Snowplowing

[randyo]

Lots of luck there....they are out there but the cost !!!  Ouch, my beighbor has been looking for two years now, any type of skid steer around here is mucho bucks !!

I know,  I'm looking for under $25k without a zillion hours, preferably with a snowblower as well as a bucket & forks

[airshot]

The problem is...if they are in good working order and dont need repairs, people dont want to sell them !!  My neighbor has gone as far as to make offers to people when he sees one even if not for sale!!  Hoping someday to make a sale.

[randyo]

The problem is...if they are in good working order and dont need repairs, people dont want to sell them !!  My neighbor has gone as far as to make offers to people when he sees one even if not for sale!!  Hoping someday to make a sale.

trade in's for bigger models, bankruptcy's, I keep my eye open, unfortunately, equipment has gone the way of trucks, new ones are so expensive, it's increased the value of used  costs $45k now for what was $25k 3 years ago

a mini excavator is on my wish list too, 8000 lb, big enuf to get some work done, and small enuf to be towed on a trailer with a 3/4 ton pickup

you can find old rentals everyday, but who wants something with 10,000 hours that has been operated by only god knows who

[Stig / Major Tom]

I know,  I'm looking for under $25k without a zillion hours, preferably with a snowblower as well as a bucket & forks

I had to look up what a 'skid-steer' was. BobCat type thing.
Stig

[randyo]

I had to look up what a 'skid-steer' was. BobCat type thing.
Stig

Bobcat is the manufacturer that made em popular, and probably most common, 

something I just remembered, Bobcat makes UTVs as well, a conventional utv like out 450i also, an articulating steering model, one of my old clients has one, when he bought it at least a dozen years ago, it was $35k, diesel engine running a hydraulic pump, everything from the drive to the 4 wheels and articulating steering, top speed 35mph, but what a tank, no bigger than the average utv

[airshot]

Lots of different mfgrs make them now, including the oddball foreign mfgrs. However that doesn't make them any less expensive

[randyo]

ugh!

I don't like playing in the snow like I used to. Had to stop before i got a blister on my right thumb due to pushing the shift lockout button. Gotta be some way of adjusting the trigger

[randyo]

another foot, maybe two, depending where you measure it.
I'm running out of room to put it

[airshot]

ugh!

I don't like playing in the snow like I used to. Had to stop before i got a blister on my right thumb due to pushing the shift lockout button. Gotta be some way of adjusting the trigger

That button can be removed, the only thing it does is keeps you from going from forward into reverse, at least that was the original intention !! 
Don't complain, at least you have some snow to play in, around here we barely have gotten enough to leave a foot print....had all the snow toys fueled and ready to go,  never run after initial preperation, will waste a whole tank of fuel just sitting !!  Boring !!