Had our oldest backhoe out along a ditch next to a lake picking rocks and the boom finally broke for good. Luckily the cylinder held or else the whole front half would have been in the lake. Guess its time for a new boom. I know some people post about there jobs and this is one of my others. Get rocks for free and sell them.
bummer, must have been this silly cold front we just got looks like she could use a coat of wax though
Finished her up. Just over $1800 into it. $1600 for the boom, and a few hundred for a small new "rubber" line and a lot of oil. Got $260 at the scrap yard for the old boom ($230 a ton). Saved myself $550 for another new line by welding in a $6 piece of pipe, lol. I sold a rock today for $1100 and 5 truck loads at $750 each so it paid for itself today, lol.
what the? mind telling me how you got into that. I am surrounded by rocks out here in this god forsaken place. Would be nice to make some extra ends here and there LoL. Sweet deal though man.
nice. so let me get this right.. you tool along on someone(s) water line dig up rocks and sell them to the folks that dont have a big yellow thing to pick them up for them selves? remind me not to buy Lake Michigan water front near you
do you have any photos of what an $1,100 rock looks like? Must be a huge almost perfectly round boulder that someone plans on using in the front yard i guess.