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QUESTION:I have a large project coming up that will need use of an excavator for
several intense periods with unknown gaps in between. Rental seems to be
100-150 per weekend and has to be booked up in advance -and it is
bound to be raining by the time Saturday arrives.
I am seriously considering buying a secondhand one and reselling it a
year or so later. I reckon I'd get back what I paid for it give or take
a few quid and so the cost would be loss on interest on capital and any
inflation difference.
SO the big questions? Are there good makes and bad? Ones that live for
ever? makes that the spares are always on infinite delivery times from
Mars or ones that use
Any advice as to what I should buy, where I should look (I'm in the
Southampton area) etc etc
The collective wisdom of the D-I-Y website is needed.
ANSWER: That does make some if you have the capital free and certainly makes
things a lot easier when you don't have to have it back shiny by 5
o'clock. If you pick it up at 8am, by the time you're on site and
offloaded it's probably 9am and it'll take half an hour to wash it off
afterwards. Plus, if you're as careless as I was, you'll need to find
a tractor to pull it out of the ditch you've just dug somewhere in the
middle of that... Amounts to a lot of wasted time that you're paying
for. Sorry, don't know enough about them to answer that. I've driven
Komatsu and JCB mini diggers, both very nice and easy to use but
absolutely no idea WRT spares and costs. JCB have a fairly good name
for service generally, though.
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