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What's your hoe doing?

aighead

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I had the same plan of going out with the machine and doing a fair amount of the running it. My buddy is trustworthy as far as this sort of thing goes and knows well how it could go bad.

Thanks for the input fellas!
 

Billrog

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Armstrong, British Columbia
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band mill , backhoe and dump truck
Actually Chris mines a 4700 as well my memory failed me. It's certainly not a rocket on any hills when loaded but runs very well and been trouble free.Getting up in years now so seldom in a hurry :eek:).
Your pics. look so much like some of my past jobs I thought for a min some body posted my pics. Bigger excavators are nice provide you have enough work to justify them.
 

aighead

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I agree, more pictures the better! I'm fascinated with what everyone is doing!

Chris, that pad is so smooth!

Billrog, that water leak doesn't look good, but neither does the weather!
 

Honcho

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Apr 16, 2016
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Russia
My hoes don't have wheels like yours... :(

But they does a handy job of grading and spreading :)

The base was pretty hard clay with some soft areas mixed it.
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The 36 came in handy for trimming the fine points you just can't get with the cx60( aka jiggles)
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The CX60 is a bit big for starting in a corner, good thing it has a rear camera ;)
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This is how far a couple loads of 1/4 went.
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Hi All, I saw a thread or two in other areas that are a showcase of the projects you have but I hadn't seen one in this section... I'm curious to know both what projects you've done, and what get's your BHL's use most.

I'll post a few pictures below and I'll have to update some as well. My biggest use is knocking over dead trees and dragging them back to a pile or two and digging holes in the pond to build the big dirt pile seen in one of the pictures or creek to fill in holes from removed stumps. It's really incredible how much labor can be saved with these machines. 50-100 foot trees are no match and work that would take days by hand is done in a couple hours. Then filling in holes or ruts, again, would be backbreaking, but is make fun by the ol' Backhoe Loader.

I think the order goes (though it's probably pretty apparent):

Pond digging for a hill I built for the Fiance in a picture to come;

Stump removal. That stump was really in there and is bigger than it looks. I had to dig about 6 feet deep and maybe 15 feet wide to get it out;

Bridge work over the creek, if you haven't tried it leave some bags of Quikrete or whatever just laying around outside for a bit and they turn into pretty decent giant bricks, these were leftover from the previous owner of the house:

Digging out some of the creek to fill in for that big stump.

What's yours doing?
 
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