Advice on heavy equipment

[jdm4x43732]

Wrenching is all part of the fun. All I can say is if you do buy the equipment put some kind of insurance on it. I had bought a Versatile and it went up in smoke. Lesson learned the hard way. Fire dept showed up but couldn't get through the pipe gate due to one of those enclosures around the lock to keep it from being cut. By the time we showed up to unlock it , it had burned itself out. 7 or 8 years ago hiring equipment with an operator was running me 65 bucks an hr per machine. I wouldn't want to have to get anything done now with fuel prices no telling what it would cost.