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There are perhaps millions of ways through which you can acquire heavy equipment to meet your business needs. However, the real question is which way is the best way. You can’t just test and try each way to find out your best way. You may just ruin up everything if you wonder to take up that option. On the contrary, what is required to be done is you need to understand your requirement and on the basis of that check your resources and finally take the call on what you should be doing. Having lot of options does not mean that you are going to try them all. It simply means that you will never run out of it and will always have something that will go exactly the way you want it to.

We will be referring to few options that one can take when he sees the need to procure heavy equipment.

Buy a brand new one:-

This is perhaps the most common option that you may get. Buying brand new heavy equipment has a lot of advantages as well as disadvantages. It lasts long without much maintenance issues; is pretty high on performance, saves good deal of money when it comes to spending on maintenance and proves to be a reliable machine. Having said this, it also has few demerits, the biggest being its cost. Not many are able to afford the price of brand new heavy equipment or even afford to approve a loan for it. So you will find a good chunk of people failing to pass the preliminary prerequisite which is to have sufficient funds at their disposal. So let us move on to the next available option.

Buy a second hand machine:-

If not a new heavy equipment then the next best option would be to buy a second hand at a lower price. However, if one does buy a second hand machine, then the advantages that we spoke about for buying a new machine will act as a disadvantage in this context. It is very oblivious that a second hand machine will not deliver like a newer model and will have lot of maintenance issues. It also depends on how its previous owner used the machine and what care he took to lengthen the life and health of the machine. It is ideally this that defines your experience with a second hand machine. However, the irony will be that you will not come to know the correct history of the machine as long as you start experiencing issues with it. Therefore at times this option may the most apt one but it can’t be forever.

Take it on rent:-

The third option may be a little user friendly. Here you use a machine without owning it and pay an amount to the owner that has been agreed upon before you start using it. There are lots of people who want to let out their machine and make some money out of it. If you have a project where you require the machine during the initial phase, you can rent one and return it back once you see your job is completed.

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