Digging with New to us Mini Excavator!
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For a first time, I thought you did very well with the swingy and the tilty and the turny stuff. 😆
Cole is jack of all trades,and Brian in his natural habitat is a very interesting specimen to behold,maybe BBC Earth would like to study this new species.
In your application a buried tile line will prevent animals and people from falling into your open ditch. Using filter fabric will maintain flow for many years to come. Connecting the overflow directly will reduce the amount of mud that is there, and will allow the area to be graded during the drier times. Great first dig Cole. Paul
I think that is a great idea. You already dug the trench, bury in the tile...
a drainage pipe that shallow would likely slowly freeze up in the winter causing a bigger problem
@@jeffquackenbush7433 if the water from the spring is always flowing during winter, then the water will not freeze in a underground pipe or tile
All depends how fast the flow is
@@jeffquackenbush7433 -and how deep
I've run excavator for many years and you actually did pretty good if that was your first time I've seen guys that claim they've been running excavator for years way worse then you just keep putting around after time it becomes easy
"Ditchin' and fixin'"!---Your imaginative camera placements never fail to entertain!
Chains won’t work well on a bucket that small. Only other advice I would give is next time digging a trench that will be in place like that one leave open spots in your windrows of dirt on either side so the water that is standing can get to the trench and away from the ground beside it. Otherwise good job that’s the other way to learn!
Cole, that narrow trench in a pasture may give you trouble. We lost a bull in such a thing - tipped upside down into it and couldn't right himself - an expensive lesson.
Cole I thought you did good for your first time. Practice will make perfect. A good video. Thank you for sharing your day with us.
HI Cole the next time you do that start at the water and bring it with you that way you get the right grade and the water will flow, always a learning process. I enjoy your videos thank for taking the time to make them.
The trouble with starting at the bottom is not being able to judge how deep to dig. If you use a laser level or transit, you can stake the slope and it won't matter where you start.
Its a neat rig. I would change the bucket to a ditch bucket. Not sure that chains will work in that bucket. I would say its less the equipment and more that its not the exact tool for the job. But, you got it done :)
Hey Cole, the bucket you have in UK 🇬🇧 🏴 we use that size shape for digging foundations, and a 3ft wide bucket for clear waterways, with smooth edging blade. Some now put thumb grab. 👍
Hi Cole and Dad Brian hope you are doing good today.Thank you for sharing everything.God bless you all.
My dad is just getting back from up your way, went clear up there to buy 6 of those wind breaks you guys use. We are located in SE KS, it was a bit of drive!
Near Columbus
Another great vlog!! It's always fun to get to play with the big boys toys, just a bit smaller. Give yourself more credit though because you didn't have to call Brian to bring the chains!! lol
You are doing great for just starting. If you just had a little wider bucked would help. Can you add a Thumb to it is needed? When it dries out next summer you can spread out the dirt removed and straddle the ditch and dig out the high spots no problem.
I was going to recommend starting your trench on the “water” end. Keep the water flowing as you dig, it will be at the correct depth. Guess your already done, so it don’t matter!
Cole, you may want to consider coating the inside of that bucket with "slip plate" so the muck won't stick. It'll wear off quick when you work in dry dirt but when working in muck your job will be 100 times easier.
Or diesel fuel… brushed in
Cole My Dad always told me the first guy had to learn to do some time .as long as the water is running down hill and you did not have to be pulled out and you know how to use the boom to pull or push your self out you going to do fine great video thank you.
I'm starting to like the mini ex, real neat! even with 25hp. Love the video 😊
Fun thing to use
I used the water as my level. I’d start at the spring as use the water to tell me the depth I needed to go to keep a flow grade. I salute you for videoing your first try and suffering all the “help” from numbskulls like me. 😜
I eventually got a ditch bucket for my mini excavator. One thing I suggest you would do is just drive parallel to the ditch instead of having to back up and always drive forward. That excavator will do a 360 and drive along the edge quite easily.
