Dingo Mini Digger

[davo453]

Just thought i'd post a picture of what I ended up with. If you see me on the road give me a wave. Spent more on the truck than I intended (typical really)

Also should you need a job doing North of the river (Perth) let me know

Cheers

Dave

[Alastair]

Just a word of caution. Particularly with the trencher mounted, they are bloody top heavy. My brother-in-law recently hired one for the weekend. I spent most of Saturday with timber packs and screw jacks getting the sucker back onto its wheels after he capsised it. I gave him heaps about amateur operators, and then while showing him "how to do it properly" I bloody near did the same. The ground had a slight slope, but nothing more than10 deg or so.

[vsquizz]

Davo, excellent. Ive just had the truck drop off about 14 tonnes of limestone at my place (after I shifted that amount of sand by hand/barra).

Just a thought; The bricks I'm using are 350 x 300 x 1000 (reconstituted) so over 100 kgs each (8 bricks to a pallet). The contractor is coming in next week to put up the retaining wall (so I can finally get that new shed). I asked him if he had a team of gorrillas working for him, he said most gorrillas have a higher IQ than his boys but they use a special clamp on the Bobbie. Given the miles of limestone going up around the place is this an option for the Dingo and does it have the counter/ballast weight to handle it??

Good Luck and remember;

All good work is an uphill battle

Cheers

[davo453]

Alastair yes they are top heavy with the trencher on, the rule with all earth movers (bobcats and front end loaders etc) is to keep the load as low as possible, and you go up or down the hill with the heavy end uphill (but low). They should really explain that when you hire em it's not the sort of thing you want falling on you.

Squizzy the Dingo has a safe working load of 250kg on the arms which obviously lessens the further it is away from the machine (it will lift alot more though in my experiance). I have a lifting arm and they do a block lifting thingo which is basically the same as the bobcat one.

Good luck with all that limestone, look forward to photo's when it's done, pity you live south of the river

Cheers Dave.

[vsquizz]

Davo, Here ya go mate. Before and well...what we did today.

Oh and Al these big rectangular things are called Bricks...and these ones weigh 220 kg each . Just as well you retired mate, The Kubota has made you redundant

Cheers

[ozwinner]

Pfhhht

Used to lift em handed mate, Kubota, is that the name of the BBQ?

Al

[vsquizz]

Jes*s your fast Al .

[ozwinner]

The wonders of modern science.

Now when I was a lad.....................................

Al

[vsquizz]

Here's a few more.

Al we had the barbie last week when we toasted marshmellows over me old shed...RIP

But when all this is finished whhooHoo

Cheers

[ozwinner]

I think there'll be a few toasted.............mmmmm.............ppl this Saturday, as we are haveing a get together at our new venture, hic, oowhh me poor head.

Pity you bunch of missfits live so far away.

Al

[vsquizz]

I'll have one for ya anyway Al . Hope it goes well.

I was just wondering, did you ever work out when you were a young bloke and somebody told you bricks and mortar was a good thing..well... that they didn't mean layin em?

Cheers

[ozwinner]

Actualy, bricks and mortar has been real good for us.
Now hopefuly, junk will be too.

Al

[davo453]

Looks a good job Squizzy, how wide was the foundation trench?

[vsquizz]

Looks a good job Squizzy, how wide was the foundation trench?

2 x 300 mm brickie killers wide, plus some, so about a 800mm, 1 cut with excavator. You only need that wide when you have to put in the backing bricks (for over 1 metre). I'll whack on a few pickies of the front we did today. {read run out, lay some bricks, down with rain etc etc} What a Prune of a day.

I get to spend tomorrow core drilling holes in the top to put the colourbond back up. Hopefully that will be easier than breaking the rapid-set off the old posts with the sledgie was.

Cheers

NB note Prune of a day

[vsquizz]

Here todays efforts Davo

The lengths a bloke will go to just for a new shed


Cheers