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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soutthpaw" data-source="post: 29163" data-attributes="member: 2815">I know what u mean about trying to find one.  As I mentioned before I ended up driving to Reno NV and back to get mine.   I looked at 2 at local auctions but they were both 8709's for the vertical lift machines so I would have to modify them to fit the 753.  Though the specs for the 8709 and 709 were almost identical otherwise. One at auction went for $3750 in ok condition and the next auction had a real nice one but figured it would sell for even more...    I guess they are not popular new due to cost but on the used market there seems to be a big demand for them...   Most of the ones I saw in decent shape were going for $4-7K  Glad to know the 709 can run the 24" bucket without feeling overloaded.   I am keeping my eye out for a wider bucket too as mine had the 12" one now..   However it's still a pretty deep and good sized bucket compared to the mini excavator buckets I have seen at the dealer.   May even buy a used bucket at auction and modify the mounts to fit the 709  Initally I wanted the fold down stabilizers but after getting the vertical stabilizer version I realized that it has benefits too.  for example I am going to be doing some digging between my house and garage which is about 8 feet wide...  so the fold down stablizers would not work in that situation...   One feature I would like to add,  maybe someone has a suggestion is a way to adjust the swing speed of the boom side to side.   saw another brand (bradco I think) and it had a knob to adjust how fast the swing side to side was .</blockquote>

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