Thread: Excavators

Now that the Carbon cheque has cleared we may be looking at sinking some of that ill gotten loot into an excavator. We have quite a few long term projects on the farm and in the forest that need doing to keep us solvent in our old age, and looking at what hourly rates have rocketed to, it strikes me that owning a medium sized one (10-13 tonne) could be the way to go.

Rather than a "what should I buy ?" question it may be better to look at "what should I avoid ?"

I see some reasonably new excavators rack up the hours at an alarming rate. I don't know if a 7 year old high hour digger is better value than a 25 year old digger with less hours? That sort of thing. And what is considered high hours?? anything over 10K?, or is that still just run in with some of these machines.

Any brands to avoid??

Most probably have 50-60K to sink into the project.

Cheers in advance

XR