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It’s great to hear you say “Jack and I” when you talk about potential tough times ahead. Seems to be growing into a fine man.
The ability to move the arm separate from the machine let's you dig parallel to buildings and obstacles. You can work off the side of your tracks and angle your arm parallel to the building and it lets you get really close. So the width of your machine isn't a factor.
The boom swing is invaluable in a mini
Increases your lifting power by bringing everything closer to you
That thing will change your life! In a good way, Trust me I know
The work you do in the Kubota is amazing...so skilled! Keep the content coming!
@@bigeburris7220 thanks
@@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans Have A Day! Even if you are an East Coast guy 🤣
Both channels are awesome! I know things changed for us when we bought our excavator.....worth the investment for sure.
Hi Morgans, love your stuff too
An excavator on the homestead has a lot more uses when you have one. It’s like a loader on a tractor, you don’t know often you will use it until you have one.
I mow 2.5 acres with a 21 inch push mower.....it gives me great joy when my fellow man can get a tool like that. You can do so much with that machine! Enjoy Cody. You can make a living with that set up. I refuse to go into debt to buy a rider so I am saving for one. Keeps me humble in the meantime using the pusher.
Good for you. I have a similar acreage and spent the first two years with just a push mower. I finally bought a scrap quad for $250, converted it to run on batteries, and use it to tow around a homemade mower deck made out of scrap stainless steel sheet and two (one cheap and one free) 5 hp mower engines.
@@Ijusthopeitsquick sounds like a pure death trap, I love it! 👍
I did for years but I got on facebook market place got a used rider and a trailer at farm and home should have done years ago
That is the way to go. Been on my six acres for five years. First three years with a 32 inch deck. It would take 15 minutes to make one pass. That's about two days to get the place done. Saved my money and this spring was able to get mower with 60 deck and nine miles per hour. Now takes three to four hours. No loans to the bank. Feels great to not owe the man.
@@tylermallory2504 I'll admit that I wish I had an electric starter that I could operate whilst sitting safely on the quad :-)
You nailed it on investing. I max out a roth and save for my daughter, and everything past that goes toward land, booze, and guns.
In that order? 😉 😁
Switch guns and booze.
@@jeffreyyeater1780 Depends on the week..
Solid investments.
In 2021 just added a tri axle truck, a U35 Kubota mini, a Kubota skid steer, and a tilt trailer 👍🏼 I agree with the way you think. These things are made of steel, copper, and other materials that are inflating big time
It makes me feel hopeful for our nation when I see people making big leaps and continuing their success. I hope to be able to achieve similar in the near future and be able to pass on something meaningful for my family, values, property and small amount of wealth.
@@ZombieGhost2250 I don't see why or what you have against successful people. I'm confused. Reminds me of a bucket of crabs- as soon as one reaches the top edge of the bucket, he is pulled down by another crab still at the bottom!
@@ZombieGhost2250 then I take it that you are an arborist as well, because there is a principle- that it takes one to know another. I mean no offence but I like outdoors people in general, because as a soldier in my own country, I spend nearly 70% of my time in the jungle.
you can do it. just put your mind into it, and believe in your dreams. best wishes
Be diligent. Be creative. Be resourceful and scrappy. You got this.
Amen 🙏
We just bought an empty acre lot next to our house. Love having some extra space. Been working on clearing the property. Has a lot of old alcohol bottles out in the woods LOL. Future goal is to build a wood working shop to bring in that extra income and use part of it for gardening. Self sufficiency is now one of our life goals.
Not sure where Jack's interests lie, but a young guy with an opportunity to learn excavating skills, etc... could very easily end up with his own business and have plenty of work to keep himself busy......and profitable, especially at the rates it looks like excavating services are getting in your area.
CAT parts come from all over the world. It is assembled in the USA. I used to work for CAT logistics.
Owning things and equipment is the move -- wife and I both had the feeling that we needed a sawmill as a hedge. So, we got one :)
The value isn’t in the sawmill. It’s in the hard work and production you can get from it. Cody acts like buying this will be better than owning a index fund in four years. There’s no precedent for that, much more likely the CAT will be worth less than he paid for it and the stock market will be up around 30%.
