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Rant: swore mini excavators were toys til one dug my 40ft trench in 3 hours
Last Saturday I was staring at 40 feet of clay in my backyard in Boise, dreading the shovel work and already pricing out a rental trencher. My neighbor rolled up his little 1.5 ton mini excavator and I laughed, honestly figured it would tip over in the first scoop. That thing chewed through the whole run in about 3 hours and even dug around the sprinkler lines without nicking one, which I would have bet $500 against. Now I feel dumb for renting a walk-behind trencher two summers ago for the same kind of job, cost me $180 and my whole weekend. Anyone run a thumb on a machine that small, or is it not worth the extra rental fee?
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anna_hill15d ago
Tbh your neighbor got lucky, one rock or root and that little machine stops dead and you are back to hand work, plus a 1.5 ton can rip up turf and mess up grading in a way a trencher never would. Renting the walk behind for $180 was the smart call because it does one job clean and you don't have to fix ruts after. Only reason I'd say the mini wins is if you have a lot of digging ahead, not one trench.
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