How I spent my Easter Weekend…

  • James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
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    April 17, 2006 at 1:36 pm #1249809

    Learning to use one of these!

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    April 17, 2006 at 1:39 pm #438770

    My girlfriend’s father is digging a lake on his property up near Duluth and bought an excavator after the rental hours started piling up last season.

    When he first offered to let me have a go of it I didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal.

    2.5 hours later he had to pry the key out of the ignition to get me to come back to the house for supper… lol

    Nothing like knocking down trees with the flick of a switch and moving a couple yards of dirt at a time.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22392
    April 17, 2006 at 1:39 pm #438771

    what, are you making your own lake now !!! thats one big unit.

    big g

    BomberA
    Posts: 649
    April 17, 2006 at 1:39 pm #438772

    Does this mean you are going to start dredging the back channel for better bass habitat around Red Wing?

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22392
    April 17, 2006 at 1:40 pm #438773

    posting at the same time, ummmm, i guess you are !!!!

    big g

    gary_wellman
    South Metro
    Posts: 6057
    April 17, 2006 at 1:43 pm #438778

    Maybe make some more wingdams too on the upper end of P4????

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    April 17, 2006 at 1:44 pm #438779

    Quote:

    Does this mean you are going to start dredging the back channel for better bass habitat around Red Wing?

    It would be a heck of a long drive. Even in “high range” I bet that unit won’t hit 5 MPH over ground. But the power is incredible. I was surprised to find out how reasonably industrial units can be purchased used. He picked up his machine for less than I would have to spend on a 2 year old 4 X 4 truck.

    luke_haugland
    Iowa City, Iowa
    Posts: 3037
    April 17, 2006 at 2:34 pm #438805

    Hey, thats what I do…

    Only, except, I don’t have much time for ponds..

    Usually around high pressure pipeline, or sprints fiber optic cable..

    We have to be “easier” with our flick of the wrists…

    herb
    6ft under
    Posts: 3242
    April 17, 2006 at 2:48 pm #438809

    Sorry James, but that mental picture of you at the controls of a machine like that just scares me.
    Anyone else??????

    hoistafish1
    Long Prairie,MN
    Posts: 402
    April 17, 2006 at 2:55 pm #438812

    Put a machine of that size in the wrong hands “look out” something bads going to happen!

    matt_grow
    Albertville MN
    Posts: 2019
    April 17, 2006 at 3:01 pm #438815

    I bet you had fun. I ran one for the first time last year on a jobsite,….I didn’t want to stop playing either..

    goose0613
    Howard Lake, MN
    Posts: 11
    April 17, 2006 at 3:09 pm #438818

    Can I borrow that thing?

    luke_haugland
    Iowa City, Iowa
    Posts: 3037
    April 17, 2006 at 3:22 pm #438829

    However, I prefer the red and white..

    greg-vandemark
    Wabasha Mn
    Posts: 1096
    April 17, 2006 at 3:44 pm #438834

    Well I suppose we have to call you
    “Digger James Deere Holst”

    So when you comin back to the River??????????

    putz
    Cottage Grove, Minn
    Posts: 1551
    April 17, 2006 at 4:00 pm #438841

    Gonna start fishing like Bill Dance, James?

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    April 17, 2006 at 4:02 pm #438842

    I’m back on the river tomorrow.

    Those excavators are surprisingly easy to run. Took about 15 minutes to get the hang of some of the compound movements that can be accomplished with the joy sticks. After that it was “how deep and where?”

    My only road bump happened when I dumped a big bucket of sloppy wet soil pulled from below the water table from a height of 15′ or so onto the spoil pile.

    You guessed it, the windows were open and I ended up wearing quite a bit of it… lol

    As long as DeZurik isn’t around nobody bleeds. If Steve was there I wouldn’t have allowed myself within 100′ of the darn thing.

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    April 17, 2006 at 4:03 pm #438843

    Quote:

    Gonna start fishing like Bill Dance, James?

    Nope, no pet fish in this pond.

    emover
    Malcom, IA
    Posts: 1939
    April 17, 2006 at 4:07 pm #438844

    Quote:

    As long as DeZurik isn’t around nobody bleeds. If Steve was there I wouldn’t have allowed myself within 100′ of the darn thing.

    dave

    sgt._rock
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 2517
    April 17, 2006 at 4:20 pm #438854

    Gee a guy starts on scratcher boats and moves up to one of these.
    What’s next space shuttle?

    hooks
    Crystal, Mn.
    Posts: 1268
    April 17, 2006 at 5:05 pm #438875

    I’m Jealous!

    You know me and toys!
    I still want a Bobcat and then i’ll go up in size from there!!!

    luke_haugland
    Iowa City, Iowa
    Posts: 3037
    April 17, 2006 at 8:59 pm #438941

    Quote:

    My only road bump happened when I dumped a big bucket of sloppy wet soil pulled from below the water table from a height of 15′ or so onto the spoil pile.

    You guessed it, the windows were open and I ended up wearing quite a bit of it… lol

    Personally, I like the air, and cd player going…
    If you have the air on, usually the windows are shut…
    However, the pipeline guru’s don’t like it when you have the windows closed and the air on…I just can’t figure out why..

    Here is what gets me going, digging over and around sprints fiber optic cable…it is smaller than your pinky, and you are using a big machine, that can rip trees out in seconds…
    The best part, if you touch, and I mean touch that cable, you will cut it…and that costs a million dollars a minute…

    bassandbucks
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 179
    April 18, 2006 at 7:40 pm #439242

    I spent most of the day on Sunday getting my girlfriends fishing line out of tree’s and off of shore, and off of the trolling motor, and the big motor and so on and so on…………

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