#Mini excavator bucket hole repair install

It's not exactly up to the quality standards of a $30k Bobcat E10 but it's damn good for less than 1/3 the price. I, on the other hand, look like I'm sitting on a Tonka toy. Worst case I could buy it, use it for what I needed to do, and sell it and still be money ahead of renting one at $500/day. 13 hp Briggs engine, very well built, clean welds, plenty of digging depth. I have some work around the house that would make it handy as well. I went and took a look at them and they looked surprisingly good. To rent an excavator this size is $500 a day so the payoff would only be 17.5 days of rental. The gent had imported 10 of them and was selling them for $8900.00. After several weeks of beating around marketplace, I came across a post for a brand-new Chinese mini excavator. An excavator would be preferred if buying because they are more versatile. I looked into renting an excavator or trencher but most of them are $200-$500 per day to rent so I started looking at used ones on CL and FBM.

#Mini excavator bucket hole repair install

The first of the year, I decided I had the need to do a bunch of digging to install power and water for camping pads at a property my family bought in the mountains. I was originally going to put this in the HF thread but decided it deserved its own page. This isn't a HF tool but it is a cheap (relatively) Chinese tool. I've mentioned it in the past a couple of times but never really given much info because I hadn't used it enough to know if it was worth the price of admission.