That was going to be my suggestion. Buddy used a Bobcat 332 I believe it was, had a 1 ft and a 30 in bucket. Plus driving along the trench.
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Cole, you're doing a great job. Better than what I could do. You need to get to know the machine. Thanks for sharing (nobody ever responds)
Great videos Cole and Brian!
On the Mini Excavator try “Heavy Metal Learning” TH-cam channel.
Song of the day: Digging in the dirt, Peter Gabriel. 😂
Brian in his natural habitat was hilarious!
Cole, you are a brave person demonstrating your first use of the excavator. Thank you for showing us that you will soon be a "natural". . . . Yes, I was wondering the same thing about a calf falling into the trench.
A bigger bucket might help with digging a better trench as well
Nicely done, Cole! 👍 But i belive a smoothie faced bucket would work even better... At least in my mind. And also, a nice uppgrade for that excavator would be a quick coupler with a built-in tilt function. It makes life a little bit easier to do a nice job. Steelwrist got them for sale. Have a good one! ☃️
Thank you for your videos I love watching them.
How about adding some field tile and run it to the ditch then add an over flow catch basin near the tank. Just a thought. You are doing great keep it up
Been watching your channel for a long. Time. Case makes fine industrial equip. Never miss your videos!!
You did a fine job! Like any equipment, the more seat time you get the better you will get!
If farming doesn't work out you will make a dang fine operator..😊
Cole you did great.
You will only get better with time. The pro tip guy is right on. 👍👍
I noticed the pipe a few feet off the ground where the water runs out of the water trough.
This is probably a dumb question, but why didn't you just extend that pipe along the fence and then out into the field all the way to where you want the water to drain ?
By the way, it looked to me like you were doing a pretty good job running that excavator.
I didn't see you knock anything down and you didn't even bump into Brian. 😏
Good effort Cole! I wouldn't know how to turn it on, let alone dig that trench 🚜❤
Brain, surprised you didn't request windows washed and check oil when Cole was filming in beginning. 😂😂😂
So the excavator has a turbocharger lol...looking forward to see you build your skills and experience
Cole, there's always a first time for everyone for everything.. I would be thinking like you. As long as the trench does what it is what you want it to do, it doesn't matter how pretty or not pretty it is.
Kudos Cole for not being afraid to air your learning a new machine.
Nice job on the mini ex. I’ve been thinking since you redid that fence. I was thinking you should put drain tile in to move that water to where you want it. Maybe not to the extent of how Larson Farms tiles, but maybe something similar. Just a thought. Again, nice job!
Unless you are using a lazer you might find it easier to start at the wet spot and just keep the water coming to you, it will act as your level. Consider buying a thumb attachment, it’s amazing the different jobs you can do with it.
Agree, also the water always following you might lubricate the bucket some so the mud comes out better.
Thanks for all the great camera angles. Appreciate the content 👌
Cole, you did a great job with the excavator. You got this!
Excavators are my happy place. Nothing teaches better than saddle time Cole.
Hey Cole always had the same problem with cattle around our cheese vat and wind mill
Took a mini and dug in a 4inch tile from a overflow on the tank to about a hundred ft away
Ended the mud around the vat
For most every thing I dig now a three ft bucket gets the job done fast
Yeap, only way the end that mud from coming back is to run drainagepipe from that overflow to a ditch where catle can't go. It's more work but yuo save alot of time on the long run when yuo don't have dig that trech every year.
If your going to keep the excavator
Find a wider bucket even without teeth
Will be easier to clean out and move alot more dirt per swipe
I've even dug over tile and could feel the corragations of the tile with out damage the tile
The one thing about water is it’s ability to show you the grad it needs to flow
So if you start digging at the wet end of your ditch and the water follows you your on grade
Those little excavators are beasts and they make a thousand attachments for them
A quick disconnect and a few different buckets and you could do anything with it
They even have a brush head you could clean ditches with
I love those things I had a case CX50
With a thumb and 4 different buckets
Good purchase you will find a lot of jobs it can do
Oh if you dig so the water follows you then you won’t have to over dig your ditch
Iirc...it's on demo...not a purchase?...Cole? Brain?
