down in the middle of a job it generally stops the project. We haven't had any issues with them and all 4 are under 3000 hours purchased new.

250 hours isn't bad - some of the gear used to be on 150 hour intervals and it felt like 3-4hours downtime every week with 205L drums and a transfer pump... The guys were running the things for two shifts though, and were only keeping up with demand. So you noticed it worse when the machine was being serviced, felt like you were always chasing your tail.