It has ARRIVED! NEW MACHINE! Out with the Old, In with the New 

She didn't seem to be real thrilled to see the new machine even though she'd givin' her blessing for Mike to get it. 😁

I liked your comment While watching Mike going over his new excavator I was thinking how we’ve moved on over the years With all the qualities of these new compact m/c’s Of course when quarrying or open cast mining etc the big monster m/c’s are still as amazing 🤩

Hey Mike, thanks for going over the new machine !! Even I was excited about your new "toy" !! Sure has a few extra improvements on it and I can hardly wait to see it in action !! Mind you, you are a very experienced operator and that's definitely a BIG plus !! Happy days ahead !!

Kinda reminds me of when men actually worked! These men today cry for Mommy! It's time for America to man up!

Good morning!

I sent you a email about the track cleaner but never heard back from you

It will need a bigger magnet then just the oil plug😂 they all have been blowing up on with the Kubota engine. It’s a gamble on when it will go. But they are going boom within a few 100 hrs

@@kevink4914 really that’s hard to believe I mean he swears by Kabota but anyway if you say so all I can say is that on all diesel engines you need to see the Godfather of diesel engines which is Gail Banks he has aftermarket parts. Your diesel will never blow up and you will gain twice the power most diesel engines. Problem is the heater underneath the manifoldand the air intake system bank has both of them beyond belief. If you have diesel, I would advise you to look into Gail Banks you can’t go wrong.

That's why there is more black paint on the counterweight end. Easier to match the paint.

Same here

Or tripods.

I thought the same, I figured he was going to get the next size larger machine. Interesting the small changes they made between the previous model and new model, but at least they seem to be useful updates rather than what car companies do...put in a larger touch screen that still looks like a child installed it type nonsense....Never been in an excavator, at 41 years old, I have to admit this past month has been my first time in a skid steer, so....I have no idea what they were like previously and probably won't get into an excavator anytime soon, unless I rent one to clean out a couple of irrigation ditches. I've never really been around equipment like that, up until 2021 I'd never been on a tractor either...until I bought my Kubota BX2680, that's the closest I've had to an actual tractor, other than lawn/garden tractors that just mowed the lawn LOL. What a difference even a sub-compact tractor has made in my home to-do list items....saves so much time and a lot of shoveling LOL. I call my Kubota BX2680 my fancy expensive wheelbarrow LOL.

Thanks 🙂

Forget the old 6.0. Get a 7.3. No bulletproofing needed, and they’ll run hundreds of thousands of miles with basically nothing but regular maintenance. The 6.0s can be ok, but they can also be a complete disaster and huge money pit.

​@@jfitz9624 Not sure I'd want a 7.3 anymore most teenagers are running around in them with the fuel cranked up to "roll coal" trashing the hell out of them....plus they're all hitting the 200k+ mile range now and very seldom do you find one that isn't plagued with problems, and most haven't had maintenance upkeep done on them for years....good engines back in the day, but now they've been through several owners and abused and neglected. Don't really want a new truck either, but it wouldn't be a diesel if I did buy a new truck...not worth the ridiculous upcharge for a diesel, I don't do enough towing to justify a diesel....all the towing I do is light enough that a diesel makes absolutely no sense, and its not very long distance towing either. Now, if I was doing like those hot-shot type drivers, or running long distances a diesel would make sense, but for a weekend warrior/diyer I don't need the diesel. Looking at truck prices is enough to make me just want to drive my tractor around town instead of getting a truck LOL....My current HD truck is 25 years old, 186k on it, and does everything I need it to do, which is to tow my car trailer with my tractor on it a few times a side jobs...don't need an $80k truck for that, and neither do most of the other people out there driving them....but they gotta have that show off look at me truck LOL.