[TheForge] 5 HP Motors

Thu Jan 29 14:37:00 2004

Try scouting around the local state or municipal heavy equipment shops. It's
more cost effective for most large operations to just replace hydraulics
than rebuild them. When you factor in shop time, down time and parts, buying
new is often several times cheaper than rebuilding.

I have a respectable stash of rebuildable hydraulics mined out of the scrap
bin at work.

Frosty
------------------------
If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Silver" <[email protected]>
To: "theForge" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: [TheForge] 5 HP Motors

> Hello all,
>
> Well, to keep myself out of trouble I've spent the last week or so
planning
> on building a log splitter. Unfortunately after pricing the motor and the
> hydraulics I'm starting to wonder if I'm not going to spend as much to
> build it as I would going to Home Depot and buying one outright.
>
> So far I'm looking at about $350 for the hydraulics and about the same for
> a 5 HP motor.
>
> Does this sound about right, or am I getting prices that I could/should be
> able to find much lower by doing some creative looking? Would anyone have
> ideas on where I could/should be looking? Right now I've only been
checking
> local stores and the web, and these are prices for new items. Should I be
> looking at remanufactured items, or are there places that I'm not thinking
> of that tend to have old useable motors or hydraulics lying around that I
> could get great deals on?
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Silver
>
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