Mini Excavator Questions

   / Mini Excavator Questions #101  
Can use excavator for that too.


I did you it to remove the old deck and was planning on using it to set my elevated beams so I'm on board with that!
Thanks for sharing!
 
   / Mini Excavator Questions #102  
With all this talk and photos you all are making me want to get mine out. Haven't used it in a few weeks and now want to go dig up a tree or something! LOL

Figured it was too wet to work on the deck today so I got the mini out and dropped a dead tree by the shop. Stump was a bit over 8' and the darn hole is a good 5-6' deep on the high side.....
 

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   / Mini Excavator Questions #103  
No dought in NH this year.

I got the little tractor stuck try to turn over the garden, Yanked it out with the L39. It will be weeks before it is dry enough to plant. A real mess.

I wouldn't dare going in the cow paddock with anything that did not float.

6" of wet snow in Warren NH last night, while Tuesday it is supposed to be in the 90's! Hello, May flys! Too wet to consider painting or working on the Gazebo.

Excavator has been parked down my driveway for 2 weeks now. I was cleaning out brush and stumps off the road as far as I could reach, but it is so muddy it is like stiring pudding. I want to haul away the brush with the L39's grapple, but it is so muddy, I end up sliding over the embankment where I dump.

No red neck tan this year so far, but great weather for pulling stmups as the ground is soft. Just do not get stuck.
 
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   / Mini Excavator Questions #104  
Having the same problem here - can't get over the hill to stick the stump in the valley. Everything is greasy here due to all the rain. Hopefully it will dry up soon so you can get out there and get your work done!
 
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#105  
Figured it was too wet to work on the deck today so I got the mini out and dropped a dead tree by the shop. Stump was a bit over 8' and the darn hole is a good 5-6' deep on the high side.....

Wow! Did you push it over without having to do any digging?

Finally got work started on the new home for the mini ex.

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   / Mini Excavator Questions #106  
No Sir - did have to dig the three sides about 4 or 5' down on two sides and 6' on the other. Think I had about 40 minutes in it total but I was being extra careful due to my shop being 25' away!
 
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No Sir - did have to dig the three sides about 4 or 5' down on two sides and 6' on the other. Think I had about 40 minutes in it total but I was being extra careful due to my shop being 25' away!

Were you using your 12" bucket? I got one of those recently and it works well without having to dig a giant hole in cases where a ripper won't do so well with trees that have big rootballs.
 
   / Mini Excavator Questions #108  
No offense but I have to say that is NOT a good idea. Mostly you step on the track to exit and mount the mini ex and especially if you have it lifted for cleaning. Plus while it is up if they hydraulics slowly leak down (they often do) it could get real interesting if the tracks are running due to the wedge.....

I agree with your concern. No problem till something happens to complete the link. Hose on washer catches in the moving track, dogs runs into you knocking you into the moving track, worse you step away to answer a phone or to refuel the washer and a child or someone else shows up and is caught by the moving track.

Surely you have someone who can sit in the cab and run the track for you a few minutes.
 
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#109  
What size ditching/grading bucket would be good for a u55? Is a 42" bucket too big?
 
   / Mini Excavator Questions #110  
What size ditching/grading bucket would be good for a u55? Is a 42" bucket too big?

That would no problem. I use a 36" on a KX91 (around 7500lbs) I have the heavy duty one ( almost 600lbs) and full of wet clay at full extension it is a little much but a machine your size would have no issues with it or even a 48". Just remember that sometime the wide bucket is too big for the angle or area you are in and it makes it harder to grade with it than a slightly smaller bucketload
 

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