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Nope, not yet but the reviews seem good and I read good things about it doing a google search. People didn’t have good things to say about POR

 

Heres a quick update on the mini hog for the excavator...

On these small Cat excavators you cant tram/travel & run the 3rd function at the same time.
This is done on purpose by Cat. They say its a safety concern for the operator.
I say its a super hindrance to be able to use the hog. Instead of being able to set it at a angle/height & tram along.... You have to set up, do a spot you can sweep with, move, set up, sweep, move..... Blah blah.

YES it still did everything I wanted to do with it around the ponds & steep banks. Did a fine job.
But it was a lot more effort than it would have been if you could tram/travel.

I do get it. Its a good bit of weight out there & you can tip it over in a second if your not careful, so they dont want you herky jerky moving around. At the same time though: how can you get better with it if its not efficient on your movements?

Still need to get better with it anyway, as I was NOT smooth at all. Maybe later i'll look into a work around for the cut off switch or a by pass.

Also for anyone considering getting one of these? I would very much advise you to have at least my size or larger machine.(6klb machine) Its really right on the line for my feelings as it is.

A bit heavier machine probably wouldn't have any issues at all.

As to the cutting? WOW! Its a friggin animal! No problem flow wise with spinning it or it cutting.
Very impressed there. More practice is obviously needed.

Did about 4hrs with it over the weekend & 2hrs with it this morning.

 

About an hour of work, splits are relatively uniform, lengths differ. Normally cut wood to 16-20 inch lengths for the boiler

 

I really want to see a vid!

I freely admit, I get sucked into those forestry vids.

I bet it doesn't take long to figure out the tramming bypass.

 

If I was one of those "go pro kids"..... Would have video's...

But its not safe for anyone to be anywhere around while you run this & it takes both hands & both feet to do this with any amount of efficiency or smoothness. That kinda kills videoing.

Maybe I can stick my phone in my shirt pocket on video & get some decent footage that way?

Will give it a shot next time I've got it out. (Next week for sure)

 

Some before and after pics will be just fine.

 

Sunflowers and silage corn on the Biltmore estate on this mornings walk.

 

I brought the 036 to work to sharpen the chain and clean it up. I noticed two holes on the cover for another dog. Did a search and you can buy them for one on each side. Made some weird cuts felling trees lately and the extra one would have come in handy so I used some CAD help (cardboard assisted design) and wha-lah.

This will be nice cutting wedges next time.

 

Check out Amazon for some cheap Go-Pro imitations. They come with multiple mount options so you would be likely to find something that would work. If I was YouTube famous I would invest in the Go-Pro. Just messing around every so often, the imitations are just fine for me.

 

I'm old & not tekky or fb/Insta friendly.

Its Lucky if the brain even remembers to take a pic before it's done. Or after. Lol

 

Yep me too

 

they make some great phone holders for bikes and atv's. that may be safer that a pocket.

 

I could do a pile of splits like that in an hour, but I would need the engine powered splitter! ;-)

 

do you have a wood fired boiler for heat? id like to know more about that.

 

It’s a lot of work digging out a stump with the regular bucket! Granted I started with a bigger stump.

 

Very responsible if you to use a tree bark damage limiting strap on that stump.

I kid, I kid. This is cool!

 

I’m working on a RV pad to rent out, heard there is good money in that. Hopefully the trencher works so I can run electrical from the shop. Thinking just a 30amp post.

 

Nice leverage move!

 

You can run a good sized RV on 30 amp. The only ones that really need 50 amps are the ones running 2 or 3 AC units in the hottest part of summer.

With many people swapping out their roof air units with mini- splits, the power needs will be even less.

 

Yeah, and I don’t want those huge RV’s on my property anyways. I need to figure out what I can do for sewage, have been reading it’s not good to dump into your septic tank. Might look into getting city sewage just for the RV pad/future 2 bed 2 bath additional dwelling unit.