2 years ago when I first got married, I was the only one working and my wife was a homemaker. We were able to save not much but a little. Now she's working a full-time job, I've had 2 pay raises, and we're still barely saving anyting. It's like just overnight everything got so much more expensive.
If read that the money supply has been increased 20% in the last 12 months. Makes it worth 20% less. Heading towards being Zimbabwe
@@sledawgpilot well that gives me plenty of hope for the future lol
Get ready, it will likely become worth even less as other countries abandon the dollar as their reserve currency and move to Asia based reserve currency. A lot of moves in politics and economics support this effort and it will probably look like an uncontrollable inflation.
@@laszlovass7326 that is the danger. Or maybe the plan all along
You scored Cody and you’re right, the money it took to contract out all you wanted makes owning your own worth it. This also lets you go beyond all that work and use it around the homestead. Missing you and Mrs W these days
You can set up Jack FOREVER with this thing. Great opportunity.
Nice buy ! I had to laugh a little at being able to stay in the cab while changing buckets . Years ago I worked on farms and a few years ago visiting friends I jumped into the cab of a modern tractor and was blown away by all the updates for similar equipment changes .
Good move Cody. You will never have to worry about making money when you have equipment like this. Of course you already know that.
Cody, just admit it... you're going to dig a moat around the homestead, 😂. Good score on the mini, God Bless you and your family
Maybe you could teach Jack how to use the mini excavator and after some time of getting used to it, then if you don't need it in the future, he could start his own small excavating or even a brush clearing business of his own if he wanted to. Obviously that depends on his want to do such a thing but that'd be a cool way to teach your son how to do more on his own. :)
Of course the truck is a beast, it has two alternators!!
For $2k you can have a super charger put on it like the GT 350 and 500 mustangs, keep your warranty and get a thousand + HP and torque and blow these coal haulers doors off!
Great video we love the more "unplanned" videos that are more of just a window into your awesome life. Thank you.
The way things are going with equipment is you could keep that for ten years and probably get the majority of what you paid
That looks like a handy machine. I will be buying a dump trailer in the near-future, I think.
Cotontop3 just got his new dump trailer delivered for his tree business
kubota makes a nice kubota khaul dump trailer and best kubota excavators wich kubotas accully planing in feature for a full size kubota excavator
We had the same experience. We bought an excavator (12K), dump truck, track loader(12K), CAT D7E dozer and accessories just ahead of covid. Can’t believe the Things we have done. The projects here have paid for the equipment.
The boom pivot+machine pivot allows you to pull a straight offset trench right close to a wall.
Last year you were talking about night vision right when I was getting into it. Now I’m about to buy a bobcat for my property. Looks like us west coast guys are constantly on the same page.
Wife and retired and bought property to homestead. We went down the same road as you. Bought an excavator after getting sticker shock to have any work done. Even got an Ironbull trailer like you. Love them both. Just finished roughing in about a half mile driveway through the woods. Pulled about 100 logs from putting in the driveway. They'll be going onto our sawmill. Also got about 13 cords of firewood. A lot of work but very satisfying.
After watching the progress over the years, I revisited your 2013 interview with Jack Spirko yesterday. Many of the things said in that interview are becoming truer day by day. Not to mention where you were to where you’re at!
I agree with the 12 inch bucket being to narrow. Some people would probably think it is too small a machine to run any wider bucket but I run an 18 inch bucket on a 22 horsepower tractor that is 25 years old.
I got my CDL today!!
From us East Coast guys, congrats brother. 👏 🇺🇸
Forget keeping up with the Jones. He’s trying to keep up with the Morgans. 😂😂😂😂
Cody let's be honest you know darn well that caterpillar will be the last thing to go if it does ever go 🤣🤣 you most likely will never get rid of it I can tell because it just gives you too much fizz! Hah... awesome machine tho I really like it hope you have the best of luck with it may it never break down
Those mini ex's can do so much. Really nice buy.
