I Bought An Excavator For Five Grand! (It Runs!)
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- I'd been looking at excavators for over a year but they were always out of my price range. My brother in law called me up and said he'd put up the money if I could find on that was priced right. We found this Case 9060B track hoe for about half the price of scrap metal. It needs some love but it will be perfect for the ranch...
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Left out the part that everyone wanted to know...the price 🙄
well if he paid scrap for it, it would have been around $6,860. He said he paid half the price for scrap so around 3k to 4k roughly.
98,500lbs he pays $0.20 for scrap but gets $0.10 for it so either $19,700 or $9,850. Half the price of scrap, when he buys, $9,850, when he sells, $4,925. I'm basing prices on previous vids, not my local.
Check the pressure relief in that track valve,
what a great brother in law
Looking forward to your road building. Perhaps you could start a business for ranchers to hire you to build roads for them.
Y'know, as the boys grow older they can run some of the machines as well. I have friends who drove heavy equipment long before the were old enough to drive cars. One channel I watch on TH-cam now is LetsDig18. That guy (Chris) is an artist with a track hoe. One of his videos, just for fun, has him stacking toilets with a Volvo digger. Awesome touch that man has with a beast!
Keep up the videos. Love watching the homestead develop!
Had to add, noticed the roof has no tar paper on it. Water damages OSB real fast. If waiting for your metal roof then just put a heavy tar paper to keep the OSB semi protected. House looks great. Maybe put the wood burner in to keep house warm while working this winter. House looks great sitting on your property ‼️‼️👍
Boys and their toys! Congrats and good luck with it. Given your skills, I bet you'll get it running in no time.
First thing , get the Shop Manual for that machine . Then check the Hydraulic pressures at the Pump , Control Valves , Left Track Drive , and Right Track Drive . Pressures should all be reasonably close , if not , you'll know where to start checking more closely . Could be bad or worn Control Valve , bad Check Valve , bad Bypass Valve , Bad Drive Motor , or any of a number of things .
How many dollars in "dirt cheap?"
if your going to use it to clear trees make some guards for hydraulic lines
Nice giant case pile of shit. I bet as of now it's sitting broken down.
Too late for standing the walls and putting up the roof on the current building, but will be so helpful on the main house as well. Great find. I am sure it will earn its keep many times over in saved man hours and sore muscles. So happy for you. Happy Thanksgiving and happy Holidays to your family from mine.
+Thomas Russell.....Agreed. The 'best' deals seem to come around just AFTER we needed them the most. Sigh.....LIFE!
Have you performed any cycle time checks? Its a poor mans flow test. If you get it nailed down to a pump you might try utah track and weld down here in salt lake. They have quite the assortment of scrap machines. Of course its hard to know what kind of shape the parts are in coming off a scrap machine.
Sweet machine good luck with it.
Only foolish people talk about their $$$
I just started watching your videos, but really wish you gave details about how much this stuff costs. Especially, when the TITLE of the video touts that you got a great deal, but you never tell us how much it costs!
1/2 of scrap value.
Seriously? I have no idea what the scrap value of an excavator is. Are you marketing your videos to an audience with this knowledge, and therefore has no need for your videos? Clever.
$5000
Bubba
Thanks for reading my mind and posting my thoughts. I don’t know what scrap price was in that area at the time of the video but if I knew what he paid, I could look for similar equipment that sold at Richie Brothers to compare. The title of the video doesn’t match the content because I still don’t know what he paid for it.
Scrap right now has hit 1.95 per 100 weight, which translates to 195 per ton here. That’s 9750 for this excavator and half of scrap would be just under 5000. Google is your friend, you can watch TH-cam but can’t google scrap prices?
it only gets worse..... next is an
autocar and lowboy.
Would love to know what you paid
Wants to put roads in, buys a trackhoe, lol
All we use here
@@gangesexcavating Should work great with what he's wanting to do. I'd take an excavator over a bulldozer every time.
Dozens are one dimensional. An excavator is far more practical for a land clearing operation.
I hope all the repairs go smoothly.
Looks like your excavator has street pads on the tracks...
To get her to crawl the slopes better..
Maybe if needed look at putting some grousers on them... (Check out dozers for grousers vs street pads on track loaders)....
And an easier way to help her to turn..
Is to use the boom to lift the machine up on one end..
So while turning only part of the track is on the ground...
There by not having to slide the whole track...
Remember exvavators aren't slope machines...
That being said...
Run your engine oil levels higher..
Or if you have the resourses..
Switch the engine over to dry sump..
If you can find a swivel for the bucket..
Or
Check out images
Ditch tilting excavator bucket
Or make one...
