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Back to the foundation job. Cut off the lengths of rebar I need and then managed to tame the garden ornament back into an orderly roll with the help of quite a lot of (re-usable) zip-ties.

The excavator got a quick check and grease-up. Did find some chafe where the two lowest hydraulic hoses for the arm are rubbing on a pin. There is some protection on them but it was chafing through that. Added another layer on top, insulation from an old thick power cable.

#Homestead #Foundation #Renovation #MiniExcavator #Rebar #DIY #Maintenance

Cleaned up my mess from hurriedly closing the pit. As you can see from the nice mud lake, the rain did come yesterday.

Quite proud of my work with the grading bucket here. I scraped the dirt off without harming the grass underneath. You don't know how difficult that is until you try :)

Put it into two heaps on either end so I can drive sand and cement down the middle, then built supports and hauled in the pouring platform (not depicted here).

Basically ready to pour, but of course the forecast says rain for several days ahead 😤

#Renovation #Foundation #DIY #MiniExcavator #Grading #Excavator #Dirt

Stumps hauled off and raked the dirt flat a bit.

Or as they say in Lithuanian: Man rake ya![sorry 😬]

#Homestead #Stump #Removal #Yard #MiniExcavator #Tractor #Rake

Waiting for my concrete to cure on the south side. Meanwhile I can prepare the next.

Gotta get rid of these two stumps and the roots stretching towards the house and under the extension there.

You might think this is easy with an excavator and maybe with a 30 ton one it is. But with our 1 ton machine it takes time. It can only break smaller roots, big ones had to be sawn. Then dig all around and finally underneath to cut the roots going straight down.

Even when the stump wiggles around a lot it is still held firmly by those. Finally the first came out, I filled the hole and tackled the second.

My poor chainsaw needs a deep clean and sharpen now. Won't bother smoothing the terrain here as I will just dump the foundation dig on it soon.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #Stump #Digging #Homestead

Frontalinis krautuvas.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Backwards #Shoveling

Rest of the machine got dirty grease wiped off, washed and then greased again. Found two problems, both on the dozer blade pins.

Bottom had a crushed collar around the grease nipple, that was probably me trying to juggle concrete beams without a thumb. Hammered it back in shape.

The top grease nipple wouldn't accept any grease. A battle ensued, the victims of which included a pile of rags, my t-shirt, the hose of the grease gun and half a cartridge of grease when I had to load and repair the other grease gun.

Turned out the pin is just very tight fitting and with the good pump I got some grease in there. Should get easier with wear!

One track needed a little more tension. Luckily no grease needed for that.

Ready!

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Maintenance #Homestead #DIY #Grease

Excavator maintenance. Its been a year already.

Found the throttle frame on the engine was bent. I recall sometime in winter the throttle briefly sticking, which I put down to it being frozen. Working it loose probably bent the frame. Bent it back.

Other than that, the little 1-cylinder Koop diesel is doing ok. Very light on service items, the fuel filter is see-through, the oil filter is really just a re-usable strainer and the air filter can be blown out and will last a long time if you don't work in a dusty quarry.

There is some dust from the rubber pads on the flexible engine/pump coupling, I guess that will need to be replaced when they're worn through. The rubber is available separately.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #Excavator #Maintenance #Homestead #Oil #Koop

Maximum #CottageCore bullshit today.

I wanted to move this hay out of the way so I can store something in this section of the barn. Turns out its very compressed. Hay.bz2 or even Hay.xz.

You can't even stick a pitchfork in, that's how dense it is. Its been there a really long time and had been walked on and stuff stored on top, perhaps that's why.

I've used the mini-excavator with my adjustable thumb on maximum setting to grab big chunks and drag them apart, which worked, but it can only reach in halfway.

The rest I'll have to do by hand. And its in a big decompressed pile now and needs to be pitchforked to the rearmost corner of the barn so we can use it for mulch and chicken floor later. 😓

#Hay #Barn #Homestead #MiniExcavator

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Huh, this is clever. It uses the existing bucket curl cylinder, super easy build, no messing with hydraulics at all.

💡 I wonder if I can design one for the quick-fitting I've got and how much force that would get me.

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#MiniExcavator #LogSplitter #Machinery #DIY #Firewood

Thumbing around behind the barn, picking up "treasures". The thumb I made has already proven itself immensely useful and got a coat of black paint on top of the primer.

Bunch of big rocks there, some concrete, some weird garden railway track and a lens of bitumen, I think.

Not sure what to do with the latter. Make a road? 🤷

#Homestead #Cleanup #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb #DIY

Been thumbing around some concrete beams and then played some jenga.

The firewood store got expanded a little and some of the beams had sunk into the soft soil under the weight of the firewood stacked on them and needed rebedding.

The new thumb was extremely useful doing this and I managed to do it without either knocking over the stacked firewood or the roof.

Then stacked the split pile onto there so it can finish drying.

#Jenga #MiniExcavator #Firewood #Homestead #ConcreteBeam

China excavator upgrade: Hinges and latches for the rear door.