I’d love to see a comparison of this machine versus what your tractor can do. You’ve mentioned in the past the tractor wasn’t exactly a purpose built digger so now would be a good chance to see a side by side. Thanks!
A tractor is a multi tool- it does a lot of things but not very many very well. Especially digging. This machine coupled with a skid steer (purpose built loader for digging) would blow the tractor out of the water. But you’d certainly pay for it if buying all new.
Tractors are much better suited for 3pt field implements. For example, you wouldn’t put hay equipment on a skid steer- that would be a waste of time even though you probably could
I got an excavator for the same reasons as Wranglestar about four months ago (I've put 220 hours on it). They are an amazing tool. Having had tractors, skids steers and the like I have to say, the excavator (with a thumb) would likely be the last thing I let go. Move dirt, dig holes, move logs, lift 2000 lb forklift batteries, lift the canopy off the pickup, lift the sawmill head onto the rails...seems like every day I'm turning to it to do stuff that would otherwise be very challenging or time consuming to complete.
Good for you sir. I have followed and enjoyed your channel for some time. My wife and I do a small farmers market with some 7th day and have great fellowship. I agree to disagree, but have a great time in the Lord. I'm happy to see how God has blessed you and yours. Would love to fellowship with you.. Carry on! Will see you here, there, or in the air!.. edit is...a Midwesterner transplanted to an eastern guy. Lol
Thanks for sharing
I just recently bought a 3.5 ton Takeuchi, dump trailer and 3/4 ton truck because of inflation. Now I've got to figure out how to get steady work with it.
Just purchased a CTL for the same hedge against inflation.
Cool, I have been anxiously waiting for an update on the commercial property plans. Wise investment! 🇺🇸
Between a mini-x and a tractor, you can do everything; well, within reason. Easily my favorite piece of equipment in the field.
I am a pipelayer by trade. The swivel boom is intended for for trenching and leveling in confined spaces and it is really easy to dig a trench straight with the swivel boom as where it sits at the cab is where the trench will come to. You should have went ahead and put a tilt hitch on. We have had the quick bucket hitch in New Zealand since about 1982 my grandfather had one of the frist in our region.
Great purchase
That Cat actually is a Japanese Mitsubishi, so it's good quality
Neighbor has an excavator like that. He's a landscaper so he uses it a lot. I'd be happy just to afford a tractor. Thinking my career isn't providing me enough toys and maybe time for a change. Not to mention, it would be nice to have a sophisticated amount of savings to weather the storm of the current administration.
A little tip for ya. Tack weld a 3/8 plate on the teeth for trenching and saves alot of clean up. 4 or 5in by the width of your teeth. We have 2 cat 305 E's and it's nice for the oregon soil. Tooth buckets have there place. I really think you will enjoy the heck out of that machine. Watch the window alignment in the track. That's the only problem I've had in 5 years.
Great little machine. I rented one from work last year and put a bunch of tile in. They do alot of work for 25 hp.
Cody, check the new recall on super duty rear axles. The axles tubes are crushing under the spring purches.
The boom slew is really useful! Like, if you can get square to your trench line you can slew the arm to suit, or if you want to dig a pit you can use the cab slew and boom slew together to get a nice square put instead of having to track side to side or ending up with a pizza wedge pit haha
The good Lord provides for our every need🙏 praise God for his provision
Nice rig, I'd love to have one of those! Now dig a deep pond so you have onsite fire fighting potential reservoir! Also solar powered irrigation would be a great security bonus as well!
it makes full sense to do your own work if its within your skills, also with the equipment you have it gives you a heck of a lot of security in a few ways- can do the homestead work, can use it to help the community, can utilize it to provide an income. In the present situation having as much resources to fall back on gives a massive advantage and piece of mind.
Good luck. edited- also with your firefighting experience, and as you said previously could be valuable for fire breaks etc as you said about being indipendent contractor/ fire fighter
The motor in that excavator is made by yanmar, still a very good motor and that machine will treat you well. There is rumor that CAT will be making their own engines again in the near future, but they will most likely be (what the compact machinery shop supervisor at the cat dealer I work at ) call Perkapillar engines, when Perkins and CAT build a engine together. enjoy that machine! It’s a nice one.
