Backhoe Input Please! "Constructive" Positives and Negatives

Yup! And I'm not buying a $75,000 truck to pull it! I'm living on Retirement pay, remember! And, not getting payed! For a month...

 

I've been pricing folks to move it for me.

 

For the record, those tires are pretty! If anything else...

 

If you can get it on a trailer, get it to Pa (Hatfield), I can have it towed to NY where I'd pick it up in June and drop it on location in Nh, or bring it here for the g2g. Lemme know

 

Ten year old 3/4 ton with a 6.0/6.2(did it even exist then?)/6.4 gasser would do a fine job of moving that machine every blue moon.

 

I gotta 2009 1/2 ton Dodge with a 4.7 and 157,000 miles..... Nope..... Ain't happening

 

Thanks Brian, I'm pricing out some folks up in NH and down here. I "may" have a bite from a guy in Manchester who hauls to NJ, he may run down and pick it up. Working it out.

 

So.... It doesn't need to be registered like here in the communist dictatorship of New Jersey? Wow, you mean it won't cost me $155.00 a year? To own...

 

It most likely will never leave my yard unless it needs a repair to big for me to handle. *EDIT* I only have a bill of sale for the tractor. They're was never a title to it from what I was told. If there was, God only knows where it is...

 

Wait until you come up, you'll think you died and went to Heaven.

 

From what stuckinthemuck sent me and I've read more, it appears in New Hampshire they are very lax on work/farm/construction equiptment. I'll be happy to register it for $50.00. Hell, My ATV is $37.00 and my trailers are $29.00 each.

 

I'm trying Buddy!!! It's a process. Gotta work with the $$$ so I don't get my @$$ in Debt. It's gonna happen but I'm gonna minimize it as much as possible. I "HATE" owing people/banks, I realize it's part of life but you have to know me to understand, "I/we" owe very little. Only a car payment, and of course the normal bills, taxes, electric, insurance, etc...

 

Found some more pics of this mess, may make some of you cry! Yes, it got flooded/covered over by "Salt water" when the tide came in. In the last pic, notice the shovels far left, that was the high tide mark "Without" a full moon. It usually goes up into the street/dirt road with a full moon. That day that machine was almost completely under for 4 tide cycles till they finally craned it out with two 80 ton cranes that were brought in.

 

Yesterday I started repairing the bucket, I have a dear friend let me use his shop and I Plazma cut a couple scab pieces 1/4" for each side of the bucket. Should last me the rest of my and it's life. Got one side done, I had to make them fairly large because most of that old metal was paper thin and rust. Any of you guy know how much fun that is to weld to! Anyway, gott'r done, enjoy the pics. Oh, and I won't tell you I was welding in Sneakers and had a 2500º booger go in my shoe, so I invented a new dance I'm sure many of you are familiar with!!!