Ultradog MN
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- Twin Cities
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Breaks my heart to have done it.
Had it 15 years but hadn't drove it in nearly 4.
Last time I did I walked it a couple hundred yards to where the cab was under a big old maple tree. Was going to was going to use a limb and a rope and pully to put the cab back on.
Showed this pretty girl that I could do it.
I never planned to dig with it again. A guy couldn't here with their restrictive wetlands laws. It would have looked nice at the extinct gravel pit by the highway where I own. Just as a monument to itself. But laying out by the lake, all forlorn and kind of deadly looking it was not an asset at all. Would have cost most of a Grand to move it just a few miles.
I thought real hard about cutting it up. Scrap is real high right now. Thought about saving the counder weights for something I don't whow what.
The bucket would have made a nice flower garden here at home. I even thought about selling the smooth track pads to the yuppies at the Farmers market for fancy footsteps in their Zen gardens.
Had all kinds of plans for the thing.
Of course I had plans when I bought it too.
If you're ever looking for an investment where you get 1/3 of your money back after 15 years an old dragline is a good one for that. Don't use it for your IRA though.
When I bought it and had it dragged up to the lake I had to replace the old Buda with a ford 300 industrial. And then there was cogs and big chains and track tensioners and pins and cables to deal with. And the fairlead. And it took a couple tubes of grease in the greasegun just to spin it up.
And it was a heck of a lot of fun to buy this giant old machine that no one knew how to run. Not even the guy you bought it from. And sit there like a merrygoround and figure out how the levers work and swing that bucket out and try to make it take a gulp.
And get it stuck and make it drag itself out off a couple trees. Both cables pulling and the tracks turning too but you got it out. And tell me that it wasn't a lot of levers to pull on at the same time. And to have to fix the thing and get hot and greasy and spend your darned money on it.
I had a lot of calls on it when I ran the ad. Mostly folks wanted to ask about it. They weren't even real tire kickers.
Several scrappers called but I told them it had to go out of there in one piece. That put the balk on them.
The fellow who bought it says he wants to make it run and he doesn't have a wife so I figured it was a good fit.
I got a check and some cash for it. It's in my wallet.
I don't know why it was so hard to sell the old thing. Like I'm geieving for it.
Writing about it here helps sort it out.
That I did the right thing. Both buying and selling. Like a long fun trip that you took. On a merry go round. And got a third of your money back.
Thanks for reading this.
Breaks my heart to have done it.
Had it 15 years but hadn't drove it in nearly 4.
Last time I did I walked it a couple hundred yards to where the cab was under a big old maple tree. Was going to was going to use a limb and a rope and pully to put the cab back on.
Showed this pretty girl that I could do it.
I never planned to dig with it again. A guy couldn't here with their restrictive wetlands laws. It would have looked nice at the extinct gravel pit by the highway where I own. Just as a monument to itself. But laying out by the lake, all forlorn and kind of deadly looking it was not an asset at all. Would have cost most of a Grand to move it just a few miles.
I thought real hard about cutting it up. Scrap is real high right now. Thought about saving the counder weights for something I don't whow what.
The bucket would have made a nice flower garden here at home. I even thought about selling the smooth track pads to the yuppies at the Farmers market for fancy footsteps in their Zen gardens.
Had all kinds of plans for the thing.
Of course I had plans when I bought it too.
If you're ever looking for an investment where you get 1/3 of your money back after 15 years an old dragline is a good one for that. Don't use it for your IRA though.
When I bought it and had it dragged up to the lake I had to replace the old Buda with a ford 300 industrial. And then there was cogs and big chains and track tensioners and pins and cables to deal with. And the fairlead. And it took a couple tubes of grease in the greasegun just to spin it up.
And it was a heck of a lot of fun to buy this giant old machine that no one knew how to run. Not even the guy you bought it from. And sit there like a merrygoround and figure out how the levers work and swing that bucket out and try to make it take a gulp.
And get it stuck and make it drag itself out off a couple trees. Both cables pulling and the tracks turning too but you got it out. And tell me that it wasn't a lot of levers to pull on at the same time. And to have to fix the thing and get hot and greasy and spend your darned money on it.
I had a lot of calls on it when I ran the ad. Mostly folks wanted to ask about it. They weren't even real tire kickers.
Several scrappers called but I told them it had to go out of there in one piece. That put the balk on them.
The fellow who bought it says he wants to make it run and he doesn't have a wife so I figured it was a good fit.
I got a check and some cash for it. It's in my wallet.
I don't know why it was so hard to sell the old thing. Like I'm geieving for it.
Writing about it here helps sort it out.
That I did the right thing. Both buying and selling. Like a long fun trip that you took. On a merry go round. And got a third of your money back.
Thanks for reading this.
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