The knuckle is so you can dig with the cab facing a certain way for an offset trench....you will never want to go back to a full size after having that
As far as resale, I work at a car dealership. All used vehicles no matter what condition have almost tripled in price.
The great feature on that cat excavator is that the hydraulic quick change makes it super easy to turn the bucket around backwards to do tunneling under things in difficult places or I use it to lift things up to roof level like shingles when I do roofing.
Awesome find. I'm a little jealous, in a good way. Good for you guys.
Congrats, I have a cat mini x on my job every day and they earn their keep. The turret pivot is nice because you can dig in your track along a wall or whatever. Congratulations
I see Cody’s got a new Garmin Fenix watch 😎👍
Good find. Even on the used market you gotta be looking and deciding fast for any equipment- good condition or otherwise.
Smart idea, local people probably will need something to dig up so maybe it will pay it self off (in addition to cost that you would have paid for the work done that you going to do in your property)
No less than 20% of your savings should in gold and silver. The more tenuous and uncertain the times, the more your savings should shift from fiat currency to real money. These are very uncertain times.
I have a mini and find that articulating pivot point at the housing is useful for digging right up along a wall. Nudge up to the wall, swing the boom over parallel to it and you can dig as close as you need to and still rotate the body to dump well out of the way. I’m also eyeing up a dump trailer to compliment the mini, but at 6 tons it is more a midi and the dump trailer options get limited.
Great looking equipment! I am sure you already have replacement filters and parts
ordered. If someone is not sure what to do for the future, following your example
is a good start on getting prepared.
For a few yrs I worked for excavating Compnany in Baco Raton filling in a lake on a golf course using a Cat 225 thats a step-up of four or five models same principal but if your Boss is looking for ammount of Dirt moved a Day [up to 10-20 Cubic Yrds ] the machine you have is for more Detail or fine tuning optics Cat Headquarters is Harrisburg Pa but theres many Distrubution Stations [Parts]
I would come down and learn to run that mini. I’m 5 hours away on a good day. I would love to have that and the skills to run one as a weekend side hustle.
Wranglerstar: "So, why did we buy a mini excavator?"
Me: "Huh, I guess there *might* be reasons other than 'It's gonna be FUN!'"
Praying for you and your family. I give thanks for your generous invitation into your life and most amazingly, your thoughts and thought proces behind your choices. Thanks 😊
That will be perfect for you and Jack to get into light excavation work like digging foundations and such ,now you need a Finish dozer ...
I miss the longer episodes, I understand it’s a ton of work planning, filming, completing and then editing, not to mention having time with your family but your longer episodes sure are something special.
I bet they return once the weather changes. They always do.
Agreed. Like so many others, I am very nervous about what to do. Self-sustaining property, like a homestead, is the answer I keep coming back to. Everything indicates we will see double digit interest, soon. So cash reserves are key. But not too much, like you said, inflation evaporates your cash reserves... great video, Cody.
I would hold onto that escivator it would be good for gardens and things also
I think if I could only have one, it would be the backhoe loader, You could pick a used one up for < $20K and its more versatile IMHO than a mini track machine.
Just a tip from past experiences and you probably know, but it helps a lot if you make up some retractable legs on the back end of the dump trailer.. takes the risk out of the chance if you happen to leave the ball unlocked/wrong ball ect or if the mechanism fails...
I don't know if its worth even mentioning, but I always appreciate your candor on topics that most people are so brazen about.
I have been watching your videos for probably 10 years now, found your stuff in college when I was losing my mind yearning to spend some time outdoors and the axe videos and tree felling had a ton of appeal for how authentic it felt.
I'll readily admit I know we wouldn't agree on many topics of politics and religion, but even though your content has slowly changed and evolved, your ability to be true to yourself in a respectable manner has remained.
There is not a single other youtuber who's content I can enjoy who I also know is experiencing the world from a totally different perspective.