Life will be easier...
Have fun....
Track drive equalizer pipe should keep it tracking straight, worth reading up on them and checking them out, one of the easier things to look at first.
I don't know if they have anything large enough to work on your excavator...
But I've gotten good prices on hydraulics and others at...
Surplus center.com
Ha! Sounds familiar. I was looking for a track loader, around a CAT 955 to 977 size, and instead bumped into a killer deal on a 32 ton 1998 Daewoo 280LC excavator. 2100 original hours and 80% undercarriage. Has the optional wide tracks, 54" bucket, and a mechanical thumb. Only issues are the center swivel is leaking (working on replacing it now) and throttle management controller is toast. (can run throttle manually, so no big) The rest is cosmetic. (broken glass (replaced), missing left and right side service doors (already fabricated replacements that look factory i65.tinypic.com/34s4i13.jpg ), and in need of a paint job and new decals (will be doing that this summer)) Bought it for $9900
I think my swivel might be leaking also.
Not surprising if it were. That could also be part of your track power loss, if it's leaking between races. Always check the cheap fixes first. Mine is leaking out the top, enough that it expels the grease for the top bearings.
I was going to attempt rebuilding it, and I separated it in the machine. Unfortunately, when I extracted the inner portion, the top bearings (which are not caged) ended up dropping through each seal race, indenting the races and making sealing impossible. Of course, knowing now that this can happen, I'd disassemble differently if I had to do it again.
I thought about having the races welded and re-machined, but the cost of a new unit wasn't that much.
A good addition to the excavator..
Might be a swivel bucket built with a 4/1...
They have quite a few new 4/1 backhoe buckets in
Inland Empire, Ca.. Craigslist
App. $2,000
You have a nice brother in law. I always like to see family helping family. That backhoe is a beast. With any piece of used equipment, you know you are going to have to spend a good amount to fix it. Once you get it up and going it will serve you well for many many years. Good luck. I'm rooting for you and your family.
Great tool - that weight is amazing. I'm sure you'll get those problems fixed on it once your roof and exteriors are sealed in.
RelentlessHomesteading it went bad the right track doesn't work he sold it for scrap
I guess you keep your ears up for parts. If it’s mid 90’s it won’t be massively complicated which is a huge help :o)
Check the swivel but if only 1 side of the travel is weak it could be the drive motor. Check the pressure at both travel motors with the tracks stalled. Looks very sold to be a older case. On your bucket cylinder, cylinders can be repacked if the are leaking and re chromed and straightened if they are physically damaged. On an older excavator you'll want to check for drift in the cylinders and valves and wear in the track link bushings. Its pretty common for excavators to have pretty bad track link bushings which is fine until they break or the pins start walking out.
Fix it and trade it for the biggest loader you can get. Cat 980 is a good size, they build roads dig ponds carry shit kill trees you names a big loader can do it and rubber is cheaper then an undercarriage
Whooh !!! Your TOYS are expensive !! Even at scrap price 98500lbs adds up !!! :)
Great older machine . I would build a blade so you an swap from bucket to the blade for leveling work.
That is a great find! Congrats. It will get worked hard and give you many years of service. Thanks for sharing.
Seeing how handy you are, I’m betting you have that rig up and running strong and dependable. That piece of equipment can do anything and everything you need on your property. Good Luck, I’m thrilled for you 👍 Vinny 🇺🇸
Stop making noises
yeah good call on the excavator... wish i had one like that! that is a very valuable tool to have!
Going to need a bigger shop! But in the meantime, will make a great crane to hoist tin onto the roof!
Nice find......can't wait to see it in action. Hope you had a Merry Christmas
February 6th 2018. Some years ago maybe about 15 years ago they were tearing down his parking ramp several stories high and they had this massive crane like you have but it was bigger what's the weight over a hundred tons because it came in about three different trucks so it just sat there for a couple of weeks. But as long as it was sitting there and it wasn't doing anything they were making money off. They had to replace a part on this this crane. The price tag for a used part was $400,000. So the the hydraulic system was more expensive than the crane itself but they did buy one. I don't know how much they got to tear down the building maybe it was a million dollars. But it was sure noisy.
What a great machine!!!!!
Great video Heath
I was getting gas at the Burger King in town and saw it go by. Had a suspicion it was going to your place, looks like I was right.
Its a welcome mart with a little burger king Restaurant inside of it.
No prob, last Burger King I ate gave me terrible gas!!
What's Going on with it now? Update video please
Great find. I'm sure you'll fix the hydraulics.
