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bmxdukie

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Hi folks. I have a small chinese mini ex. Single speed pump, so it cralls pretty slow.
That being said, i want to move it faster to spots on my property than crawling it.
Any ideas on an easy way to move it? Maybe tow it with my atv? Property is dead flat and only 4 acres total.
Thanks in advance
 
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what in the world do you need to move a mini excavator around for on only 4 acres of perfectly flat land?
 
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whateg01 said:
Trailers have been used to move equipment for as long as there have been trailers and equipment. Maybe try that?
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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.
 
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I track mine around, but only have 5 acres and probably half is untouched woods.
It's a 2 speed, rabbit isn't bad if you can handle the seat violating my man bits and the canopy shaking like crazy.
 
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You can't pull the excavator if if isnt on a trailer. Well, not if you want it to work after.

Drive it or put it on a trailer. Or get a chinook
 
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I “road” my little Deere 26G the mile between the shop and the house where I keep it. It does have a two speed drive, AKA a rabbit mode.

I trailered it a few times, but decided it’s faster to pucker up and drive it the mile than to hook up the trailer, load, tie down, drive, unchain, unload, and put the trailer away.
 
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ATC said:
Put casters on the blade, then spin around and put the bucket on the rear rack of the ATV, lift tracks off ground, and start pulling.

*not responsible for damages*
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But OP already said wheels would damage his 4 acre lawn...





I would get a larger piece tracked equipment, pick up the Chinese mini excavator with that, and then move it around the yard at a respectable speed
 
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There is a mod to increase ground speed, it requires a larger pump, then larger motors, then larger pump....
 
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ATC said:
Put casters on the blade, then spin around and put the bucket on the rear rack of the ATV, lift tracks off ground, and start pulling.

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When I was a kid growing up in the 1950's it was common for contractors to haul backhoes around like that. They would put the front bucket in the bed of their dump truck and lift the front wheels off the ground and off they would go to the next job. It probably would give any police officer a heart attack today.
 
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I have fond memories of riding a Steam Shovel when I was being moved, under it’s own power from a job near my Grandmother’s house to a job just a few blocks away, she came and took me back while squeezing my ear.
That was 80 or more years ago.
 
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Just the tip, but for an hour......the tip of the tooth kept the 8k pound mini ex in place until it fell......5 times. There wasn't much for it to hang on to and it was a long way out of the LA river, up that steep bank, and out to the lay down area. When it would drop, my coworker would get in and hook it back on.

If only we had chains, but I was finishing out the last couple weeks of the job and my brother had the work truck on another excavation job he had to start.

The 55k pound excavator was sketchy going up those concrete banks and it wasn't like I could just grab the ROPS on top of the mini with the thumb and bucket.

Both tracks on the mini failed and jumped off at the same time.....about an hour before quitting time. We couldn't leave it in the river over night. We got all the use out of them possible and didn't want to trash new tracks on the rough grouted rock concrete slopes.

Just walk it across the property. I have walked this mini many miles. Some job sites take 20-30 minutes to get to the work location and a trailer often times isn't an option. Actually, this job was that way and I had to walk the mid size 55k pound ex that far each day as well. I think the stretch we did was a mile long and on the second side of the river, we were staged at the very end of the stretch. My brother happened to park it next to my 2500hd CCLB duramax so I snapped a picture. We had a 120k pound ex for one job but luckily only had to walk it maybe a quarter mile across the job site. Rabbit mode really helps and this linkbelt machine was pretty fast.

This loader weighs 45k pounds.....it leaves big ruts as well. There is no free lunch. Just think about not having to use a shovel while walking it across the property. The time will go by easier that way.
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PCustoms said:
Absolutely.

I just used math to calculate the trajectory of that joke as it went right over your head!
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I know it was in jest or sarcasm and that that line came from a movie or something but don't remember which.
Probably dumb and dumber . But idk.
 
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mike93lx said:
I stopped reading when you didn't even bother to calculate the time required to accelerate and decelerate.

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What density altitude should I use?

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I think he also forgot to account for the excavator leaving Chicago
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Where does the other excavator leave from?
 
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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.
 
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The cheap AGT H15 solved a problem for me, I got old, wore out and no longer have any employees, so this is a real nice no debt solution to many projects around the shop. It is what it is and I love it.

Chevy Chase on SNL as Ford?
 
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CGT80 said:
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.
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I was a mechanic for a Volvo heavy equip dealer, and we might have had one out, and I think it was just long term demo. There is so much ****** ingrained mentality here in North America that they really cannot see the benefits of these machines. Throw Unimogs in that list as well. Huge labour and equipment savings .
Yeah sure, tracks are better in the slop and can climb better, but for many jobs, on most jobsites wheels are fine so long as youre comparing size for size.

And Steelwrists (Engcons). Cant begin too tell you how many contractors I told about them. Always the same answer, when told theyre $25k (at that time, IIRC)... Too expensive. Too delicate. etc etc. Yeah but they save multiple labourers with shovels doing hand work. Nobody sees that.

Wheeled Excavators and Engcons are a true game changer IMHO.


 
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scooby074 said:
I was a mechanic for a Volvo heavy equip dealer, and we might have had one out, and I think it was just long term demo. There is so much ****** ingrained mentality here in North America that they really cannot see the benefits of these machines. Throw Unimogs in that list as well. Huge labour and equipment savings .
Yeah sure, tracks are better in the slop and can climb better, but for many jobs, on most jobsites wheels are fine so long as youre comparing size for size.

And Steelwrists (Engcons). Cant begin too tell you how many contractors I told about them. Always the same answer, when told theyre $25k (at that time, IIRC)... Too expensive. Too delicate. etc etc. Yeah but they save multiple labourers with shovels doing hand work. Nobody sees that.

Wheeled Excavators and Engcons are a true game changer IMHO.


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I watch that guy and he's an accomplished operator! There's also Kratek guy or "operator" might be his channel name that I watch as well. Both amazing with a tilt/rotator. I swear they could ice a cake!
He also seems to work in municipal (hard surface) situation. I've never seen him digging out 5 acres of stumps, digging a foundation or "fixing" the creek banks.
There work situations are just different than the needs here in our big wide open country. 👍
I've never been to Europe but my impression is once outside the bigger cities, towns are very small and tight especially to navigate with a tractor and lowboy trailer through the tiny roads where the homes are just a few feet away from a travel lane.
Now let's talk about the Manzi Muck type "walking" excavators! 😅
 
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