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Add a Versatile Mini-Excavator

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How NOT to start a Construction company

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The main speaker strongly advises against purchasing a backhoe as a primary piece of equipment, calling them 'terrible' and 'garbage' for their lack of balance and inefficiency in tasks like grading. Instead, he recommends adding a mini-excavator to the equipment lineup after the pickup truck, trailer, and skid steer. Tim and Alex both agree, with Tim suggesting a mini-excavator with a hydraulic thumb for its versatility in handling various tasks like digging footings and building boulder walls. Alex further explains that the choice of mini-excavator size depends on the specific jobs; a mid-size excavator (like the Daewoo 18,000lb model) is suitable for utility work, while smaller Bobcat 331 or 325 models are better for retaining walls and small trenches. He notes that larger excavators require heavy-duty gooseneck trailers, not bumper pulls, for safe transport.

Goal: Acquire a mini-excavator with a hydraulic thumb to broaden excavation and material handling capabilities.

Tools and materials

  • Heavy-Duty Gooseneck Trailer N/A — Transporting larger mini-excavators or other heavy equipment
  • Hydraulic Thumb N/A — Grabbing and holding objects during excavation or demolition
  • Mini-Excavator Bobcat — Excavation, trenching, digging footings, and other earthmoving tasks

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equipment be after the skid loader uh depends on what jobs I was getting into if I was getting on excavation trench stuff like water and sewer hookups I'd probably get like a midsize excavator like the day but if I was doing retaining walls and just digging small trenches I'd get a minia depends on what I was kind of so the deoo is what we call a midsize skid low or midsize excavator weighs about 18,000 lbs caution warning Will Robinson warning it can be too big to tow behind a pickup truck this this excavator have we tow it behind a pickup truck yet no but we you could with the right setup with the right setup that means that heavy duty rice trailer which has extra heavy duty axles on just the wdth comes down so you'd have to have a deck over trailer for to be hauling this and if you're going to put that on there I would never put that much weight behind a bumper pull it have to be a fifth wheel yeah goose and behind a 450 or a you know see I wouldn't I wouldn't think about getting that one in the beginning I would get one of these right here probably the the 331 or the 325 that's why I said depends on what I'm doing if I'm doing a bunch of utility work those aren't cutting it but this can dig me a retaining wall trench and dig me a sewer and water line you know if that's the route that I started ending up going down you know okay okay there's some there's a method behind the madness but that is the exact way I would do it it would be a a a diesel pickup truck with the 7.3 L engine it would be any equipment trailer I wouldn't necessarily worry about a dump trailer but what Alex said about the dump trailers if you're going to get a dump trailer get the one with the front telescoping hoist you don't want a scissor hoist you want that front telescoping hoist then get a medium siiz skid l as far as tires or tracks I would probably lean toward tracks for the overall but I would get snow tracks okay snow tracks are going to allow you to plow and be efficient plowing and they're going to allow you to do dirtwork and be efficient with dirt work first attachment would be a set of forks and then my next piece of equipment would be a mini excavator all of these things could be towed behind a pickup truck so uh Tim came up with a great uh concept if you can't afford to buy he said he'd be renting yeah I'd be renting as well too yeah I wouldn't be afraid to rent I never rented nothing in the beginning because the initial price was so high I made the the mistake of…

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