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Indeed, if you just rotate the top rear to front, that can add some weight on the hitch. But even that, I'm not sure. Isn't the counterweight supposed to compensate for a good amount of the arm's weight? If so, the rotating shouldn't modify much the balance on the tracks. In both cases, it seems...

Why not with the ex. arm toward the front? There's plenty of space over the attachments.

The Lexan sustains the impacts because it "lets it run" and gives away a bit in front of the incoming object. So, I'm not sure that putting the lexan on the outside is a good idea. A stone / limb will push the lexan inside and therefore still break the glass. As you are behind the glass, you're...

Ok for the honking before moving, but the guy who invented the bip bip should be fired.:evil:

For the cab, I'd say to avoid to be assaulted by the limbs, the rain, the heat, the cold, the dust and the mosquitos Noise too. I didn't though of the mulching head ; for this one; it isn't just a comfort consideration.

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Well done, and so quickly. But this dandling thing would drive me nuts !

Thanks Kyle.

About the wear of the excavator, what is best, moving big piles (= rotating and "arming" a lot) or carry a "hand full" all the way like a loader (= traveling a lot)?

I worked a few years along a mini bobcat and then, an excavator (around 6000 lbs), this after doing it all by hand. Mini is a great improvement from hand work but is very limited in reach, agility and capacity. Slow too. The long arm of the excavator is way more useful to sort out the tangled...