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Supply chain issue right now. Thumb is on backorder for about 2 weeks. So we'll practice just digging and moving dirt for a bit as we get used to it. Now that I've got a bigger machine I've got to get a different quick connect for the mulcher head and they're working on that now.

Here's what it looks like when they deliver one of these.

I bought it today...got the keys in my pocket. It is supposed to be delivered to Alex's house tomorrow. There are some issues with supply chains (imagine that, right?) so the hydraulic thumb won't be on it. It will have the 24" bucket. It will take about 2 weeks for it to show up. And the...

Impressive what a mini can actually handle...thanks.

Ruel...this is the video that got me to thinking about us doing our own logging of the pines on our dams. This is a 9,000 lb machine in the video...ours will be 15,000. Oughta be interesting.

Do you mean a trailer that you pull behind the ex as you load it? Or just reposition the trailer at the site periodically near the debris?

We have the spare on the trailer already...and a big ass socket (1 1/8" I think) that will stay on the trailer, too. Big trailers have big nuts. Yep...real close fit. We'll learn as we go I reckon. We may eventually evolve to a gooseneck, deck-over.

The plan is evolving...we have decided to buy a mini-ex. The original plan to rent for awhile and then decide what to buy got changed. We were getting quotes on a Takeuchi TB260 and then found out how scarce they are...none in stock to be bought around here. The new TB370's are out, one step...

And I just sent Alex the link so he can read this thread and be aware of the input. He said he's already figured out that CDL is going to be necessary and is making plans in that direction already. Good news is that means he'll be hauling whatever we've got around instead of me. Oops... Did I...

Yowsa...gets interesting. Good input. Thanks for taking the time to help parse it out.

Damn, Carl...no idea you might be a RH dealer!!! Thanks, Kyle on the CDL analysis....I'll ponder it some more.

The new trailer is 5800 lbs, my truck is about 10K so that is ~~ 16,000 lbs combined weight, pulling it empty. I figure that allows me about 10K payload before I hit the CDL limit with my GMC 2500 crew cab, long bed truck. But I think the recommended max wt for me to pull is a 13,000 lb...

Does that mean you can select the type controls in the software of the excavators to use? Like QWERTY vs DVORAK? Apparently flow directions, flow "stuff" and probably lots of other stuff is SW driven.

You are right, Kyle...we have been ciphering our way thru the CDL limits with all the 3-4 letter acronyms...GVW GVWR GCW etc. Alex has been thinking of replacing his 2001 GMC Sierra 2500. This path we are slowly paving will help drive his choices.

I have only used a mini-x once for a few days...but what I could do with it...and me not knowing squat about them...was amazing. I used this TB235 to dig out the root structure and fell these largish oak trees...we built our new shop where the trees were.

I have seen these trailers up close....hard to find down here. Plenty of Gatormade, etc. that have a good reputation. But when we looked at the "popular" ones here that we could get the quality was nowhere near these. I have talked to the folks that make these trailers...at a factory where 16...

In some ways we may be buying the cart before the horse. I have a retired firefighter (one of Alex's guys) headed to WI next week to pickup this trailer...for eventually hauling the mini-x. We need to consolidate his trailers...he has 3 different eqpt trailers..this one will take the place of...

When my folks took over the farm in the early 90's we could use a DR trimmer to maintain the dams...but that was a LOT of work, too...hand-propelled, slopes, etc. My cousin and I looked into getting a side scythe (what I call it) that would attach to his full size tractor and let us mow the...

I suspect we will eventually end up buying an excavator...renting for now will let us not have to worry about maintenance. I'll rent it this summer for a month and we will put it thru the paces. Alex and I will probably be doing some experimental logging with the mini-excavator. There are...

Update....instead of buying an excavator I have bought a mulcher head...a Rockhound Defender FX 26. I will rent a Takeuchi TB260 to run it...the attachment folks I am getting the mulcher head from in ME rent that combination out. They said the 240 is OK but the 260 is best. The mulcher head...