For the spring, since you've an excavator now would it be worth putting drain pipe from the well overflow to where you want it to go, then cover it? That way there's no trench to level out.
What separates the men from the boys is the price of their toys. 👷🇺🇲👍
First time operating an excavator - you did good Cole!!!!
Perfect location for Tiff`s new underground swimming pool.
Get excavating Cole...
Have your tracks parallel to the trench if possible. Also, if you get stuck (or not) clean the tracks. A few times, I didn't for whatever reason and they froze over night. Chipping out small pieces of mud to get them to turn is a nightmare.
Very extraordinary, cool friends, heavy equipment, operating well, greetings of respect and friendship, I hope you like it, thank you
Cole, Start learning how to drive your trackhoe using the foot pedals. That will make it easier when you use the blade for pushing and grading. It also enables you to dig and move quicker.
Update on the drain in a month or two would be interesting.
Good stuff with the new excavator!
Seems like a culvert/French drain in that ditch you dug would be a good thing.
Cole you Did just fine!!!! Trench Looks great!!!!
Don’t say “I suck.” Say “ I am going to be better at this tomorrow.” Never put yourself down. There are always going to be others that will do that. Believe in yourself.
If you can't regulate the flow of water from the source, you can bury a large cistern adjacent to the spring and pipe the excess within the ditch you're digging to where it can do some good. (It doesn't look like your soil there is going to hold the volume in your trench and you may end up just spreading it, making a large bog, particularly if you get some heavy rain.)
Would a tile line help keep the excess water flowing away from the corner?
Your get better for/sure… Talked to the ArrowQuip rep. about the 74 head gate. Mention you. He said he’d talked to you..
Enjoy the your learning process/adventure with the excavator.
Pro tip,,, don’t curl your bucket up all the way, keep the teeth pointed at you and then when you swing curl bucket down pop the stick out at the same time. Acts like a sling shot. If it gets really plugged up curl all the way out, extend your boom and stick all the way out and give the ground a love tap or two. It will come out.
Pro tip.
Doesn't make for
good TH-cam content. 🤣
Yep
Spray your bucket with diesel oil what ever you got laying around
Thanks Cole-for the intro to the “Sonne Farms Zoo”! So glad you are still able to enjoy yourself on the farm!
Get a wider bucket . U guys in the U.S always use buckets with teeth and very small. Get a wider bucket like 4 feet . Use from the side . U can pull a side at it too. Now you are just making a trench for utillities lol. Great effort though for the first time.
I lost count of how many times my neighbor had to get himself unstuck by crawling out using the loader. It’s a farm thing! 😂
I hope nothing stumbles into that trench, might be pretty hard to get them out. I wonder if some kind of french drain setup would handle the water in that area.
Good job. Two tips…. Start at the water source and as you trench the water will act as your grade gauge…no high or low spots. Put the spoils in piles so you don’t create a berm that will trap water behind it.
you only learn from trial and error good job Cole
It's good that you got to use the excavator. As you use it more you will become more skilled, Thanks for the video Take Care and Be safe on the farm. Out
There’s an art to learning to work any new machine….especially an excavator. You’ll get it eventually!
Hard not to plug up a small bucket in saturated ground. I never ran a hoe with chains in the bucket, seen them, did not seem to help much.
Might help if you only put the bucket in the ground 2” and make a full length cut. Going down half your depth then pulling into the face of your cut is compacting the material and forcing all the air out. You can practice by having a short log or stick on the ground at half the reach then pull it in without going over the wood or digging into the ground.
The smaller diameter of wood the harder it is. Even a old 2x4 works.