Because in order to get to the engine you had to unbolt four big bolts, two of them from underneath, then lift off the door. Then lift it back on and fiddle in the bolts. Made it super annoying to check the oil level or hook up a battery booster in winter.

I ordered these parts just after getting the machine last year and finally got around to installing them.

Fits nicely, the door swings open wide and can be lifted off the hinges if need be.

Now the oil can be checked as often as it should. And it saves precious time.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #ChinaExcavator #DIY #Hinge #Tap #Homestead

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#ExcavatorThumb progress:

Clamped and aligned the thumb sides with the help of two bricks that happened to be the right width, then tack welded the tubes on.

Next part was the adjustable support leg. Figuring out the length of both parts was easy, swing the thumb up and down, measure distance between pins and copy it to the two parts on the workbench.

Making the inner part slide smoothly into the outer took ages as I had to grind down the thickness of the entire outer surface, then polish it smooth.

Solved the problem of the outer tube having a seam weld inside by hammering on the inner one until it bowed inwards just enough to allow space for that seam.

Fits very nicely now and almost no play.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb
#SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking #Welding

Thumb update:

Made the thumb wider so it fits better between the bucket teeth, which required cutting new reinforcements. Cut the ones for the support leg as well and decided where to attach it to the thumb.

Then worked on the adjustable support leg. A cylinder each welded to the end of a box section. The lower fitting was easy, just an approximate half-circle with three shallow cuts of the angle grinder and then bend it back and forth until it breaks out.

The upper fitting having the added challenge of being narrower than the box section, so it got tapered a bit by cutting some wedges out and banging on it with a hammer.

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#SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking #Welding

Always keep your hole saw plugs, in case you need to Ctrl-Z a hole you just cut so you can make it bigger 😆

Sure wish there had been room for the drill press in the car last time we went to the old place!

Four biggish holes were cut through 10mm plate, eventually. Of the right size this time.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb
#SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking #DrillBabyDrill

Slides, more or less.

The outer one has an annoying seam inside, so we'll see what to do about that when I've figured out the lengths.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb
#SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking

Today's progress on the thumb:

A tube section and restored pin for the support. Since the pin is kinda long, I could make some more tube sections on the outside as well.

And two beefy pieces of thick plate with a hole in them for the thumb, plus two more tube sections for reinforcement. One with a groove to keep the quick-release pin from rotating and sticking out.

That's it. Recycling is slow work. Spent a lot of time running around looking for two pieces to fit inside of each other for the support.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb
#SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking

Next project: A thumb for the mini-excavator.

Because I've been kinda needing it for a while and now I do even more.

In case you don't know what it is, it's the same as yours - an opposable thumb for gripping things. Try lifting a pencil without using your thumb. Or a concrete beam or a log.

The cardboard mockup I made last year, but I wasn't really happy with it and with some more excavator experience under my belt I did think of several improvements, like making it adjustable.

Sifted through my scrap metal and found some suitable steel.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb #SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking

Relocating the kitchen garden after getting rid of the concrete around it.

You can nicely see the difference between the good soil and the clay rich stuff below in the spot where I scraped too deeply.

The big grading bucket moves dirt fast but unfortunately it just started raining, to my great annoyance. Sprinted out to rescue some stuff and now having coffee while hoping it doesn't get too muddy to continue. 😫

Like most excavator work, it requires a bit of strategy. Here I'm piling the good soil in the middle, then I'll have to move the bad soil over it to fill the gap left behind and then distribute the good soil in the new hole.

#Gardening #ExcavatorGardening #MiniExcavator #Homestead #Soil

Pushing it.

#Snow #Excavator #MiniExcavator #Homestead

Lots of very heavy snow arrived. Got some help pushing it.

#Snow #Lithuania #Winter #Excavator #MiniExcavator #Homestead

Grmpf, not the best day. Excavator was in the way of something else, so I drove it out, decided to do some quick jobs to charge the battery up and then parked it outside the barn. Upon turning the key again, nothing at all, not even the solenoid clicking.

Keyswitch ok, battery ok, so I had to trace wires (no diagram, although it's not complicated) until finding the culprit: A failed crimp on a ring terminal where the instrument wiring connects to the starter/battery plus.

Easy fix, put everything back together, two hours down the drain. 😮‍💨

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Repair #DIY #Homestead #Electrical #Troubleshooting

When you're sweaty and tired from potato digging by hand and you've got the excavator out anyways...

It worked, of course, but I'd need an assistant to pick up the potatoes. Hopping on and off all the time is very inefficient.

Also easy to miss a few when you have such a big shovel of dirt.

Much less sweaty though 🤔

#Excavator #Potato #Farm #Digging #Homestead #Gardening #MiniExcavator

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Went south to retrieve wife and buy excavator.

Wife is dubiously inspecting the new living room arrangement, excavator should get delivered tomorrow.

The B&S Petrol engine would've been a six month wait, so I grudgingly went with the KOOP 1 cylinder air-cooled diesel, a copy of a Yanmar design. It's got a year warranty in case it goes wrong (they tend to go wrong early on or not at all from my research).

Bonus: Wide and trenching buckets included!

#Homestead #Excavator #MiniExcavator #DIY