![]() My Dad loves to come out and work my machines. Depending on your ability to learn new things, adjust to the machine and get better as you go, it might take all week, all month or maybe never to get decent at it. While it's all simple and easy enough to do yourself, experience will save allot of time and money from hour one. A beginner will spend allot of wasted time on the learning curve. They do it all the time and don't even think about it. Then you really want the dozer working with the dump trucks to get it spread out and compacted in gradual lifts.Īn experienced crew makes this look simple. You can spread the dirt any time, so that can wait until the digging and moving of the dirt is done, unless you need it for the dam. And to be really efficient, you want to have a dump truck next to the excavator all the time, which means two or three dump trucks. If you are spending your time also running the dump truck, then it's real hard to get any digging done and be effective with the excavator. You are allowed so many hours on that rental, so you really want to get all of them that you paid for. When renting equipment, time is the enemy. While it's possible to do all this yourself, it's very time consuming. ![]() If you need it hauled any distance at all, then you will need a dump truck to move it and a dozer to spread it out. If you dig and dump the dirt right next to the pond, then you will still need a dozer to spread it out. If you bought or rented and excavator, what would you do with the dirt you dug? I second the fact that after a week or 2 of sitting in the seat moving dirt it gets a bit tiring. I went thru approx 900 gallons of diesel last year in the pond renovation. No matter what you get, you'll need a diesel tank to fuel the equipment. Or you could get a KM PC308 or Hitachi ZX350LC-3 (24'-10" or 27' dig depth and weight of 73 to 82K) for $8900/mo. The local heavy equipment rental place will rent almost the same machine (a KM PC228 22' dig depth, 54,000# with a 36", 42", 48", or 54" bucket) rents for $5400 a month. He bought it for 30K, ended up rebuilding the hydraulic pump that drives the tracks, replacing all the hydraulic oil, replacing the starter, 3 hoses and this Spring he replaced the drive sprockets on the tracks. My pond was renovated with a komatsu PC200 I believe - see pics in "My Pond Renovation" thread. $8,000.00 for a rebuilt pump! If you get a good piece of equipment, then it would be worth it, the price of the equipment would probably cost what the pond would cost to build, not to mention the added expense of fuel, grease, and other equipment needed to move the dirt from where the excavator piles it to it's final resting place. ![]() Fer instance, a buddy's neighbor bought an excavator and the hydraulic pump went bad. If you don't know what you are looking at to buy, and something breaks, then it could get really expensive in a hurry. Call or stop by today for out-the-door pricing on all of our equipment for sale or equipment for rent.I second the rent vs. We strive to provide our customers with excellent assistance in parts, service and sales. Stop by one of our convenient Hendershot Equipment and Rental locations in Decatur & Stephenville, TX for rental equipment that will get the job done! You can find attachments and work site equipment for rent to pair well with your own equipment. We also offer light tower rentals, skid loader rentals, wood chipper rentals, trencher rentals, boom lift rentals, scissor lift rentals & telehandler rentals. We have a large selection of rental equipment to suit your needs including backhoes for rent, lifts for rent, excavators for rent, skid steers for rent & compact track loaders for rent. Hendershot Equipment now offers rental equipment at both of our locations. In fact, we not only offer equipment for sale. We offer a wide variety of equipment, but also pride ourselves in offering top name brands like Case IH, KIOTI, JCB, Vermeer, Mahindra, Polaris, GEHL, Hustler Turf Equipment, Genie, Rhino, and STIHL lawn equipment. In addition to new and used tractors for sale, balers and hay equipment for sale, Hendershot Equipment and Rental also offers construction equipment for sale and Polaris ATVs, Rangers, UTVs for sale. Hendershot Equipment and Rental is a premier agriculture equipment dealership in Stephenville & Decatur, Texas.
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