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Watch out for those cheap 'professional' grade stump grinders on online marketplaces
I found a listing for a used stump grinder for $2,800 on a local buy and sell site last month, and the seller swore it was a solid machine. It looked okay in the pictures, but when I got it to a job site, the hydraulic lines blew out on the third stump. The repair bill was over $1,200, and I lost a full day's work with the crew standing around. Has anyone had a decent experience buying bigger equipment secondhand, or is it always a gamble?
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the_sam1mo ago
Man, that's rough... I bought a used trencher off a guy who said it ran like a top. The engine was fine, but the whole feed chain was about two minutes from snapping clean in half... cost me almost as much as the machine to fix it right.
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ben2061mo ago
Ran like a top" is a classic line, @the_sam, I once bought a truck that only ran like a top if you spun it really, really fast.
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