Good luck I hope it is not a money pit for you.
same as a link belt 5800. check the drive motors on the tracks. I would bet the oil in the gear boxes has never been changed. no ever services those. they don't take much oil either. under a gallon each. you may also have a bad valve or spring causing problems with the drive motor, or it could be the drive motor but start with the simple things first. link belt and case are the same identical machines made by Sumitomo so parts won't be hard to find at all.
I hope so
i hope you have access to machine shop equipment and welding equipment.. you could create a half width bulldozer pull blade to mount on the boom to assist you in road building. might have to rig up a roller for the arm also. so you can compact the road surfaces.
till you get it fixed.. pull the batteries. put them on a battery maintaining charger. on a sheet of foam sheathing if the batteries are going to be exposed to extreme cold.. build a foam sheathing box to put over them. . check the coolant for the proper percentage of freeze protection.. and get some vinyl boat wrap or use some house wrap and winterize the cab and engine compartment.. hopefully it has solid plugs in where the ram was removed.. not just plastic cap plugs pushed in.
you might also try to park it up on logs so its not sitting all winter in the mud.
looks like you have a great new tool.. biggest on the block..
Just wait $$$$$$$$
Center joint is a common cause of uneven tram. Try that first it dosent cost too much to reseal.
Man, that thing is big. I would have thought a mini excavator would have been a safer choice. You touched on one fact, once it got there, it will not leave. those things are just so incredibly heavy that they are hard to move. Definitely will handle anything you throw at it, but be careful my friend. That much weight makes it easy to slide down the mountain, and that weight can work against you. Good luck with the repairs.
i bet your final drive isn't the problem. Do some track cycle time checks to see if you have a huge difference between the two tracks. my guess is you have a weak pump or motor.
I'm thinking it's a pump as well. They're not cheap. Wish I could find a good used one.
I own a 22.5 acre parcel our summer home sits on and own a Bobcat I used to bring in and spread six 34 ton gravel trains of pulverized concrete to lay the base layer of our 2,400 lft roads and it worked the Bobcat to death ,I lucked into buying a Sky Trak 10054 Tele handler with front down riggers along with a blade ,a jib and winch which makes the machine a crane ,I got a loader bucket a digging bucket and a 12 foot mast ,the machine has the air conditioned heated cab too and I snagged it all for $35,000 ,I brought in eight gravel trains of 60/40 road gravel last spring and spread it all in 2 days with the 54 ft machine ,my brother helped me fab a 6 ft x 8ft vibrating tamp attachment that allowed me to compact the entire road in 4 days ,this year we brought in the final layer of foundry slag and got it spread by the end of October so now all we have left is to bring in the top coat of crushed limestone in the summer and our roads are complete ,all toll I've spent just over $150,000 for roads my cheapest bid was $390,000 .
Hi, thats what I am talking about. Buying a used machine with a new motor is a great idea. I kindof like machines that look used as well. I do the same on an RC level. Also, I subscribed!!
Weak hydrolic track motor, its possible that in some older trackhoes, the swing for the orbit, and the track motors are the same, in older days, ive worked for guys who swapped them out when the swing gets weak from age, some just sit in dirtpits and load trucks, thats why they swap the hydrolic motors out, they do this on Cat machines for sure, maybe thsts what is up with yours
Shelley and kelly? Thats awesome
better get.a.cuting torch cause when it dont go you can cut it up
Best of luck with the new machine!
Cool! I have a Cat 235 which is about 88,000 lbs . It's good for digging hillsides and whatnot although I ended up buying a grader to do proper road building.
Thank God for family...
No reason why somebody wouldn't haul it for you. Unless you didn't wanna pay much.
nice should be big enough to run 1 bucket truck loads ive been on new roads where we were using 40 tone machines and they did 1 bucket filled a 12 cubic meter truck but they were newer with big payments
It's so big ,heavy, old and expensive to move.. that's why you get them cheap. Good for you,hope it works .
Thats a serious machine. Hope its cheap to fix. Keep up the great videos.
Great find May be a pump flow problem good luck and hope you have a very Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Looks like a good purchase to me
Any time you can pick up a piece of equipment for half the price of scrap (especially a case) I know why and you will soon know also.
How come so many of these large machines are so cheap? Is it because of their age? Some mini excavators are pushing upwards of 50,000 used. I keep seeing large machines like CAT 350s for 30,000-40,000, though. I’m assuming this is all about age?
my uncle bought a old grader for the motor , everything basically worked . he pulled the motor to put in his cat and then to make sure none of us could ever use it he drove it into a slew so that everything would get rusted . the main frame is still good and would work for a pull behind grader , the blade has been sold . nice uncle i have hey .
he paid 500 dollars for it .
