Georgia Iron
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- May 6, 2012
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- USA - Georgia
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- Concrete building slab and grading contractor
I currently have 2 953 A models. Mine have never given me a problem other than normally wear items, such as blown hoses, burnt out exhaust pipes, and wearing the bottoms out. They have never failed to start or run, and have been what I would consider to be an excellent machines.
I have one on job and the customer wants to buy it. His offer is hard to refuse. He has seen the machine work and wants to save some money on future projects. I will loose his work but he will get another machine, he has a 30 acre track he is working on and he wants to put an hourly guy on a tractor. I know my machine just by the vibrations and the sound and I take care of it. Not sure he will get what it has given me but if I sell it I can pretty much buy whatever other used machine is out there. I dont really see too many 953A now and I have heard that the hydrostats are hard to get parts for and too expensive to fix and that the machine are shipping out of country or being decommissioned...
Should I get another newer machine. Do you guys have any thoughts on this. I have been on the fence about letting a tractor that always seems to work go. Even though I realize it will go down at some point. It is a full cat rebuild machine with 4500 hours on it...
What would you do ?
I have one on job and the customer wants to buy it. His offer is hard to refuse. He has seen the machine work and wants to save some money on future projects. I will loose his work but he will get another machine, he has a 30 acre track he is working on and he wants to put an hourly guy on a tractor. I know my machine just by the vibrations and the sound and I take care of it. Not sure he will get what it has given me but if I sell it I can pretty much buy whatever other used machine is out there. I dont really see too many 953A now and I have heard that the hydrostats are hard to get parts for and too expensive to fix and that the machine are shipping out of country or being decommissioned...
Should I get another newer machine. Do you guys have any thoughts on this. I have been on the fence about letting a tractor that always seems to work go. Even though I realize it will go down at some point. It is a full cat rebuild machine with 4500 hours on it...
What would you do ?
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