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Operate Bobcat and Harvest Sand

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Digging in Soft Sand

What happens here

Enter the Bobcat T180, fasten the seatbelt, and start the engine. Familiarize yourself with the controls; this model uses hydraulic hand-foot controls. Begin the excavation process by driving the Bobcat into the designated sand harvesting area. Use the bucket to scrape and move layers of sand. The technique demonstrated involves creating a wide, shallow trench, and then gradually deepening it by moving the machine back and forth, extending the trench, and allowing for a gentle ramp-like slope at the entry/exit points. Ensure to skim off and discard any topsoil or black dirt to access the cleaner, desired sand.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat T180 Skid-Steer Loader Bobcat
  • Sand N/A
  • Topsoil/Black Dirt N/A

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looking at that track and it's loose and i knew that beforehand but i forgot testing testing testing [Music] so this is a bobcat t180 you know an older machine by far well you'll see what i mean if you look at that roof that's pure rust i'll show you a close-up of that in a minute but this has got hand foot controls and it's hydraulic it's not electronic so it doesn't go through an elec my throttle is jacked so this has hydraulic control so everything is directly controlled right as soon as you hit a pedal you're activating the hydraulic cylinder where in the newer machines you move a joystick and then it has an electronic switch which then activates the uh and there we go camera falls off one of the things that we should i found out or learned was this old trick on how to harvest dirt from an army engineer and if you want to dig a really deep hole this is how he showed my dad and i how the army taught him how to do it and i was like 11. when i first seen this and i it was no big deal back then but it never really left me the problem is this is so rusty then my magnet won't stick [Music] and so this is kind of this is exactly what he showed us how to dig and i'm going to share that with you today and this is almost perfect for what i've got going on with that loose track on the one side and i don't have a grease gun with because like i said i remembered it was loose but i forgot the grease gun right um i can't really turn a lot i can drive forward and back all day and night without worrying about that track but as soon as i do a tight turn my machine is going to go one way and my track is going to keep going straight and i'm literally i call it cowboying out of the track so what you'll see me doing in this entire video anytime i'm turning it's going to be a very three-pointish turn or an extremely wide turn just because i'm worried about that one track popping out but i want to harvest about 20 sec i'm going to get three loaves and i look at these loads and i'm thinking i dug too deep right now golly [Music] which is perfect because the sand is so loose i'll show you how i get out of that the sand is really loose it's beautiful material god this is beautiful material now i'm peeling the black dirt off from the top i don't want that mixed in with the sand i'm literally going to be using this to rebuild a beach that was washed out when our cabin flooded twice and i just never fixed it but that is coming up in a future video where we actually start to rebuild…

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