Prepare and Operate the Excavator

kubota x 1140 from rocky mount tractor some of those are my buddies up there give them a big shout out uh we've taken it over here to the excavator where we've already been working just a little bit and this is a big old case cx-210d it is a monster of an excavator we're going to go on and reach in here and we're going to start this thing up let it get warmed up to optimum running temperature and i'm going to show you how it works too so the door you've got two latch systems here if i push it back it'll latch backwards right there this is nearly a brand new machine it only has about 160 hours we're gonna go right in here hang on here we go all right we're in the cab now and so is a horse fly there it goes so we're gonna reach down here we'll turn the key on give it just a second start it okay now it's running now the screen down here says auto warm-up okay you've got several controllers here you've got a controller for your left hand a controller for your right hand you have hand controls and foot controls that you can use those hand controls down there move the machine forward and backwards in other words they move the tracks okay the hand controls that are right here this one and this one that's what operates the bucket so you can bring the boom up in there's all sorts of different articulating ways that this thing works turn the radio off this thing is air conditioning super awesome there's a pretty cool little sunroof here so you can raise that up in case you're working overhead and access the sunroof so we're gonna let this guy warm up i just put fuel in it i put about i'm gonna say 60 gallons of fuel in it and move the needle about that far it's pretty fuel efficient but i didn't anticipate that it's pretty funny we're gonna get it nice and cool in this cab let this thing warm up for about 10 minutes before we get started it is a rental unit from united rentals so very nice what does it cost to rent one of these critters well it costs somewhere in a neighborhood for a month about seven to eight thousand bucks man so this is big money being spent in order to open up these fields can't get a lot of footage