Which digger for farm work?

[SeanL62]

l am looking for an older digger for land drainage and general farm work, have a couple of slatted tanks to dig out. I have looked at a komatsu pc 120 -5 from 1992 or 93, has1100 hours on the clock. Tracks and undercarriage have been fully overhauled lately. Perkins engine seems good. Generally tidy well cared digger for age. It has been on a small building project for a number of years and hasn’t done much. I know the chap who drove it for a week lately, he see’s no fault with it apart from the fact that it is much slower than a Hitachi 120-1. I have a friend who operates a hitachi -1 120, super machine, lively and plenty of power, he thinks this particular komatsu is a slow outdated machine. I know of a komatsu 12 tonne locally with a komatsu engine that gave good service . This machine will be around €10000 which would only buy a rough hitachi. Any advice on the different versions and years of these komatsu diggers and what to look out for would be appreciated. Have access to hitachi buckets, can a quick hitch be fitted to bring the komatsu up from 60 mm to 65ml pins. Looking forward to your replies.

 

[carrot]

I brought a komatsu pc120.-5 about 12 years ago to dig some fishing pools out.
It's been a brilliant digger and still going strong if a I was looking for another digger I would certainly look at another komatsu

 

[Hilly]

Pays your money takes your chance I’d say , not matter what breed condition prob more important .

 

[Thomas5060]

Older komatsu are a good digger, just be wary of the track motors, very prone to problems

 

[agri knives]

l am looking for an older digger for land drainage and general farm work, have a couple of slatted tanks to dig out. I have looked at a komatsu pc 120 -5 from 1992 or 93, has1100 hours on the clock. Tracks and undercarriage have been fully overhauled lately. Perkins engine seems good. Generally tidy well cared digger for age. It has been on a small building project for a number of years and hasn’t done much. I know the chap who drove it for a week lately, he see’s no fault with it apart from the fact that it is much slower than a Hitachi 120-1. I have a friend who operates a hitachi -1 120, super machine, lively and plenty of power, he thinks this particular komatsu is a slow outdated machine. I know of a komatsu 12 tonne locally with a komatsu engine that gave good service . This machine will be around €10000 which would only buy a rough hitachi. Any advice on the different versions and years of these komatsu diggers and what to look out for would be appreciated. Have access to hitachi buckets, can a quick hitch be fitted to bring the komatsu up from 60 mm to 65ml pins. Looking forward to your replies.

The 1100 hours probably should read 11,000. Tracks don’t need overhauling at 1100 hrs.

 

[Sparkplug]

Probably more used and reconditioned parts around for Hitachi - I would be very nervous of any major problems on the Komatsu in the future as parts are going to be more expensive IMO.

 

[Classichay]

For those hours I’d say it’s possibly been round the clock or clocked tracks shouldn’t need to be overhauled at those hours would make a digger crazy to run from new on some of these big sites

 

[SeanL62]

For those hours I’d say it’s possibly been round the clock or clocked tracks shouldn’t need to be overhauled at those hours would make a digger crazy to run from new on some of these big sites

Hi everyone, sorry my mistake , that was 11000 hrs on the clock. Thanks for the replies folks