It’s a steep side slope. Wondering about your production rate through the redwoods. How many feet any hour do you think you are cutting? (Not including the retaining wall work in previous vids).
So this section wasn't nearly as bad as the previous sections for side slope. Maybe 30 to 35 degrees. The "slow part" was trying to move as much dirt from the top part of the trail where I started the video down to the bottom to try and keep the travel grade as reasonable as possible. Hence the back and forth dirt shoving. And taking breaks to give the sleeping kid back to his mom, haha. On average, for the guy who's never run an excavator before, I would spend the morning putting in my tpost/branch retaining walls in 50' sections and the afternoons hogging through with the ex. So call it ballpark 25' an hour for the noob on these kinda slopes.
Nope, the extra 1000 pounds of weight and ~5" of width on the 225 would have made some of the sketchier parts of building the trail 100x worse. Not sure I would have gotten past the Section 2 video in anything bigger. 😅 About the only thing I kinda wished for at times with something with zero swing. Any part of the trail with more than a couple feet deep of bench cut was impossible to spin around on. Granted with zero swing, I might have been cursing not having enough weight/leverage to pull out the stumps, so shrug. Overall I still love it, firing it up every chance I get for every dumb project!
@@menjam91 I have 3800 pound and 8500 pound Mini Excavator. I buy all Takeuchi skid steers, but never picked up a Takeuchi Mini. I've rented the TB230, never tried the 216. I'm assuming it has good power? My Kobelco or Case CX17 ZTS is zero turn, 3800 pounds. Nice for tight spaces, but lacks a bit of power compared to Takeuchi.
It’s a steep side slope. Wondering about your production rate through the redwoods. How many feet any hour do you think you are cutting? (Not including the retaining wall work in previous vids).
So this section wasn't nearly as bad as the previous sections for side slope. Maybe 30 to 35 degrees.
The "slow part" was trying to move as much dirt from the top part of the trail where I started the video down to the bottom to try and keep the travel grade as reasonable as possible. Hence the back and forth dirt shoving. And taking breaks to give the sleeping kid back to his mom, haha.
On average, for the guy who's never run an excavator before, I would spend the morning putting in my tpost/branch retaining walls in 50' sections and the afternoons hogging through with the ex. So call it ballpark 25' an hour for the noob on these kinda slopes.
Do you regret going with the 216 over the 225?
Nope, the extra 1000 pounds of weight and ~5" of width on the 225 would have made some of the sketchier parts of building the trail 100x worse. Not sure I would have gotten past the Section 2 video in anything bigger. 😅
About the only thing I kinda wished for at times with something with zero swing. Any part of the trail with more than a couple feet deep of bench cut was impossible to spin around on. Granted with zero swing, I might have been cursing not having enough weight/leverage to pull out the stumps, so shrug.
Overall I still love it, firing it up every chance I get for every dumb project!
@@menjam91 thank you so much for the honest feedback! I really appreciate it a ton!
@@menjam91 I have 3800 pound and 8500 pound Mini Excavator. I buy all Takeuchi skid steers, but never picked up a Takeuchi Mini. I've rented the TB230, never tried the 216. I'm assuming it has good power? My Kobelco or Case CX17 ZTS is zero turn, 3800 pounds. Nice for tight spaces, but lacks a bit of power compared to Takeuchi.