Works great.

 

Nice job.

 

bob; great re-purposing of used material. not too shabby in the welding dept either.

 

Awesome job - I dig it

 

Nice work, Bob. [emoji106]


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that looks great now you can make one of the kind that the bucket is the opposite direction like a backhoe bucket and back drag and pull out the dirt making a trench ;-)

 

I'm thinking this is what I would do if I made one... that way you wouldn't have to drive over any areas that are already dug!!! around here some of the soil types just wouldn't do well driving over an already dug trench... even a shallow one.

@Bob: Nice work on using what you had laying around Looks like it does what you need it to do which is the most important thing!!!

 

Pretty slick lookin!!

 

Pretty neat thing there.

Around here, you might be able to use it on a construction site that's mostly backfill...….but on virgin ground, no way.....we have tight ground.

 

It'll work on virgin native soils just fine I seen guys using forklifts( with the forks) to dig trenches when it was the only tool they had other than a hand shovel and the ground was hard pan/ glacial til almost like cement treated!!!

 

It has actually worked well here where there is little to no dirt but all caliche and small limestone. All the power of the machine going down to 12" wide. There are videos on line of people digging trenches with them but it's always in diet. It's amazing how fast you can dig a trench with one. I'm moving soon and needed it for trenches to the new shop and house as well as planting new fruit trees.

 

its amazing how much dirt can be moved with a big skid steer and a toothed bucket, I have seen of that style bucket being used for digging out stumps, 12" or smaller it just pops them out. I borrow one of these when I have to dig ditches though

 

They work well but I try to borrow one of these

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I'm intrigued at the different soils in this world. In some parts of the world a bulldozer is useless without a ripper. Where I live the average soil particle is 36" diameter. I have land 3 miles away where it's 3' to bedrock with sand above. A machine works well in Texas, would be useless in VT. If it works where you are I'm pleased. I have seen forks used this way with some success if no rocks.

 

When they dug the hole for my septic tank, the bottom of the hole looked just like the top of the ground, small limestone rocks tapering to all edges. They are worthless for any thing. Two miles down the road, guy digs for his septic tank and pure dirt 9' deep. You can't figure it out no matter what.

 

Yeah, any rocks bigger than 4-6 inches makes things interesting... A buddy of mine has a dozen or so forklifts and he can do just about anything except cook dinner with them I gotta tell you though it gets tense when you see a fork bend about 90 degrees and spring back to normal when the rock let's go !!!

 

Yeah, but you can't haul that on a 16', double axle trailer either.