Universzero
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Hey there, so first post here (though I've read various threads on this and that for a couple years now, until just finally registering).
So, I'm wondering how much utility I can reasonably expect out of a yanmar vio30. I'm an offgrid homesteader type, and this proposed machine will be strictly for personal use on my property, rather than any commercial endeavors. I'm in the western Maine mountains (in a valley of said mountains anyway), on 52 acres. For the last couple years, I've been paying professional excavators to terrace out some of my land, but it's always been difficult to book the good ones, with long wait times which often get moved back and back until it's too late in the season. The jobs have been more or less ok, but there has been much left to be desired on the finish& details side of things. So now I'm thinking to just buy an excavator and do it myself, along with other tasks id like to get done around here, which I'll detail below.
Now, living in this area, rocks are a way of life... as inevitable as death and taxes. I've no delusions that this 24hp mini is going to be able to tackle a big ass boulder or anything. With that being said, I'm looking to do things like dig out a root cellar, a foundation for another house (passive solar, earth bermed, concrete affair), some french drains here and there, maybe enlarge my existing pond a bit, move some rocks around, rip out stumps, and clean up the borders of and build up many areas along my terraces. Efficiency of time is not a huge factor to me...I have plenty of time and don't mind a smaller machine that takes 4 times as long to do something, so long as it can do it with enough persistence.
So, to the yanmar then. I've been talking about getting one for a couple years now, and an aquaintance of mine happens to be selling one. I'm unsure the year, this vio30 has 2200 hours, and is pretty clean, has a blade and mechanical thumb. Its one of those sort of turqoisey and yellow models with a canopy (like something you'd see attached to some carnival ride or something). He wants $11k for it. I've been looking at ads for over 2 years, and (especially now, since the shortages of everything), I haven't seen anything else even come close to that price. Id be willing to spend up to $20k on something in the 40hp range, but there's really not much at all in those ranges either.
Am i right in assuming this is a great deal (if one were to assume that everything was fine on the machine)? And will something in this size be able to do most of what i am looking for it to do?
So, I'm wondering how much utility I can reasonably expect out of a yanmar vio30. I'm an offgrid homesteader type, and this proposed machine will be strictly for personal use on my property, rather than any commercial endeavors. I'm in the western Maine mountains (in a valley of said mountains anyway), on 52 acres. For the last couple years, I've been paying professional excavators to terrace out some of my land, but it's always been difficult to book the good ones, with long wait times which often get moved back and back until it's too late in the season. The jobs have been more or less ok, but there has been much left to be desired on the finish& details side of things. So now I'm thinking to just buy an excavator and do it myself, along with other tasks id like to get done around here, which I'll detail below.
Now, living in this area, rocks are a way of life... as inevitable as death and taxes. I've no delusions that this 24hp mini is going to be able to tackle a big ass boulder or anything. With that being said, I'm looking to do things like dig out a root cellar, a foundation for another house (passive solar, earth bermed, concrete affair), some french drains here and there, maybe enlarge my existing pond a bit, move some rocks around, rip out stumps, and clean up the borders of and build up many areas along my terraces. Efficiency of time is not a huge factor to me...I have plenty of time and don't mind a smaller machine that takes 4 times as long to do something, so long as it can do it with enough persistence.
So, to the yanmar then. I've been talking about getting one for a couple years now, and an aquaintance of mine happens to be selling one. I'm unsure the year, this vio30 has 2200 hours, and is pretty clean, has a blade and mechanical thumb. Its one of those sort of turqoisey and yellow models with a canopy (like something you'd see attached to some carnival ride or something). He wants $11k for it. I've been looking at ads for over 2 years, and (especially now, since the shortages of everything), I haven't seen anything else even come close to that price. Id be willing to spend up to $20k on something in the 40hp range, but there's really not much at all in those ranges either.
Am i right in assuming this is a great deal (if one were to assume that everything was fine on the machine)? And will something in this size be able to do most of what i am looking for it to do?