Pretty easy to find if your track motor is bad, just swap the lines for the left to the right. I'd remove the cover and inspect the right track motor, maybe you got a bad idler wheel.
Ogden Utah?
Sumitomo makes Linkbelt machines also. Poclain used to make case track hoes.
Get a pressure gauge set and check charge pressure usually 300-400psi then check max pressure at right track motor stalled. Should be 3000psi plus. Check hyd oil for bronze iron particles early sign that pump piston shoes are failing. Once metal is in system its impossible to get it out. Often metal will go down into track motors and clog motor spools reducing flow. Lower speed but equal stall torque on right track vs left may be this or rotary manifold internal leak between seal rings. If machine had over 12000 hours pumps are due for rebuild.
Thank you!!! I don't think it has that many hours. I was told about 6k
Good luck looks like great machine with a little work
Excellent score mate. First time I've seen one of your videos. Found you via Kapper Outdoors.
Hey Heath did you ever figure out what’s wrong with this amazing machine, would love to see a follow up video or just some comments if you found anything? Thanks
It's waiting for warmer weather. There's not much wrong other than the front ram. We'll do something soon.
nice! just started watching your videos, they are great i like what your doing with the ranch and the truck is also sweet, looking at getting something similar myself
Wes Cundieff thanks for watching!
You may have told all of your viewers before but how many acres is your farm?
arden routh I think its 40 acres
arden routh 42
i was just looking around and it seems that the final drive may have a removable hydraulic motor.. so you might be able to remove and plug the hoses.. making sure that you don't empty the hydraulic tank out on the ground.. you might be able to fix the blown seals in the track drive hydraulic motor.. instead of the complete final drive.. this site shows final drive with out motor.. or just the motor .amsfinaldrives.com/case/9060/excavator/final-drives. did you end up with a service manual.. if you can do power steering boxes .. you should be able to take apart a final drive you will have to spend the money and get proper hose plugs for it.. hopefully the batteries are inside your house and are charged once in a while.
don't worry about a hydraulic thump, a stationary one will do most of what you want. the price of hydraulic hoses and fitting will kill you. make sure you get eh electrical and hydraulic schematics so you can fix it.
One thing about it..
Stocking the metal roofing on your roof..
Can be a lot easier now..
ahahahahaha -- bet it - is / was a money pit - that old and worn out cheap - was it the final drive or a levers adjustment with the pull one way thing - how much do yu have in it now - thinking about buying one myself - pumps are ridicules priced - and they almost always need them I hear - and never ever mention scrap metal prices - will ruin it for the rest of us -- ahahahahahahaha -- and they say that the maintenance is never really kept up good on the old ones - and every fluid needs to be changed in them when bought - filters need to be changed every year before winter they say - HUH ? ! - wondering how it has held up -
And that aint a 50 tonner...
want to bet
What a FIND.. You are SO Fortunate to have found this Excavator..
Nice machine. I work for a Case dealership in Billings MT. If you need help let me know.
you saved money . you will spend that saved money. you will spend that cash on that girl. but she will be unbeatable ! no def not to much electronics...... pure soul of a machine!
Sounds as if one of the main pumps is on its way out as it tracks to one side
nice . check see if track drives have good oil or watter or mud
Dirt cheap cause the parts for it are rare as rocking horse shat... lol
Nice!!! You are gonna be busy!!!
25-30 grand for a final drive (track) and about the same amount for a main pump drive (tired Hydraulics). Have replaced both of those on different pieces of equipment. Hope it’s just a few bad valves.
I don't know where your buying stuff where ever it is your being cleaned anyway.
You can buy a very good 200 size here that works for that amount of money
Dude someone is ripping you off on parts.
This is a older model so I would recomend finding a parts yard.
That and go aftermarket on the parts.
Good looking Esco bucket!
Hoe is a shorter word and weld some grouser bars on those tracks. You will be shocked at how much better it will climb and work on the slopes. You can also use a wide I beam to either hook to the stick instead of the bucket or grab it once you get the thumb that way you can grade just like having a dozer.
What about welding rebar to the tracks?
more about this
Too cool man!! Can't wait to see the work that bad boy can do for you!
More fun for sure with a excavator.
$50 an hour i have access to any machine shop stuff you need.
gyff jogofl you are a good man to offer help!
That'll pull the truck up the driveway ehh
Nice buy, go big or go home.
Great deal for all. Glad you got another piece of the puzzle.
wow score you got that for under 9k ? thats super swell deal.
Hey can we get an update on it? Im, joining your channel but I was brought here because of the excavator
Waiting for the mud to dry up. I have the ram to fix the bucket. Hope to do it soon. Thanks for watching.
Very NICE GOD SPEED