Also those hand controls for walking the machine are for mechanics and truck drivers, use your feet to travel.
Dirt Perfect digs down slope to maintain drainage slope I'm pretty sure
Back in the 50s my dad made a ditch about a quarter mile long 5 feet deep and 10 feet across through our pasture field by using half sticks of dynamite 18 inches apart.
My wife and I raise cattle and hay on a small farm in s.e. Oklahoma. I am currently going through cancer treatment for head and neck cancer. I really enjoy your videos because I can’t get out and work right now. Thank you for sharing.
You did just fine Cole for your first time. You'll get the hang of it in short time.
That little excavator has an awesome growl sound to it!
To any naysayers, ask if they want to come and do it for you since they know how. You got the job done. I don't see Home and Gardens looking to do an article with pictures, so none of that really matters. You are moving water. it was a success.
Personally would have dug a swale, which is a wider, shallower ditch then creted a pond at the low point, New Zealand Environmental law would demand it to be fence off from cattle and back planted in natives.
Cole looks like you need a ditch cleaning bucket for that new excavator, which will help keep that water flow moving in the right direction.
He baled that little rig right in there fearless as anything. Pete Parker has good tips. Where the bucket pin attaches to the stick you kinda want a little air pocket in there. It will help that mud releases. Slightly popping the bucket outstretched helps, but be careful it stresses that bucket pin pretty bad. Diesel will help until you have to add more diesel. Best advice it patience, you will learn more the more you run it.
Also it may be small but they can be a bear to get unstuck.
Great video Cole and Brian
Weld segments of old log chain to hang doenoff back of bucket. Joys of living in the land of gumbo.
Great job running the mini excavator Cole
Just a couple of ideas. Go back in after the ground dries and widen the trench, making it harder for the cows to push it full of dirt. I'd also haul out or redistribute the excavated stuff to keep it away from the edges of the ditch.
Now that is some top notch mud
Cole was wondering why you wouldn’t put a drainpipe in the trench and bury it up to the low spot
Looks like you did well your first time operating your excavator. Good job Cole!
Get a thumb for the bucket...you will thank me later I promise
Cole, Why not connect more PVC to that drainage pipe from the well and run it along the fence line away from that corner into a made up pond or something else. Seems like the cows will ruin the area for you again in the near future.
the bucket you have I would consider to be a trenching bucket, big enough for a pipe and the width of the excavator stick. You need a "Hogging" bucket, something about twice the size that you have :)
While you are at it; how about considering a small pond?
You shoiuld start where the water is and work it away so you know you have enough grade to keep the water flowing. The bucket is packed because that busket is way to narrow for your soil type you need a bucket about twice as wide as the one you have.
What are you going to do to prevent cows from stepping into and getting stuck in the sheer sided ditches, in my experience if there is a ditch and water a cow is bound to go in….
Main thing is getting it to drain,,,, then you can comeback and dress it up later
Nice job Cole, that should help a lot! I'm so jealous, that mini excavator is so cool! As always thanks for the great video!
digging at an angle helps me. for instance your 2 foot deep ditch is about 1 scoop. if you dig at an angle you can fill a bucket over a 4 foot bottom. this allows you to layer the dirt in the bucket and it will help midigate it clumping in the bucket.
amazing video Cole. You and dad did good. Great job guys
That is some sticky clay. when it dries out you can make it look pretty
That's absolutely correct you always want to start at your deepest cut first
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Old timer who dug field tile by hand said start at standing water and go to outlet. That way you get your fall for water to run.
Trenching bucket, narrow, best on dry ground, wider bucket better for wet ground and yes start at dryer end
Why don't you put a culvert pipe to dren water way down cows want fill in
you did well cole in wet clay the chain in bucket wont do a thing if i may give you a tip when had to dig from the side of trench theres a control to put your boom 180 to your cab this allows you dig from the side and maintain a staight line with the trench remaining the same width just a tip im not critising well done great video