How do you carry your buckets with your mini digger ??

danpwll

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Mixed Farmer

Location

flintshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #1

How do people carry there bucket around with the machine, as sometimes take 3 buckets and track a distance and want to take them all, wasn't there a thread with a simple carriage you hooked up on blade ?? Any tips greatly appreciated !!!

 

Northeastfarmer

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Location

Cleveland

• Feb 12, 2020

• #2

Chain and shackle

 

Sharpy

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Ardrossan Ayrshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #3

There was a guy featured in Practical Farm Ideas who had made a tray/platform that hooked onto the dozer blade, carried his buckets, spade and drainage pipe. Looked handy, planning similar here.

 

Tubbylew

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Location

Herefordshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #4

 

cotswoldcs

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Location

Bang In the heart of the Cotswolds

• Feb 12, 2020

• #5

Very impressive @Tubbylew ! Really enjoyed the video. Amazing how useful that shear grab thing is. The fact that the bucket etc can move 360 degrees is so useful. I want one now!

 

sticky

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Location

Near Stratford upon Avon

• Feb 12, 2020

• #6

I saved this photo once from somewhere.

 

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Tubbylew

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Location

Herefordshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #7

cotswoldcs said:

Very impressive @Tubbylew ! Really enjoyed the video. Amazing how useful that shear grab thing is. The fact that the bucket etc can move 360 degrees is so useful. I want one now!

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It is very impressive, just a shame its not me.

 

Steevo

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #8

Tubbylew said:

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That is one seriously skilled driver!!!!

(they don't half work fast too!! )


Only just watched the first minute or so - will need to set aside more time later to watch the rest.

 

Thomas5060

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Larne, Northern Ireland

• Feb 12, 2020

• #9

Just stuff them inside each other, have 3ft,30inch,2ft,1ft, ripper on and the sheugh bucket is hanging on the far tooth of the 3ft

 

Bullring

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Location

Cornwall

• Feb 12, 2020

• #10

sticky said:

I saved this photo once from somewhere.

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I saved the same photo from somewhere but I still haven’t made one up yet.

 

Tubbylew

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Location

Herefordshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #11

Steevo said:

That is one seriously skilled driver!!!!

(they don't half work fast too!! )


Only just watched the first minute or so - will need to set aside more time later to watch the rest.

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Every time i jump on a digger i think i'm gonna be like that, 30 mins of crashing a banging later i slope off to the house for a cup of tea to cool my temper!

 

nick...

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Arable Farmer

Location

south norfolk

• Feb 12, 2020

• #12

Most of my buckets have hooks on top so pick em up with a grader.tiltrotators are great but over half the price of digger on that size of machine.ive had a play but need to think in 3 dimension rather than 2.made a right tit of myself on a demo machine with lots of people watching and those in the know reckon you need 300 hours to get the hang of them.having said that I’d have one but customers won’t pay any extra and yes I’ve asked them
Nick...

 

ollie989898

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Location

Hanging from a twig, in a deep sleep.

• Feb 12, 2020

• #13

I watched that, I just want a digger now, not sure why, but I want one!

 

Tubbylew

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Location

Herefordshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #14

Christ its hypnotising, fair play. I really gotta get back to work

 

ollie989898

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Location

Hanging from a twig, in a deep sleep.

• Feb 12, 2020

• #15

Look, if someone wants to pay me to drive one of those things or something similar for the intermediate future I'm all ears.

 

Steevo

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #16

Just watched it all through. That is absolutely insane - impressive ork!!

That said....I'm still none the wiser on what he was actually supposed to be doing there!

 

Steevo

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #17

ollie989898 said:

Look, if someone wants to pay me to drive one of those things or something similar for the intermediate future I'm all ears.

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I'd almost buy someone a digger if they were skilled enough to be able to use it like that just to be able to watch them do it!

 

Steevo

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #18

nick... said:

Most of my buckets have hooks on top so pick em up with a grader.tiltrotators are great but over half the price of digger on that size of machine.ive had a play but need to think in 3 dimension rather than 2.made a right tit of myself on a demo machine with lots of people watching and those in the know reckon you need 300 hours to get the hang of them.having said that I’d have one but customers won’t pay any extra and yes I’ve asked them
Nick...

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Guess they'd hold their value pretty well though being rare. That said, how many people would buy one second hand on that basis - not much saving on new, but still a fair sum that's hard to justify on a used machine.

 

Steevo

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #19

Tubbylew said:

Christ its hypnotising, fair play. I really gotta get back to work

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That is seriously impressive too! Very skilled indeed. Loved the winding up of the old fence.

That said, it did seem he was making work for himself. Guys I know that do big fencing contracts for the railways would be in there with their digger, rip it all out in one go - bushes, fence and all, chip up any loose vegetation on site and stick all the whole fence in one go in big 40cu.yard hooklift bins to disposal. Probably costs more in waste, but saves a fortune in labour that more than makes up for it.

 

YELROM

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Location

North Yorkshire

• Feb 12, 2020

• #20

This is quite impressive