Kubota M59

TSO · Apr 7, 2015

bdog said:
You guys are making it very tempting. You should be salesmen.

I would love to go to Michigan but I am pretty much stuck here with my full time gig. It is not an exact schedule but I often work one week on and one week off. If I could just dink around and do a couple of days of backhoe work on my week off that would be pretty cool.

I did go to Michigan once several years ago for work. If I recall it took three days to drive there, we worked three days, and then spent three days driving home. It was in January and it was the coldest this Texas boy has every been in his life.

LOL... Yeah we do get a little chilly up here. We had more nights below -25 this year than I'd prefer!

bdog · Apr 7, 2015

Just heard from insurance agent. He is checking to see if my current policy covers it. If not a separate excavation policy with 75k gross revenue is about $1,800 a year with 2 million liability.

LD1 · Apr 7, 2015

$150/month for insurance for a side gig isnt chump change. You need insurance if you are serious about doing work for hire, but you better be serious and do more than just a job here and there to justify it.

bdog · Apr 7, 2015

LD1 said:
$150/month for insurance for a side gig isnt chump change. You need insurance if you are serious about doing work for hire, but you better be serious and do more than just a job here and there to justify it.

True, but I don't think I will have difficulties meeting that. I just got through visiting with my friend that has a backhoe. I am not sure what model but it is big. He is retired and charged $75/hr to do work with it with a 2 hr minimum. Heck he told me he made $150 this AM for 45 minutes work filling in a hole for someone down the road.

His is too big to fit on any trailer he has so he just does really local work as in stuff so close he can road his machine to it. He is retired though and he said if he just does a couple small jobs a month he is happy. He doesn't even advertise and said he stays as busy as he wants to. The good news is I think I can get him to flip me all the calls he gets for stuff that is outside of his range.

LD1 · Apr 7, 2015

I could be wrong, but I doubt he has ins either.

I dont for my backhoe work. But I am in the same boat as him. Only not retired. Hoe is too big to trailer, so I just road it around the back roads here and do farm-type work. Clearing fencerows, repairing field tile, running new field tile, etc. Nothing with any utilities or structures around.

RDrancher · Apr 7, 2015

I didn't see it mentioned in your original post, but does the M59 you're looking at have the three point parts with it as well? That will make the machine more versatile and hopefully help you stay as busy as you want to be.

bdog · Apr 7, 2015

Well it is a done deal. Here are some pics of it sitting in my yard. It doesn't have a 3 point but I have a tractor and it is bigger so none of my implements would fit anyway.

I told you it didn't have much use. The guy that owned it lived next door to my mom. It has not been painted or anything this is how little wear it had.

mpham · Apr 7, 2015

Looks good! Doesn't seem like he used it at all. Mine had more damage to the paint at the dealer.

RDrancher · Apr 7, 2015

Wow, what did he do with it....dig in a cotton bin? That thing is clean!

Even though you don't have the 3pt setup, here's the nice thing about the M59. It's pretty heavy and has good hydraulic flow and a strong loader, so it'll push, pull or run about anything you'd use on your CTL.

Sysop · Apr 7, 2015

Very light duty work, or very soft work that cleaned up well on that machine.

First things first, go buy a couple tubes of grease and get to work on the 30 or so fittings. If he didn't work it, he potentially did no maintenance either. If that machine was worked much, it had to have been in very soft, potentially wet materials that would not affect paint and powerwash off easily. It could have water in some of the joints and pins, this should always be a concern on a super clean machine. I always like to put enough grease in that it is slightly oozing out around the pins to help keep dirt and moisture out, but it tends to be a little messy at the pins. Yours looks dry as a bone from what can be seen in the photos (which granted isn't much at that detail level).

Looks like an awesome deal!