The 'Today's Job' thread

[Storrsy]

They’re not lovely when your trying to pull a nice neat 12” trench and you end up with a bomb crater as you’ve had to pull 4 out lol and swapped from 5 ton to 16 ton in frustration

The amount of rock you've dug up from that job would have thought it'd be worth good money. I pay around £130 a ton for granite, big lumps.

 

[Giles]

The amount of rock you've dug up from that job would have thought it'd be worth good money. I pay around £130 a ton for granite, big lumps.

National trust job

Rangers take most of it to make benches or block bits off from cars etc we end up loading them as it’s painful watching them struggle with tractor loader

 

[doobin]

National trust job

Rangers take most of it to make benches or block bits off from cars etc we end up loading them as it’s painful watching them struggle with tractor loader any practical task whatsoever

 

[Storrsy]

4300 ish - bought it off a mate about 2 years ago at 3300hrs - had quite a few things to sort on it at first but it's settled down and its very decent, stable - smooth only real gripe is its a bit noisy in hydraulics.
Plan to have a reshuffle when values drop but in reality it all would go on for fair bit longer I suppose as it's very light work and 8t has averaged 415hrs yearly in 6years - 3t 330hrs yearly in 2 - 1.7t kub 50hrs yearly in 2.

They're in their prime, I think this is where they really earn the money at this kind of age/hours, generally still reliable and trustworthy yet bulk of depreciation is done. Factoring depreciation, servicing and a few wear parts my TB125 has cost me less than £2 per hour to own and run over the last 5 years.

 

[doobin]

They're in their prime, I think this is where they really earn the money at this kind of age/hours, generally still reliable and trustworthy yet bulk of depreciation is done. Factoring depreciation, servicing and a few wear parts my TB125 has cost me less than £2 per hour to own and run over the last 5 years.

I hope you're right, because that's how most of my machines look like they will end up with new prices where they are and a depression bearing down upon us.

 

[Storrsy]

I hope you're right, because that's how most of my machines look like they will end up with new prices where they are and a depression bearing down upon us.

Guess the depression could change things If residual values sink. I'm not sure they will massively in the mini market. I got lucky with the tb125, purchased at 1000hrs for £14k in mint condition. Since put on another 2300 hrs and reckon it's worth £12kish now as exceptional condition for age. Looking at adding a kx71 @£19k as well. The two of them will be equivalent value as buying 1 brand new 2.8t but think the 2 will depreciate less and 2 is always better than 1!?

 

[Furniss]

They're in their prime, I think this is where they really earn the money at this kind of age/hours, generally still reliable and trustworthy yet bulk of depreciation is done. Factoring depreciation, servicing and a few wear parts my TB125 has cost me less than £2 per hour to own and run over the last 5 years.

Yeah its hard to warrant changing but I would like tiltrotator.
I paid 34k for the kub 8t when it was 4 years old with 3300hrs ....must be still worth 25k over here so that's pretty good going I reckon.
And stole the other two.

 

[Russell]

They're in their prime, I think this is where they really earn the money at this kind of age/hours, generally still reliable and trustworthy yet bulk of depreciation is done. Factoring depreciation, servicing and a few wear parts my TB125 has cost me less than £2 per hour to own and run over the last 5 years.

That's my current plan. I'm aiming to get a 15 year-old 2.8t machine when possible.
I like the idea of a u25 myself.
If it does one day a year it will earn more than money in the bank.

 

[Storrsy]

That's my current plan. I'm aiming to get a 15 year-old 2.8t machine when possible.
I like the idea of a u25 myself.
If it does one day a year it will earn more than money in the bank.

Are you a big chap? There's a u25 working nearby at the mo the cab is tiny!

 

[Russell]

Not fat but 6'2".
They got enough height?

 

[doobin]

Guess the depression could change things If residual values sink. I'm not sure they will massively in the mini market. I got lucky with the tb125, purchased at 1000hrs for £14k in mint condition. Since put on another 2300 hrs and reckon it's worth £12kish now as exceptional condition for age. Looking at adding a kx71 @£19k as well. The two of them will be equivalent value as buying 1 brand new 2.8t but think the 2 will depreciate less and 2 is always better than 1!?

