For people with too much money?

[jjp8182]

I didn't know they had an electric version. I was watching them use the bucket to clean up the mess from the tree installation and they were constantly powering it on and off. I thought "that can't be great, just let it run for the 2 minutes". An electric version would stop that issue, or a lot of the wear it causes.

Might just be a good investment with the other matainance batteries remove.

Not a lot of of them currently on the market, but it seem like there's a growing number of electric versions of both these and mini/micro(?) excavators -- mostly seem to be aimed at the interior demolition/remodeling industry from what I've seen.

 

[Jstpssng]

When I was landscaping 35 years ago they had a somewhat similar tool for a lot less money... me with a wheelbarrow. That was a very short lived career.

 

[caver]

I considered renting a Dingo to move and level gravel in a barn. Getting the tractor in there and turning was a bit difficult.

 

[4570Man]

When I was landscaping 35 years ago they had a somewhat similar tool for a lot less money... me with a wheelbarrow. That was a very short lived career.

Maybe in the short term but you’re probably going to pay the wheelbarrow guy in a year maybe a little longer what the mini skid cost. Sure it still needs an operator but you’re getting way more done.

 

[Diggin It]

When I was landscaping 35 years ago they had a somewhat similar tool for a lot less money... me with a wheelbarrow. That was a very short lived career.

Maybe in the short term but you’re probably going to pay the wheelbarrow guy in a year maybe a little longer what the mini skid cost. Sure it still needs an operator but you’re getting way more done.

I don't think the hourly rate for manual labor was very high 35 years ago.

 

[4570Man]

I don't think the hourly rate for manual labor was very high 35 years ago.

Well I don’t really care what the rate for anything was 35 years ago since we’re not paying rates for 35 years age. I don’t think there was much in the line of mini skids 35 years ago either.

 

[bunyip]

Very popular here for landscaping and reno work on small blocks, demolition crews use the full size bobcats, access is the big thing with them with new developments where I couldn't get the BX between the house and the fence.

 

[Alien]

As Bunyip says. Plenty around over here used by landscapers and hire companies.

Mini Bobcat Hire – Jim's Diggers

Rent Mini Loaders | Transport Earthmoving Equipment - Kennards Hire

I know there was a local company building these a few years ago. They were the first ones I knew about.

Rent starting about $195 for 4 hours.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I am a landowner/farmer and I would love to have one, and could justify the cost.

For me, I would attach it to my Wallenstein Log Trailer. In that manner it would propel my log trailer in a tracked, articulated sort of way, but allow me to have a bucket on the front, then my dump trailer behind me, with my backhoe. It is being pulled by tracks, with a smaller engine that would save on fuel. In this configuration if I wanted to load the dump trailer faster then what I could with the backhoe, I could unhook off the trailer and load it with the front bucket of the Dingo...like down at my gravel pit or something.

But if I was operating it as a log trailer, the tracked machine would go through mud and snow, yet have the weight of the wood off the ground so I could move bigger loads of wood, not to mention keeping my logs clean and out of the mud. That is important when sawing logs on your own sawmill. More than likely, the Dingo has plenty of hydraulics too, so mounting hydraulic motors on the log trailer wheels, I could put tracks around the trailers twin bogie wheels and have a (4) tracked, articulated tractor that was small. Talk about a machine that could go anywhere!

As far as farming goes, a person could have the same thing, but have a 3 point hitch that was set onto the log trailer. Again it would be a (4) tracked machine that was articulated. The tractive effort to size would be amazing, so it could not only tow wider tillage equipment, it could go through mud, and not have compaction issues.

If a engine was mounted on the back of the log trailer, a person could have a pto, so the machine could power a flail mower, rototiller, bushog, winch, etc. Once again, it would be a (4) tracked, articulated machine with a low center of gravity.

It would really be an amazing tractor with a lot of capability.

 

[dodge man]

I think they have pretty good hydraulic flow compared to smaller tractors.