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LaSalle County approves $156,000 John Deere backhoe after transmission failure
Summary
The county approved buying a John Deere 410 backhoe for $156,000 after the existing machine suffered a transmission failure; officials described remaining capital funds and prior equipment sales.
LaSalle County approved the purchase of a John Deere 410 backhoe for $156,000 for the Highway Department during its May 21 meeting.
County Highway Department staff said the department’s current backhoe experienced a transmission failure and that repairing it would cost about $30,000 while the machine’s resale value previously had been about $22,000. “Our transmission, our current backhoe went out,” the Highway Department staff member said, and the…
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