I don't regret buying new as interest rates being so cheap meant that they haven't cost a lot at all to finance. At 2.3% flat rate, one or two jobs a year pays the interest on a 20k financed machine. With rates heading upwards, this might not be such an attractive proposition in the future.

These cheap finance rates only really applied to new machines, rates for secondhand machines were a lot higher, so much so that often you'd only be paying an extra £100 a month to have a brand new machine rather than one five years old.

 

[V8Druid]

4300 ish - bought it off a mate about 2 years ago at 3300hrs - had quite a few things to sort on it at first but it's settled down and its very decent, stable - smooth only real gripe is its a bit noisy in hydraulics.
Plan to have a reshuffle when values drop but in reality it all would go on for fair bit longer I suppose as it's very light work and 8t has averaged 415hrs yearly in 6years - 3t 330hrs yearly in 2 - 1.7t kub 50hrs yearly in 2.

'Drema's done just over 1000 hrs in the 8 years I've had it -- in 'lumps'

 

[doobin]

All done, now to wash the gear off before it dries! Used the broom on the multione to sweep down the road where the dumper had been running.

I think I’ll fill the skip with fresh water and have a paddling pool for the next few days!

 

[Storrsy]

I don't regret buying new as interest rates being so cheap meant that they haven't cost a lot at all to finance. At 2.3% flat rate, one or two jobs a year pays the interest on a 20k financed machine. With rates heading upwards, this might not be such an attractive proposition in the future.

These cheap finance rates only really applied to new machines, rates for secondhand machines were a lot higher, so much so that often you'd only be paying an extra £100 a month to have a brand new machine rather than one five years old.

Granted there's alot of sense in buying new and even working out cost per hour over the long term it seems much of a muchness Vs used. I had planned to just replace the 125 with a new equivalent. But to sell it just doesn't add up for me because with only 3300 on the clock and hitting the bottom of the depreciation ladder I could probably get another 1500 hours out of it and still get good money for it. So reckoned by spending the money I'd of have added (£20k) on another decent used machine seems to make sense to me, share the wear and tear and unlikely to ever have both machines out of action

 

[Storrsy]

Not fat but 6'2".
They got enough height?

They just look incredibly cramped between the seat and the track levers. And door is narrow too. I've not sat in it though. Think it's Kubota disease to have a small cab. My old 5 ton 161 had the same size cab/footwell as my 216!

 

[Storrsy]

'Drema's done just over 1000 hrs in the 8 years I've had it -- in 'lumps'

Is it just for your own use or do you do much contracting with it?

 

[V8Druid]

Is it just for your own use or do you do much contracting with it?

own use Boyo ... I'll never wear it out

 

[doobin]

Granted there's alot of sense in buying new and even working out cost per hour over the long term it seems much of a muchness Vs used. I had planned to just replace the 125 with a new equivalent. But to sell it just doesn't add up for me because with only 3300 on the clock and hitting the bottom of the depreciation ladder I could probably get another 1500 hours out of it and still get good money for it. So reckoned by spending the money I'd of have added (£20k) on another decent used machine seems to make sense to me, share the wear and tear and unlikely to ever have both machines out of action

I'm trying to think like that. But I just know that the first time I have to take a day off to replace a pipe or something, I'll be kicking myself for not changing it for £10k!

Even doing the work myself, downtime is still expensive. But I've started down that route now. New tracks and a bucket pin/bush set for the E27 have arrived.

I'm thinking that I might end up being sat around a lot over the next year or so! This won't just be a recession, it's looking like a depression.

 

[doobin]

own use Boyo ... I'll never wear it out

I dunno about that- I've seen the forkift mast that you make the poor thing carry!

 

[V8Druid]

I dunno about that- I've seen the forkift mast that you make the poor thing carry!

....... occasionally when needed ... 's only a tonne