Digging with New to us Mini Excavator!
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2023
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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.
Well Cole . You went at the deep end for a first timer and didn’t get stuck .😂 So I’m impressed with that 👏👏
Cole, you have good instincts. I get very “bossy” watching people do things.
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.
For a first time, I thought you did very well with the swingy and the tilty and the turny stuff. 😆
Perfect location for Tiff`s new underground swimming pool.
Get excavating Cole...
"Ditchin' and fixin'"!---Your imaginative camera placements never fail to entertain!
Ellie dog envious of your digging into the ground. Dogs are natural born diggers and love to ride in the excavator and dig with her master.
What separates the men from the boys is the price of their toys. 👷🇺🇲👍
Cole isn’t it a blast having TONKA TOYS, it’s just being a kid in the sandbox all your life. You did a AWSOME job🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great job running the mini excavator Cole
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! 😂
Brain, surprised you didn't request windows washed and check oil when Cole was filming in beginning. 😂😂😂
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.
Enjoy the your learning process/adventure with the excavator.
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.
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.
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.
Cole you Did just fine!!!! Trench Looks great!!!!
If farming doesn't work out you will make a dang fine operator..😊
That intro was priceless!! 😅
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.
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.
Very extraordinary, cool friends, heavy equipment, operating well, greetings of respect and friendship, I hope you like it, thank you
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.
Another Sonne Farms video. I like watching them every night & disappointed if there’s not a new one! Loved the “new” piece of equipment U guys are just fun to watch! God bless!
Excavators are my happy place. Nothing teaches better than saddle time Cole.
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.
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
Now that is some top notch mud
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
There’s an art to learning to work any new machine….especially an excavator. You’ll get it eventually!
Thanks for all the great camera angles. Appreciate the content 👌
Update on the drain in a month or two would be interesting.
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!
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.
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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.
A bigger bucket might help with digging a better trench as well
That's absolutely correct you always want to start at your deepest cut first
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.
Cole you did great.
You will only get better with time. The pro tip guy is right on. 👍👍
you only learn from trial and error good job Cole
Thank you for your videos I love watching them.
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 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.
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!
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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.
Hi Cole and Dad Brian hope you are doing good today.Thank you for sharing everything.God bless you all.
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.
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 UA-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.
Awsome video Cole did a great job for your first time thumbs up and shared
That little excavator has an awesome growl sound to it!
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
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?
You did just fine Cole for your first time. You'll get the hang of it in short time.
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
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 :)
Great videos Cole and Brian!
On the Mini Excavator try “Heavy Metal Learning” UA-cam channel.
Song of the day: Digging in the dirt, Peter Gabriel. 😂
Brian in his natural habitat was hilarious!
First time operating an excavator - you did good Cole!!!!
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.
Cole, you are way to much fun!!
Great first dig
You need a Teflon coated bucket, Cole. 😁
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
If I am not mistaken, that is made for the boom to folder 90 degrees toward the cab so that you can dig off to your left or right.
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)
That was quit a sight 😂 little xcavater pulling out of the mud. Im impressed.
My son and I use the mini as a crane as much as a digger. Weld some good rigging to the bucket Very handy
Excavator tip: Keep a beer in one hand. That's a good tip for about anything you do. If you're not in a public place, another tip is to keep a cigarette in your mouth. Good luck!
Weld you a loop of chain inside the bucket. It will help keep dirt and clay loose and fall out
Thanks for another sweet video was fun to watch be safe
Good stuff with the new excavator!
Seems like a culvert/French drain in that ditch you dug would be a good thing.
I haven't ran any of the excavator's or backhoe either, so I couldn't tell you which way is up with them, but it did look fun. Thanks for sharing, have a good evening!
Hey brother, you did a great job, first time Iraq. Thank you for a good video.
Cole..that was not nice...leaving the water running for us to hear while you were over digging...I had to get up twice & go to the bathroom because of that...🤣 Good job..you look like a professional. HUGS!!!
Mini x looks like fun. I would say the fact you didn’t have to use another piece of equipment to unstick yourself is a win. Now you can dig your bride that in ground pool. 😉
NO song of theDAY,no Brain either 😂😂. THANKS COLE!!!
Be cool take ya time !!! You,I'll get there fella CHEERS
You did a fine job! Like any equipment, the more seat time you get the better you will get!
Pretty good for the first time! I coated the bucket with old oil to release the load.
Time for a ditching bucket. We have one on our mini and love it!
Been watching your channel for a long. Time. Case makes fine industrial equip. Never miss your videos!!
Get yourself a wide ditching bucket for Christmas! :)
Glad you bought the excavator! Handy machine!
You did a good job for first time. I’d say once that drains awhile and the ground firms up more you can get back in and clean it up better if you want. When done leave bucket vertical and that mud will fall out as it drys or freezes
Pro tip, as a semi pro softball player, you should always play excavator, skidsteer and bull dozer work in fast-forward. The ladys will always dig it. If you know, you know!
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This baby excavator looks like a cute little Tonka toy!!
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 :)
Well, I think you did a good job Sonne. You will get better the more you use it. They way you dug that trench was right, always go to the water not from the water. I wish there was a way that you could have dried that black gold out, it looks like it would make great topsoil. I normally would just bang the bucket on something like a rock or log to clean it. And yes, the biggest problem with tracks, dont leave them with all that mud in winter, you will regret it later. All in all, good job.
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.
Learning to operate equipment in difficult conditions makes for expert operators Don't forget to grease the planetary
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
Howdy Cole, hope ya'll are doing well,
I wasn't gonna point out that you were digging to deep in spots, I'm confident you'll figure it out, I will say, I'm impressed you used your boom to get yourself out of this sticky situations, and you figured it out right away, I guess you remembered my suggestion to you, about using your boom when you first got your wheel loader stuck in the snow 😉
Stay safe, God Bless and Farm on my Friends
When I do something new -- I almost always go to youtube and look for several videos on how to do it best. You got out of the mud easy enough so I think you'll do well.
Cole that's a good place for a tile line
You should be able to get a 24" wide clean up bucket for that size machine with a smooth front edge. For softer material you don't need the teeth and the bigger capacity bucket is better in soft or sloppy conditions. Keep your eyes open to find something used and cheaper down the road. You did just fine for your first time running it.