What is the best way to cut this area out?

[Nac]

I have to remove all the soil to the right side of the shoring up to the house it starts out as a 10' cut all the way to 17' cut. I was thinking ramping down with the excavtor and then switching to a track loader to muck it out. Or put a rotary cutter on my mini to losseing up the cut and muck it out with a skid steer with ott . I know i will also have to cut the left side as i go to keep the shoring from pushing in.

[Squizzy246B]

Nac, I have looked at this about 3 times....as I often do with tasks we get like this. If you have 10' to 17' in height then I would go with CTL and mini-ex. I'm thinking that a 7000lb mini with ROPs removed would be good if the CTL had trouble digging; but taking ROPs off may not be permissible nor intelligent in your situation. Other than what is on the surface is there any rock in there??.

Or put a rotary cutter on my mini to losseing up the cut and muck it out with a skid steer with ott .

Even a ripper tooth on the mini or bucket reversed. Still, you put the mini down there and dig a bit, take it out, clean out with skid, put the mini back in.......
Anyway you look at it will take some time.

[95zIV]

Is there the possibilty of renting one of these, this is the smallest I could find, and it's 8'6" wide and has 23 feet of reach from the front of the tracks.

http://www.gradall.com/downloads/spec_sheets/xl3200IIIss.pdf

[greywynd]

Another possibility is to check with the rental places around you, a couple here have small conveyors that you can wheel in under there. Use the mini to load the conveyor, then where it piles use a loader, larger ex, whatever to move/load whatever as needed.

[Squizzy246B]

So Nac....how did it go??

[Turbo21835]

Seems to me, around here at least, This work is usually done with a track loader. Usually a Jd or case 450 size machine. Most of the house movers have one in their fleet. They usually have a 4 in 1 bucket on them. They also, very rarely have a rops over them.

[Nac]

Still waitng for them ro finish shoring the house. I think i will try with my 350C first and see what happens.

[stumpjumper83]

Yeah, I'd use an older small trackloader with the rops removed. Just be extra carefull not to bump those i-beams... Other than than that... maybe a clambshell bucket on a 12-15k pound hoe? Then clean up with a skidsteer / trackloader.

[bigblueox]

whack your head and that'll leave a mark. looks like you can't go laterally in either direction. let us know how it goes! love to see some at work pics! neat jobsite, what are they doing?