wife thinks I'm nuts...
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Topic: wife thinks I'm nuts...
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: wife thinks I'm nuts...
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 5:18am
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Please have a look here... https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1473393967" rel="nofollow - https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1473393967 I can buy it CHEAPER than a 2019 F150 reg cab, srt box, XLT Now does THAT make any sense ?? Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 5:46am
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If you’re asking does it make sense to buy it instead of the truck, it does make sense. |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 7:33am
| Looks like a pretty handy rig if you have some ditches to clean, trees to remove, etc. It's big enough to do many jobs efficiently. I'm thinking it will hold it's value better than a pickup too. Probably lots of neighbors would like to borrow it too. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 7:43am
Yeah, but it's 13 years older than the truck.
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Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 8:10am
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Mileage is gonna suck on the highway!😂 I’d much rather have it than a 1/2 ton pickup! ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 8:35am
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Jay, If you have the need, it may be a real good value? Your wife thinking your nuts? Well I cant help you there!:) Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 10:38am
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1. It ain't a Ford, a pro.  2. You'll need to paint it orange. a con. 3. It won't get ate by the salt on the road. a big pro! 4. You will have to figure out where to put the AC decals. a pro/con! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 11:11am
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Get it!! It can actually make money instead of losing money on a new truck. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: cabinhollow
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 11:22am
Wife says the same about me, but I did get this. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 1:35pm
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It'll suck to be running it down the road to the store to bring home a bag full of groceries in the bucket... with cop cars with their sireeeens and blinkin flashin lights on.... but might be worth it if your burin an over paid contactor...  ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: Tony.Or
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 1:41pm
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If you have any use at all get it. I kept my Excavator when i quit actual ditching & cleaning with it , it stays home now as a yard crane, and if a sheep dies we got that covered in this rocky ground .. Tony ------------- http://www.tonystractors.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.tonystractors.com |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 4:30pm
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There ya go HD6GTOM. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 4:33pm
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Yea, the PULLING power is GREAT..... but the mileage and TOP SPEED kind of SUCK ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 6:15pm
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I have zero need for it, as a friend can drop his machine here anytime(free fuel too !), I just found it incredible that for less money I could buy something far better built and will outlast a brandnew truck. Kinda wondering what the original price would be on it though ? Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: im4racin
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 6:24pm
| What? I thought everyone had an excavator!! |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 7:22pm
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I bought the BX23S last year( turned 65) as it proves more useful than just an excavtor... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019 at 10:39pm
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I have a NH backhoe attachment that I've fitted to quick-attach to the D17, and there's no doubt that it was worth every penny to acquire, fix up, and fit. BTW... Nobody messes with a guy who has a backhoe parked in 200 acres... Even moreso... 1 excavator, 200 hogs, and 200 acres. The mob, and all their concrete, don't hold a candle... BTW Jay- be careful now... many places in Canada require you to have a special permit just to look at a PICTURE of an excavator. I hear that Ottawa now requires expensive training and government license to look at bulldozers, too...
------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2019 at 2:30am
| think of all the fun you can have! I sure have fun running backhoes! and, and...you can cruch a lot of them nasty ferds with it! |