I guess that you REALLY are longing for your own excavator?
There you see, I really know what you're up to!
Are 2,5-3 ton your preferred size?
Is work at home on your farm the only plans for it or do you plan to use it at work as well? (Of course you do, silly me!
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You have the tractor, all you need is a trailer and you are ready!
The first one, the Hitachi has a bent working light on the boom.
The Volvo has a freshly repainted left corner counter weight. It also has some scratches on the engine hood. The door also seem to have seen some fresh paint. The tracks are aftermarket ones (I can tell by the thread pattern) and you know what I have said about those. The ones on the machine might be good anyway but I do not know that for sure. It has had the U/C repainted as well. It has both grading and hammer hydraulics, you can tell that by the double quick connectors on the dipper, the one at the very back is a big one going straight to the tank (via the filter) without going through the valves.
The Vio 25 seem to have a new seat (looking at the plastics on the back support). Is that rust water from the boom pin/bushing? It has a quick hitch that seem to be very low giving better geometry and higher digging forces than a higher quick hitch.
And several buckets are always handy. Is it missing a quick connector for the grading hydraulics on the dipper?
The Kobleco seem has rust above the door. 4 buckets and a quick hitch is good but the q/h is higher than on the Yanmar. The boom ram protection is slightly bent.
The Yanmar B25 has 3(?) buckets and probably a quick hitch (cannot tell from the pics). That mirror is good.
I have thought about one for my own machine. That white "P" behind the door is some kind of logo that should not be there. Is that a rubber list hanging out from the door in front of the door opening?
About quick hitches:
Make sure you get a quick hitch that are easily obtainable in GB. There are frequent questions on Maskinisten "Where do I find buckets for this quick hitch" and then they show a pic of a quick hitch manufuctured by some retarded village blacksmith in South Korea.
All machines seem to have short dippers but I am not sure.
Most of the "faults" that I have mentioned are minor ones but some of them tells a story about the machines.
Some of my comments end with a question mark, do not mind answering them, they are just comments.
Another comment:
It is spring (at least where you live) and people will (hopefully) soon start calling you with new garden projects in their mind. Do not bother about minor defects, get a machine and start earning money!