Keep it up and I'll happily watch for another 10 years
they are incredably useful machines with lots of bucket/blade swapouts. lots of high volume contractors around here have at least one in the inventory for tight spaces they are that flexable .If you ever get some sparetime grab some 3/4"ply scrap, sprayglue and some tinfoil and fashion a wind up key to mount on the back engine hatch,
The swing feature is great for getting close to walls, and other things
I love It!! No buyers remorse here! Taking matters in your own hands.
Cody I'm happy for you guys, I love my dump trailer. And yes I paid about $9000 dollars trailer on the road and have had people offer me up to $13000.00 because they can't find them around here.
Well said with regards to having some material ways to provide services and work in hard times.
The future has always been uncertain, no one has a crystal ball. Life's like that. Assessing what's happening around you, making decisions and taking action. That's what we do in our lives.
Good for getting rid of problems that start to smell in SHTF.
The 303.5 is a fine machine! Such a versatile machine. Minis have become nearly a necessity in construction.
Wise words, especially on inflation, Bumkin got economy all screw balled up.
Beautiful machine Cody! I've got a lot of experience with Bobcat mini excavators roughly that size and like them a lot, but that machine is a beauty!
I just bought a hitachi mini ex for my property, you won’t regret that purchase!
Now those stumps won't stand a chance! Really nice score on the Cat.
Thats a beautiful machine. Congrats!!
I've been wanting one for some time now
Your words are wisdom. I have never bought a tool that hasn’t made me money in some way. Keep your steel oiled.
Cat products are the best. Totally worth the money. I have 3 different generations of Backhoes and it just gets better and better
Like it. My two favorite channels. Wrangler star and Outdoors with the Morgan’s.
Love that you didn’t do the typical TH-cam thing of making us wait 9 minutes for the reveal.
I love your videos Cody! Practicallity at first, and on the last part some wise words for everyone! God bless you and your family too!
Congratulations! I pray it can accomplish all you will need it for.
I also watch Outdoors With The Morgan’s, & Mike also had to get an excavator for doing work on his property.
One extremely useful machine!
Our shop just got a new Cat B-ho make in the UK??? We still love it and occasionally treat it to a metric conversion
I bought a backhoe last year for most of the reasons you stated. Cheers and God bless!
Rented one for a backyard project. Had a blast in that thing. I will own one one day.
Great machine, nice for working around foundations. Good idea for your homestead.
good trailer! i just bought a 16' Iron Bull gooseneck dump trailer and have had no regrets!
So many things to unpack in this video. As someone who's in academia now I'm always torn about real work vs. the work I do now. If things go sideways, which it looks like they will, I don't currently have a Plan B. We've got supplies and as much on that end as we can, but income is something else altogether. I need to spend some serious time working on those secondary sources of income in case I have to leave my current position in the insane asylum.
Hey Cody its coming up on a year since you moved to the new Homestead, the reason I mention is I also moved into a new home around the same time me being on the First of September. Are there things you miss about the old Homestead and the old shop? What are some of the things that you have now that you didn't before and what are your whole thoughts about the future? For me granted I am only renting-I can't believe how fast the time has flown by and I also am looking forward for the first time in a long time where I have been looking down for as long as I can remember. Thanks!
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I’m 64 years old and seeing my savings take a big hit because of the Biden administration. So I pretty much have done what you’ve done like purchasing a 14K 14’ dump trailer, a Ditch Witch SK1050 stand on mini skid steer and a Cat 302.7 and of course not all at once. So now I’m able to do everything I need to do around my property without calling anyone and looking to purchase some land in the country to develop and move onto. Most importantly is to keep God first in our lives, he is our personal savior and provider.
That’s a fine Japanese built mini ex!
For the price we chose an Orange instead of a lemon.
This combined with the yanmar, two people can make a lot work look easy!
If you are thinking of getting a dump trailer look for a goose neck it you truck has a 5th wheel hitch, have talked to many people that have had both and they say that a goose necks are 10xs better then the pull behinds. The pull behind us going to put a lot more wear and tear on the truck.