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Made some progress today.

Cattle waterer mostly installed.

Dug out multiflora rose bushes and cleared Osage orange limbs around the corral and piled them in the massive brush pile in the background.

Had a hydraulic leak on the mini excavator, so one evening this week was spent removing the leaky hose and the next evening reassembling with the replacement hose. Topped off the hydraulic fluid, and changed engine oil while I was at it.

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AC 9mo ago

Curious what your thoughts are about the capabilities of that mini ex. I've always wondered how they'd handle our heavy clay soils.

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Jordan Richner 9mo ago

It's surprisingly useful. My primary use for it is digging test pits for soil evaluations. I haven't found clay it couldn't dig yet. I dug a few inches into soft bedrock from sandstone a week ago.

I could see heavy clay subsoil in very dry conditions giving it some trouble.

Mine is a 3000 pound machine. I don't think I would want to get one any lighter than that. I've seen some videos of guys adding weights to the back end to improve capability.

Obviously it won't do everything a larger machine can. I wouldn't use it to install a septic system or dig a house foundation, but it does pretty good on small jobs.