Economy/Business question

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by herkhorse

allright I'll tell ya.....Cat 988

r u kidding me?



That's pretty friggin' big!! I would have thought tracks and not rubber tars.

[herkhorse]

no sir. not kidding. very big.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by herkhorse

no sir. not kidding. very big.

OK..the backhos.

Kohrings?.....BucyrusErie?...big?

[herkhorse]

we got one big Koehring, and a couple of Hein-Werners circa 1973, big and slow

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by herkhorse

we got one big Koehring, and a couple of Hein-Werners circa 1973, big and slow

Yow.


That's a lot of money tied up in equipment.That's a 1066..I would think?From memory.


Is this like a small scale strip mining kind of thing?

[herkhorse]

Originally Posted by Mortimer

Yow.


That's a lot of money tied up in equipment.That's a 1066..I would think?From memory.


Is this like a small scale strip mining kind of thing?

These are old dinosaurs, nobody wants them any more. But yeah, there is some money there. Cost 700.00 just to change the tire on the loader last week (just the changing part, we used our own spare)

Kind of an open pit mine, the crystals are in holes in the dolomitic limestone.

[Mortimer]

Interesting..you have a geology background?