Moving a mini ex short distances

[NORTON'S SHOP]

To cutting your walking in half, buy another mini-ex and stage it on the other side of the property. Duh!

You beat me to it!

 

[purplezr2]

How about this…

 

[scooby074]

How about this…

Look at that tailgate lol

 

[pvanderlugt]

Was in Europe, driving behind a wheeled excavator…damn thing was doing 50kph….. towing a good size trailer, with a large diesel tank, bunch of different buckets and attachments, as well as some wooden matting/beams…. Going to a job site, couple of towns down…..pretty cool.. never figured out why they never caught on here… seems like a perfect tool for city/municipality, digging up smaller electric/sewer/water projects…

 

[mike93lx]

Was in Europe, driving behind a wheeled excavator…damn thing was doing 50kph….. towing a good size trailer, with a large diesel tank, bunch of different buckets and attachments, as well as some wooden matting/beams…. Going to a job site, couple of towns down…..pretty cool.. never figured out why they never caught on here… seems like a perfect tool for city/municipality, digging up smaller electric/sewer/water projects…

I see wheeled excavators around, for exactly the uses you described

 

[ATC]

I see wheeled excavators around, for exactly the uses you described

Backhoes accomplish the same around here.

 

[PCustoms]

I see wheeled excavators around, for exactly the uses you described

Or town has one, ditch work, clearing downed trees and tonight it was parked a long ways down a class 3 or 4 road, looks like they're fixing a bad washout.

Definitely not practical to trailer around constantly

 

[roc_on_the_rocks]

I stopped reading when you didn't even bother to calculate the time required to accelerate and decelerate.

Hack

Yep. And the effects of varying head winds.

 

[PugetDude]

Yep. And the effects of varying head winds.

Unless we know the make and model of the mini excavator we will be unable to ascertain the relative aerodynamic properties that will impact the time required to traverse across the lawn with the available horsepower (measured at at the final drive.)

 

[PCustoms]

Unless we know the make and model of the mini excavator we will be unable to ascertain the relative aerodynamic properties

Is it an African mini excavator or a European mini excavator?

 

[ATC]

Is it an African mini excavator or a European mini excavator?

OP said it was of Asian descent


So, smaller and more aerodynamic than the taller African or fatter European mini-exs

 

[Renegade1LI]

Was in Europe, driving behind a wheeled excavator…damn thing was doing 50kph….. towing a good size trailer, with a large diesel tank, bunch of different buckets and attachments, as well as some wooden matting/beams…. Going to a job site, couple of towns down…..pretty cool.. never figured out why they never caught on here… seems like a perfect tool for city/municipality, digging up smaller electric/sewer/water projects…

We have a cat m322, very popular in the city, 50k machine goes almost 20mph. It also digs down 21' max and has hi flow hydraulics. It's registered special commercial and can be driven on and off site with ease.

 

[finn]

We have wheeled excavators in SoCal, but I have only seen the a few times on freeway projects. They certainly aren't popular and I have read that they don't have much capacity or have other downfalls to where they aren't very desirable.

A rotating excavator bucket, on the other hand, would be really cool at least on small machines. They don't get any love here either. We did get a tilting finish bucket for that miniex and it was great for grading walking trails through fish and wildlife sensitive habitat where the width was just wide enough for the backhoe to run material but we couldn't trample all the vegetation along the sides of the path to work from a better angle or run a larger machine.

Operators across the pond seem to be able to get a lot done with their attachment system.....at least in the few videos I saw on YouTube.

Wheeled excavators are almost standard equipment here for County road maintenance. The are indispensable for cleaning ditches. They aren’t fast for traveling from the shops to the project site of the day, but they don’t require a lowboy and truck driver either.
It’s not uncommon to see them driving down the highways. They’re often left on site for projects lasting more than a day, and presumably the operator catches a ride back to the shop with the foreman or engineer in charge.

 

[finn]

Yep. And the effects of varying head winds.

Probably not much effect on top speed, as these things operate on the governor overrun curve during transport, so the engine speed doesn’t vary much.

 

[mike93lx]

Probably not much effect on top speed, as these things operate on the governor overrun curve during transport, so the engine speed doesn’t vary much.

I thought that was the sound of the head wind, but it was actually the sound of the joke flying over your head

 

[finn]

I thought that was the sound of the head wind, but it was actually the sound of the joke flying over your head

I did get the joke, but not many here even know what a governor overrun curve is.

That apparently includes you.

 

[PCustoms]

I did get the joke, but not many here even know what a governor overrun curve is.

That apparently includes you.

I don't remember that scene, was it before or after the shrubbery?

 

[finn]

I don't remember that scene, was it before or after the shrubbery?

Maybe it was edited out since the original release 51 years ago.

 

[PCustoms]

Maybe it was edited out since the original release 51 years ago.

Somehow they must have buried it

 

[danfromsyr]

the obvious answer is

 

[PCustoms]

the obvious answer is

So obvious....

Maybe i should have been more clear.. i dont want to tow a larger weight trailer with my truck as it will ruin my lawn .. thus the atv.

 

[alfadan]

Yes mine is slow. Gives me time to think about wtf am I doing with my life.

 

[PCustoms]

Yes mine is slow. Gives me time to think about wtf am I doing with my life.

Do you ask yourself

 

[danfromsyr]

Do you ask yourself

what happens if you don't have any quarters?

 

[PugetDude]

what happens if you don't have any quarters?

You do have to be THIS TALL ---- to ride.