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Bobcat tractor?
I've been thinking about bringing a bobcat tractor to my place in SQ.
What is the difference between bringing a Bobcat or a dirtbike or quad?
Can I bring it without importing it?
I want to use it to landscape my lots. There are also some large rocks that I want to break with a jackhammer attachment. I'll move the rocks into the
maritime zone for a rock garden.
It will give me something to do when I'm there.
[Edited on 3-10-2008 by fishbuck]
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DENNIS
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Fish....
Import, for sure.
I watched a crew of local workers bust up huge rocks without breaking a sweat. The soaked them with fuel and lit them on fire. Kept feeding the fire
for a while, then, poured water over the rocks. The split into manageable pieces.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Fish....
Import, for sure.
I watched a crew of local workers bust up huge rocks without breaking a sweat. The soaked them with fuel and lit them on fire. Kept feeding the fire
for a while, then, poured water over the rocks. The split into manageable pieces. |
Ingenious!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I watched a crew of local workers bust up huge rocks without breaking a sweat. The soaked them with fuel and lit them on fire. Kept feeding the fire
for a while, then, poured water over the rocks. The split into manageable pieces. |
The way of the Cavemen. Ingenious indeed.
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fishbuck
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Why would it need to be imported.
If you bring a bunch of 4 wheelers in a toybox for the weekend do they need to be imported?
Why would a bobcat need to be imported for non-comercial use?
What happens if I try to cross the border with a Bobcat tractor on a trailer?
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I've been curious about Fishbuck's original question, also.
If my US company owns a backhoe and wants to lease it to my Mexican Corp for some period of time, after which the backhoe returns to the US,
do I need to import the leased hoe ??
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The Bobcat is designed for construction and destruction. Who at the border will believe you just want to ride around the hills? You'll be lucky if
it isn't confiscated for treating them as though they have no sense. What's next? A tank?
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fishbuck
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A tank! I can blast those rocks right outta my way.
DENNIS, you are full of it. Good ideas I mean. How do you do it? 
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If it's something to do work with, it has to be imported to bring it into Mexico....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalou
If it's something to do work with, it has to be imported to bring it into Mexico.... |
Does that mean I have to pay import on my wife ?? 
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And what about fishing gear ??
When I went fishing with Juan, it was so much WORK reeling in all those fish that I had to ask Juan to haul in the last one !!
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Ya, what about recreational work. I'd basically be digging holes for the fun of it.
No one is getting paid for it.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I watched a crew of local workers bust up huge rocks without breaking a sweat. The soaked them with fuel and lit them on fire. Kept feeding the fire
for a while, then, poured water over the rocks. The split into manageable pieces. |
The way of the Cavemen. Ingenious indeed. |
Yeah, worked for Hannibal too, crossing the Alps a couple of thousand years ago on his unsuccessful bid to conquer Rome, clearing the way for the
tanks of the time - elephants
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fishbuck
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Maybe I can use an elephant to move the rocks. Do elephants need to be imported or can I just ride one across the border.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
No one is getting paid for it. |
That would be another problem in their eyes.
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For a combination/addition to your Baja vehicle sales endeavour, I suggest a pick-up. Buy an old camper, gut it, drive your Bobcat in it, curtain all
the windows, secure backdoor with lawnchairs and tell them at the line that your going camping. Except for the Bobcat, I've done this and it works.
Now you have your Bobcat here AND a vehicle to sell.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
For a combination/addition to your Baja vehicle sales endeavour, I suggest a pick-up. Buy an old camper, gut it, drive your Bobcat in it, curtain all
the windows, secure backdoor with lawnchairs and tell them at the line that your going camping. Except for the Bobcat, I've done this and it works.
Now you have your Bobcat here AND a vehicle to sell.
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I was thinking along those lines too.
Wasn't there a post a while back about a guy who disassembled a cement mixer and took it down one piece at a time?
I could put numbers on it and tell them I'm racing it in the B1000. It a new class.
Heck, I might even win!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Fish....
Import, for sure.
I watched a crew of local workers bust up huge rocks without breaking a sweat. The soaked them with fuel and lit them on fire. Kept feeding the fire
for a while, then, poured water over the rocks. The split into manageable pieces. |
I saw a show on the Discovery Channel a week or so ago, and they think that is how the Egyptians quarried rock (with wood for fuel, of course ) Even the long continuous slabs for the obelisks were cut this way. Build a mud
brick wall enclosure where you want the cut, build a fire in the enclosure, let it burn a while, pour on some water, pound on crumbling granite with a
harder rock, repeat.
They did an experiment and it was amazing how much more granite could be broken compared to just pounding on untreated granite with a harder rock.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
I've been thinking about bringing a bobcat tractor to my place in SQ.
What is the difference between bringing a Bobcat or a dirtbike or quad?
Can I bring it without importing it?
I want to use it to landscape my lots. There are also some large rocks that I want to break with a jackhammer attachment. I'll move the rocks into the
maritime zone for a rock garden.
It will give me something to do when I'm there.
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I think you pretty much spilled the beans on your intentions with this 1st post Fish.
You are bringing the Bobcat down to do work the locals can surely do. Thats a no can do. You can only do work that is not available by some means by
the locals, which would mean by hand or fire or whatever, even if its way slower and not fun for you.
You are planning on leaving it there to work with when "I'm there", which means you are importing it.
Its an innocent idea of yours IMO but I think it could be considered illegal by Mexico.
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actually there is a bobcat for rent here in mulege
price with driver is $50 an hour when working
delivered to your construction site
dumptruck for the "spoiles" can come with it too
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