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    Quote Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing View Post
    Thanks for all the responses and gus I am buying the machine off machinery trader. That mag you are referring to is coming from company wrench. I was going to rent a machine off them but after looking at the costs per month after six months of rental I would have been able to buy a machine with that money and install everything on it the way I want and how I want it. I am also planning on buying a bulk liquid oxygen system in the next few months to. 2000 gallon tank liquid ox and a 200 hundred gallon or more propane tank there has to be at least a 4 foot firewall between both tanks according the department of transportation.
    To bad your so far away, I have a 500 gallon propane tank which i no longer have use for as I'm switching my home foundry over to oil.

    When I purchased the LPG tank it was 2/3rds full, paid $100.00 for it - then when that was used up had 50% put in at a cost of $500.00 propane is not cheap in Canada.

    Befor you lay out the cash for that excavator a few suggestions, take samples from the hydraulic system and engine have these annualized - Caterpillar and most of the large truck dealerships Peterbuilt, Kenworth and Mack offer this service also have the machine surveyed by a professional, no harm in having a trained eye go over your machine before signing the purchase agreement.

    From the oil sample they can tell you which part of the engine or hydraulic system is self destructing if it they have a problem, cheap insurance. You do not want to be making payments on a machine that is broken down sitting at the back of the lot.



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    Last edited by gustavus; 12-29-2012 at 09:38 PM.

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