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QUESTION:According to the Fitch rule, the need to re-do the driveway is grounds for petitioning for the purchase of an excavator. Now
why didn't I think of that sooner!
ANSWER: I spent a couple of pleasant afternoons running my brother in law's
Case 9020B excavator last week while I was in PA on vacation. Huge
(weighs ~35,000 lbs)compared to mine (weighs 1,700 lbs) but the
controls were the same and the bigger one was much easier to operate
once I got used to how much area it covered - very smooth, lots of
pump flow to support compound movements. Really fun to watch it
scooping a yard of dirt per scoop - I dug a hole the size of my
swimming pool in less than 25 minutes with it and I'm really slow
compared to a professional operator that does it day in and day out.
However, for what you want to do I think a New Holland 515 skid steer
would be a pretty good machine - and it wouldn't crush the curbing if
you strayed onto it.
I liked the CAT 953B track loader also, moves a lot of stuff, although
it is a small one of its kind. 2.4 yard bucket if my memory is
correct. But the excavator is the most fun - its just hard to find
jobs to keep it busy for very long.
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