What did you do with your Chinese baby digger today?

[oldrustysteel]

What would we do without our baby diggers?

You win the award for Most Creative.!!

 

[Sonny580]

well, I have dug burn pits, set trusses, graded the drive, carried brush limbs and logs, grubbed out small trees, lifted motors out of tractors. Now getting more ideas for attachment builds for it since I know about what it can do and what I can get by with doing.

 

[Sonny580]

Spread dirt yesterday with it and going to grab brush and small trees today that I cut away from the machine shed.

 

[1hp]

new L12, install filter, change controls to hetero, & new fluid.

 

[1hp]

Reconfigured controls. used baling twine to pull them across. also installed hydraulic thumb. getting close to usable now.

 

[mike0000]

New owner of a mini digger, almost 10hrs. on it so far, sure beats a shovel. First big job getting rid of this rotting stump, took quite a bit of digging.

 

[gerawillough]

mine came with a fixed thumb, couldn't find a easy to ad on hydraulic cylinder and hose adapters from metric to sae. it took a lot of research and trial and error, but it's doable with a little fabrication and a few hoses.
the hose fitting adapters were so hard to get i bought extras, selling them on ebay!

 

[2manyrocks]

mine came with a fixed thumb, couldn't find a easy to ad on hydraulic cylinder and hose adapters from metric to sae. it took a lot of research and trial and error, but it's doable with a little fabrication and a few hoses.
the hose fitting adapters were so hard to get i bought extras, selling them on ebay!

Did you have to add a diverter valve, too?

 

[gerawillough]

Sorry for delay, no this unit had the valve & hoses capped on arm, so i had to find fittings to go from metric to SAE, added quick disconnects for quick removal!

 

[mike0000]

If you strap a lawnmower to your mini ex,…ya might be a redneck…
Needs some changes, wheels need to go and skids added, this was an old bagger only mower I had with a bad motor. I picked up a harbor freight replacement and welded a frame/mount. (I have the quick attach). It probably needs a side discharge too. If it proves to be useful I will weld up a “proper” deck.