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Excavator advice
May 12, 2006
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What kind of rocking and rolling do you experience with that 200 Hitachi-Non LC? How does it affect your demo activities?

When you are stretched out or reaching it tends get a tippy feeling, its not going anywhere but compared to the same machine with an LC caridge its not as solid feeling.

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Our first excavator was a 200 Hitachi-Non LC or short track machine. Its 9'4 wide and folded up it will go into most warehouse roll up doors, great for interior mezanines and gut outs, but its heavy enough to run our 4000lb allied breaker and wreck multi floor buildings and can be hauled behiond a roll off with a 3 axle trailer and a permit. This is the last short track machine we will buy due to the constant rocking and rolling of the short undercarrige. When buying our first machine I wanted to cover as much posible scope with one machine as we could.

When you are stretched out or reaching it tends get a tippy feeling, its not going anywhere but compared to the same machine with an LC caridge its not as solid feeling.

May 12, 2006
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What kind of rocking and rolling do you experience with that 200 Hitachi-Non LC? How does it affect your demo activities?

May 11, 2006
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Our first excavator was a 200 Hitachi-Non LC or short track machine. Its 9'4 wide and folded up it will go into most warehouse roll up doors, great for interior mezanines and gut outs, but its heavy enough to run our 4000lb allied breaker and wreck multi floor buildings and can be hauled behiond a roll off with a 3 axle trailer and a permit. This is the last short track machine we will buy due to the constant rocking and rolling of the short undercarrige. When buying our first machine I wanted to cover as much posible scope with one machine as we could.

May 11, 2006
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First off Welcome to the Forum!

Well depending on how much demolition versus digging you do, I would maybe look into getting a machine in the 17,000# - 19000# range like a Cat 308C. It

May 11, 2006
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I'm in the residential renovation business and need to demolish parts of houses from time to time. I see the need for an excavator of some sort but want your advice on size, weight, etc. I want the machine to be able to dig footers, trenches, etc. as well as handle demo and truck loading. Anyone been down this road already?

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