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.

[Zachary Boy]

Originally Posted by 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.

Very sound advice! I am 'insurance poor' due to all the insurance I now carry in my current business. The sad reality is that 95% of my competetion has none of the above.I try to warn my prospective customers of 'the perils of low bid', but some choose to save a few nickels and they usually get burnt...