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Offers and wants: Mini Digger wanted

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    • CommentAuthorborpin
    • CommentTimeMar 2nd 2012
     
    Hi Folks, anyone got a mini digger they want to sell on?

    Cheers
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    You could have mine as it was bought for a specific drainage job. Unfortunately its proved so useful I would now be lost without it.
    • CommentAuthorJonti
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2012
     
    Hi borpin,

    with the building industry as it is there should be plenty of mini diggers about at good prices. Try looking at auction house websites,

    Jonti
    • CommentAuthorSteveZ
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2012
     
    Try the Hire Shops, as they turnover their hire diggers regularly and sell them on. No doubt a tax concession involving depreciation :smile:
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2012
     
    Sorry, bit O/T but re renewablejohn's comment: has anybody else noticed that if you buy a tool thinking that'll be useful for all sorts of things you never actually use it whereas if you buy one for a specific purpose you finish up using it all the time?
    • CommentAuthormitchino
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2012
     
    As a matter of interest, what's the least one could pay for a decent used mini digger?
    • CommentAuthorborpin
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2012
     
    Well I have been looking for a while, Plant Mart and Ebay mostly - virtually nothing (compared to before Christmas) and all at exorbitant prices. I have though managed to secure a digger through Ebay which looks in pretty good nick plus a trailer for just under £5K. I think that was a bargain as I had been thinking I would need to go to about £6.5K to get anything. Still, I need to travel 280 miles to pick it up!

    I'd avoid ex hire shops - I have used and abused hire diggers and the same goes for ex council / lease machines as they are not cared for. I am sure I will get my money back so every day I use it I will think of the £60 I am saving! The other thing is that often you will do a job by hand that will take all day but with a digger it would take an hour.
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    borpin

    Be very careful with the bay as there a lot of scam artists at work on large plant items. (easy money). What size is it as £5k sounds to cheap for digger plus trailer. My 3 tonne Hitachi cost me £6.5k but at least I new the history of it and it had been regular serviced. Trailer for it cost me another £1k and that was seven years ago. I would suggest getting both excavator and trailer serial numbers checked on the stolen plant register prior to you setting off on your 280 mile journey.
    • CommentAuthorborpin
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2012
     
    Yes you are right - you need to be careful. It has a TER and a load of other information I gleaned so I am convinced it is pukka. Just a 1.5T as I didn't fancy lugging a 3T about! However, if I could have found a 3T locally I'd have gone for it as they are less nickable.
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    What do you use to tow the 3T? Max train limits are starting to be enforced down here now. Light boards and all loads tied down etc. I heard that a trailor MOT is just around the corner to, anyone else hear the jungle drums?
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    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: gustyturbine</cite>What do you use to tow the 3T? Max train limits are starting to be enforced down here now. Light boards and all loads tied down etc. I heard that a trailor MOT is just around the corner to, anyone else hear the jungle drums?</blockquote>

    Mercedes 814 7.5 tonne truck registered as a dual purpose vehicle so "O" licence exempt. Only a matter of time before a trailer MOT however there might be an agricultural exemption similar to that for tractors. Enforcement around here is mainly on motorways using the number recognition system. Got stopped towing a tracked chipper but fortunately body of truck was empty so well under gross train limit. Still picked up for defective indicator light on trailer board and given 1 hour to rectify otherwise £85 fixed penalty. Fortunately close enough to drop the trailer and go to the shops to buy a replacement trailer board.
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    Good for you. A friend of mine was stopped last week with a quad bike on a trailor (not secured) no light board and no plate. The officer was going to give him 9 pts unless he sorted in 1hr so the same as your warning. He got away with it this time but he will be a little more cautious from now on. I guess that some farmers etc do take the mickey especially when its is hay time. I have nearly parked in the back of a few tractors with no lights..
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    MOTs for trailers will be difficult unless trailers have their own identity - i.e. trailer number plates, otherwise how do you tell which trailer the MOT is for.
    Then the slippery slope starts 'cos it's then an easy step to road tax for trailers!!

    BTW that's what we have here - trailer identity with MOTs and road tax for them.
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeMar 6th 2012 edited
     
    Posted By: Peter_in_HungaryThen the slippery slope starts 'cos it's then an easy step to road tax for trailers!!


    Not just road tax, could charge full council tax on caravans, one way to get the Emmets to pay (and the Pikeys).
    Who would like to suggest that to the Lib Dems, got to bet better than the Mansion Tax on property over £2m.

    As an aside, what would stop someone with a house over £2m, selling it to a company (they own) for a fraction under and then buying it back, they could sell it for less than the stamp duty limit when it comes back in later this month.
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    Hi,
    If you are still looking for a mini digger, I have a Komatsu 1.5 ton, I bought for a job and no longer use.
    If this interests you give me a call 01450880221.
    Regards Ian
    • CommentAuthorborpin
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2012
     
    Hi Ian, Thanks but got one. Cheers

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