Bought and Excavator

[The Deerslayer]

Congrats on the new addition Mike; she's a beauty. So many things you'll be able to do with it at your place. Seems to be amazingly smooth and quite a bit of power.
No need to tell you to enjoy it....have already seen your face when operating it! :dance1:

 

[Hersheyfarm]

I just picked up a 40. I壇 have rather had a 57 but I couldn稚 find one for anything close to the same money as the 40. View attachment 684003

Same here. The 57 was just too heavy for my 14.5k trailer and put me over 26k lb. Very happy with the 40. This is the first digging machine(after 4 backhoes) with a thumb. I?ll never go without one again.

 

[4570Man]

Same here. The 57 was just too heavy for my 14.5k trailer and put me over 26k lb. Very happy with the 40. This is the first digging machine(after 4 backhoes) with a thumb. I?ll never go without one again.

I could have put one on my bigger truck and trailer but the 40 goes nicely on my 14k trailer and ton truck. But I was seeing 20k more for a 57 and one of my buddies has an 80 so I wasn’t that worried about brute force.