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I had seen thissun on my YouTube selection and ignored it as probably being the usual pile o shite.

I was wrong.

Perplexed as to;

(i)why it was abandoned in the first place,

and

(ii) are they in a stupidly remote area with no scunging light fingered scrappies.

mth

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1 hour ago, ForestryFinance said:

Saw this in my suggestions last night and similar to @difflock discounted it thinking it would be a garbage "restoration" video of a convenient find. Will watch it now. 

Who leaves an excavator lying about and forgets about it...?

As I understand it , from the vid , It was abandoned due to mechanical failure ( maybe the original owner could not afford , or know how to fix it ) the land was subsequently sold and the new owner of the land wanted it gone . Or have I missed something ? 

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12 minutes ago, Stubby said:

As I understand it , from the vid , It was abandoned due to mechanical failure ( maybe the original owner could not afford , or know how to fix it ) the land was subsequently sold and the new owner of the land wanted it gone . Or have I missed something ? 

Yeah sorry I commented before I had watched the video.....now I know because he says it literally right at the start...

 

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1 hour ago, Stubby said:

As I understand it , from the vid , It was abandoned due to mechanical failure ( maybe the original owner could not afford , or know how to fix it ) the land was subsequently sold and the new owner of the land wanted it gone . Or have I missed something ? 

Except, since after 16 years, an absolutely uninformed(but obviously mechanically savvy) individual got it going, and in a very simple straightforward manner, apparently?

So why was it so readily abandoned as being "broken"?

I did wonder did the owner/operator imagine his track motor was shot, ergo beyond economic repair, when in fact it was merely the linkage had become disconnected?

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