For domestic use, there is no license required to use an excavator on your own property so hiring one is completely possible and common place. Watch as I show you some of the work I’ve carried out and how I use a mini digger and dumper around my garden.
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Once you have removed the junk I would recommend a few pigs. They would remove your roots and turn over the ground for you. Could be bacon sandwiches afterwards, win win me thinks.
Been 360 driver for 15yrs now and I enjoyed watching how fast you learned the basics and some great tips for people who’ve never driven a digger ????
I hired a mini digger to dig out the footings for a concrete hard stand for my caravan my neighbour saw the digger then proceeded to tell me all about it, the model, its history, what it's capabilities were blah blah blah then he asked why I had hired it and did I have any experience using one, I told him why I'd hired it and had absolutely no experience whatsoever and blow me down he said watch this, he jumped onto the machine started it up znc within an hour and half he had dug out the hole for my concrete hard stand. I was so chuffed he had done that I reckon it would have taken me forever to do what he did and I never even got to drive the thing I was a little disappointed at that but not for long lol. Experience always prevails ????????
For a moment I thought you were digging a canal to float the engine away! All the best
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Great job. Good to know the prices too.
Very interesting video, Stuart. I have no need to ever rent one of these things but I still found it great to watch your stuff as usual! Great camera work as well, I can tell that must have taken a lot of effort to set up the angles and edit.
When you were talking about how difficult it would be to dispose of the engine, I was thinking "bury it!" I can't imagine how long all those brambles would take to clear by hand
In the US, you’d probably get fined for this. Something that wouldn’t be good to show being done here. Even if it is safe, the EPA has strict rules on everything that people do here.
I'd love to know who you hired from, local places I've tried were a lot more expensive for a week.
Don’t think burying the engine was the best idea personally, you’re just polluting the land. Especially if you want to grow fruit and vegetables on it. I would have separated the gearbox from the engine and got a recycling centre to drop off a metal skip. There’s a lot of money in old metal which you seem to have a good ton of it!
A few tips for the beginners using lower revs in the machine will avoid some of the jerking and abrupt movements of both machines and give you a bit more control if you aren’t working the machine to its limit until you become used to it. A bit disappointing to see you bury the engine and certainly not proper diy, where there is a will there is a way and I thought the big tank would have been more of a pain to dispose of. As others have said there was money in all that scrap and it’s the green thing to do to recycle it! Hope you never want to did a trench or hole where that engine is or you will be cursing the day ????. Well done on the rest of it though, cracking job!
You have very good soil – I wish I could dig as well in Sussex clay !!!
All good to know. Thank you. That was both entertaining and educational.
With the skip there is door you could drive upinto the skip instead of just tipping, as for the engine Shane you chose to just bury it never mind
God bless the engine and all that was driven by her!
You are an idiot.
Stop burying things. Hire the proper people, so that motor can be properly recycled.
This makes me wants to plant some brambles in my field, that I don't own
Ah need to get me one of these. I believe that was a quote from a movie back in the day.????
When will the engine be ready for Harvest? Asking for a friend ????
I hired a 3T machine for the first time last year. It was a bit like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time… Really difficult but great fun. Proper boys toys!
An interesting and strangely entertaining video Stuart. I liked your novel way of dealing with the engine disposal – an option used by the military after several conflicts I believe.???????? Cheers.
Rip engine ????????
How apt, I have one coming tomorrow for the day. 25mtrs of sandstone to lay over the next week
Major whiplash at 4.44 ????
As for the engine, I was thinking on just dis-assembling it into it's basic components and then dispose of it. I'm sure an engine block minus the transmission is a lot lighter. And why stop there? Just keep going until you have now gained new mechanical knowledge to work on your car! The wife might appreciate that and you could then rationalize the cost of the rental of the excavator. Great idea, though.
Plant a tree on it so you no where it is only joking ????
The neighbours after seeing the "grave": "Holy cow the man's gone mad and offed someone!"