DIY Grading fresh dirt for new lawn project; Bobcat E42 Excavator
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
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In this video watch as I take out the Bobcat E42 Mini Excavator and do a rough grade of all of the new dirt that I brought to the home from the duck pond project. Please share this video and any others if you've enjoyed them, Thank you! Like and subscribe to follow all of our DIY landscaping projects as we are working to recoup much of the cash overages from our country home build. Also follow us for land management & habitat improvement projects, tractor and excavator projects (I just purchased a new Branson tractor that I'll be testing out soon!), food plots, watering holes, duck ponds and much more. Kapper Outdoors, living the dream, one acre at a time.
The never ending yard project lol looking good. Love the new tractor
thanks man, Oh believe me I know it is never ending!!!! But hopefully this week it will be put in!!! Too much rain, keeps pushing it back.... every week.......
Finally ..nice to see final grade being done in prep for seed....that's gonna look real good.
Great idea putting in a food plot right there next to the house. Should make a fab draw for some rockin chair wildlife viewing
yeah we already see deer, but with a sweet plot the local deer will be in it daily :)
Nice work Joe , can't wait to see all green .
leo We must be subscribed to all the same channels because I always see your comment.
Thanks Leo, Me too!!! Going to be sooooo, so different....
man that pond is full. as always nice work Kapper
Grade around the house is looking better. Going to look nice when your all done.
Good work Kap, looks real nice! I love your ponds, ready for some bass videos. Take care!
I"ll give it a try. Tried last night with my son we only caught a couple, think I got a few decent clips. Not sure its enough for a video just yet!
Kapper Outdoors awesome! I know ive been wanting to get out there but seems like when i dont have alot to do its raining haha.
The rough grade is looking good Joe!
Great video! Everything is really start to come together! Thanks for sharing your journey~
Regards
BCB
It's coming along nicely! Beautiful home too!
I see your plan of adding a feed plot to entice wildlife away from the lawn (Mrs. Kappers) and enjoying their presence. ;-)
Yep looked like the guard kitty’s litter box washed away. Lmao
Grass fast or that’ll all be in the pretty new lake...looks like a great bass fishing lake...seen your previous videos..
Thanks. yeah tell me about it... Some of it is already in the lake!!! The weather has been killin us with lots of rain this year...
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Slowly but surely, it's getting there., Kapper. Looks good. Whatever happened to the little fawn?
I just got video of the fawn yesterday or the day before and it's with Mom now. I don't know if she's still dropping it off during the day or not but so far it's made it!
not saying it to be critical or saying you have to video it when you first try , but, try making a start on using your bucket whilst you use your blade as you push the soil around.use your feet on your pedals to move forwards / backwards set your blade to roughly the level youre wanting to push through at ( again this will take a little time to get spot on ) and as you travel forwards you can then either grab some soil from one side or other of where you are travelling or you can push some away to one side or the other.
once you start getting used to working both controls at the same time you can then keep your bucket to just one side of the blade and if for example youre using a grading bucket which generally are 3 feet or in region off on mini excavators and you use it as well as your blade then you can nearly double up the area of ground you are levelling off in one go. ie, blades roughly 4 feet wide so with the bucket either pushing out soil or if in reverse dragging soil you can cover around a 7 ft strip in one go.
if you do attempt this i well let you know in advance that your bucket controls will automatically become more responsive as the pumps when tracking put out more pressure, so you can expect to only need to give around half the normal input into the controls to move the arm in / out / up / down / left or right.
i would suggest initially not to work to much on bring the arm in and out when you first try this way but just work on fine tuning little up and down and left and right movements, im not saying this is something you will nail in quick time it does take experience and also knowing having used plenty of bobcats that the arm controls in particular that they can be quite jerky if operating on or near max power.
rome wasnt built in a day, but, thats not to say you cant try and if you give it a go your time spent in learning will be reaped back in time saved down the line when it comes to grading jobs, time you can save doing any such jobs can only be beneficial to you with how much tractor work youre going to be facing doing rough cut mowing alone let alone further planting projects you do seasonal.
ok thanks man, I'm pretty sure I have it visualized. Might try sometime when I grade again.
Hey kapper, have you ever considered planting a few persimmon or pear trees near your food plots?
We have a lot of them naturally ocurring, but I've never planted them myself. Good idea though, I should add it to my 2nd or 3rd tier layer of improvements as continually work at it. thanks.
Kapper Outdoors I'll be planting some this next winter/spring. I'll let you know how it goes!
All that awesome work you are doing is making me HUNGRY. Where in the back yard is your mega-BBQ grill/cooker and fire pit? I would like a large porterhouse steak med rare with some potato and onions cooked out when I get to come and visit. yuummm
LOL funny, because Mrs. K is already drawing her visions and plans for here fire pit!!!!! it will be in the center of the yard!!! We will do some steak sometime then, when we get more settled!!!!!
The videos I’ve seen of your pond(s) they look murky all the time. Any plans for some solar powered aerators? I realize there is no need if you don’t plan to stock it. Looking better all the time. Is the excavator a better choice than the tractor with a box blade for leveling? Maybe time to put “Kapperzilla” to work.
yeah I think I"m going to put an aerator in. but until we get a damn lawn, the crazy rains keep bringing silt in.... This is just nuts.... rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.........................
and more rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting to look good
Shoot, not any more!!! damn torrential rains!!! again and again!!!!!!!!!! wtf...... More new dirt silt in the pond....
Kapper when you need to dig at an angle, like you were doing at the end with the sand just use the blade to lift the end of the machine up to the same angle, or if you like new toys buy a tilt grading bucket.
keep up the good work.
It’s looking real good! How many hours have you put on the e42 to date? Seems like you’ve really been getting a lot of use out of that purchase!
thanks man. I think I'm getting close to 300 hours.. Oh yeah, and the projects are just stacked up in line for it too.... :)
What are the widths of the buckets you have for the excavator? And do you add anything to your pond to deter the bugs?
24", 36" and a 52" ditch bucket (aka grave digger). No, nothing added to the pond. thanks
Time to break out the Kioti and box scraper and do some serious dirt moving.
Not this time... We decided that with everything going on, I'm going to have someone do the back lawn with a power rake, will be much better..
Dude, you've got that drag harrow that I'd love to own.