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Video digging power cable trench (Sunday entertainment)

ITW

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Hi
Don't know if it's right to post the video here, it's no fix ore anything because finally the ground is thawed and I could get the first excavation job for 2019 done.
I'm digging an trench for the power cable to an cottage in beautiful weather in Northern Norway, so if your looking fore som Sunday entertainment have an look.
 

John Canfield

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Beautiful country - we've been to Norway a couple of times. I see you are training a junior operator - start them young. Your dog was having fun chasing the bucket, I had to put our Labrador Retriever in the house yesterday - he like to lay around where I'm working and I'm always afraid I'll run over him. I have a high definition backup camera system I'm going to install in my E42 which should help keep an eye on things back there.
 

ITW

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With the weather we had that day it was realy nice, it's good the summer is coming here in northern Norway also.
Yea the dog is like that when he gets bored when I'm working so sometimes I need to tie him to an tree ore something so I can get some work done:rolleyes:
In my Terex TC25 I have an low resolution camera from ebay sort by price, and I need t change it out.
I installed it so I could se the tail when I'm working around houses but with the low resolution it was no success.
 

John Canfield

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I finally installed a backup camera and monitor in my truck (should have done that years ago) and the resolution isn't great but good enough to hook up a trailer. After quite a search, I finally found a high definition (HD) backup cam/monitor from Amazon (link here). I've been testing it before installation and it really is quite good. It comes with two cameras, I'm going to place one on the rear hood (bonnet or engine cover) and one on the right side. Just need to find the time.
 

ITW

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That looks like an good package, and it's about $240 more than I paid for the one I got, but it's starting to fail also so it was not worth the little I paid.
Problem is with these small machines is to find an place to install the screen...
 

John Canfield

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I probably have a little larger cab than you and I'm wondering where to install the screen as well. Since I have an enclosed cab I'm thinking about a suction cup mount on the side window. Yes, it's expensive but the others are basically useless for this application.

I'm also thinking about a camera for my tractor so I can see the pallet forks when using them, one minor disadvantage I suppose for having an enclosed cab.
 

ITW

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My 2D digging system comes with an suction cup and it's an big screen so it work good, but I made an dashboard my self for the terex so I put the mount on top of that.

I run an big Case tractor, and there I installed an camera on the loader for use with the pallet forks, it worked great.
 
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