B2910 for digging?

[dlockh4258]

I am getting a B2910 with a FEL next month. Is it possible to dig out a basement with this piece of equipment?

 

[MarkV]

David,

Welcom to the forum. As fine as the B2910 is I think excavation of a basement is going to be more than you want to take on. Even with a backhoe that would still be a job better done with heavy equipment. Of course the Egyptians built the pyramids and didn't even have a Kubota./w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

MarkV

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Is it possible to dig out a basement with this piece of equipment?</font color=blue>

Yes, it's certainly possible, but you may not like it?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif How much time do you have to do it in? When we built my brother's house, he rented a Case tracked machine to dig the basement. It never quit on us, but it also simply was not running up to par so we didn't get the job done in the one day we had it rented (rental place refunded part of the rental fee after checking the machine and finding it was running far under normal power). Anyway, I finished the job with a B7100 with FEL and box blade. Could have done the whole job with the little Kubota, but it would definitely have been more seat time than I wanted./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Anything is possible, however, it would depend upon what kind of soil you have and how much time you have. I have a lot of heavy clay at my place, and I tried digging with my LA402 on my 2910 when I got it this past September. It was a waste of time-as the teeth didn't arrive with the loader. I got the teeth about a week later, and installed them, and that was much better, but still not great on any dirt that was packed down, or had never been worked. On soil that had been removed for my basement, I had better luck. Between the loader(with teeth), and the rear blade, I moved many tons of dirt around and did the final grading, etc., around the house. The guys that dug my basement started out with a couple of big Case tractors, and wound up going back to the shop to get a Huge CAT. Between this heavy Missouri clay, and a shelf of limestone they hit at about 6', I would have destroyed my 2910/LA402 and grown old trying.
I really like my 2910, but like anything, it has its limitations.

Don M.

 

[Hoeman00]

I held up my house w/ I beams and dropped
the basement floor 3' while I was putting on
a 2000 sqft. addition last summer.
I used my 250 Deere SSL w/ both
tooth bucket and flat bucket.
It took all day to do the job but also had to
deal w/ old floor and large sandstone blocks
under old house.
I used the trencher on the SSL to loosen
the hard clay around the over dig.
I never got the L 2900 Kubota w/ FEL
out.
This is a job for construction equipment not
CUTs.