just be aware that it's not just that $1,500 a month or that $80,000 payment.

There's other things to consider.

Welcome back, everyone, to Midweek Modern Craftsman,

where this week I'm doing a follow-up episode to my initial Excavator podcast. So April 23rd, 2025, I recorded a podcast titled

Making Moves, My Excavator Investment, where I got into my purchase, discussed why I purchased

it, what I intended to use it for, the behind purchasing it so I wanted to follow up here

I had a bunch of people when we posted this at YouTube who had some questions about it how I feel

about it now that it's been six months it's been a year so I want to take some time to hop on here

and discuss what that investment looks like how I've been using it if I would purchase it again

all those type of details.

So let's get into that. My initial podcast just dives into why I purchased this, getting over the

hump of the financial investment, what my intent was with it, how I intended use it, getting more

familiar with the machine, becoming more efficient with it, everything else like that,

why I purchased the machine I did. So it's a 2024, I believe, KX, Cabota KX-040-4, that I purchased from my buddy Brian over at Cherry Valley Tractor in Marlton, New Jersey, where I've also purchased a

B-2650 tractor and a 60-inch zero-turn. I forget, it might be called a Z-726 Cabota zero-turn

mower, which was my first investment with them.

And what's really nice about the Cabota most of the time, most of their equipment is

0% financing.

So you're not borrowing a ton of money with a high interest rate.

What you do have to have when you purchase it is some sort of insurance on the

equipment. You can either go through Cabota. For the other, for the tractor and for the mower,

it was relatively inexpensive to go through Cabota. So I did that for this. The insurance was

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