New Toy for stone wall project ( update )

[FastPaul 0]

I'm going to try my hand at building a stone wall next to the driveway!! I got a triaxle ljavascript:openWindowGal('pop_upload.asp?TOPIC_ID=81649&MEMBER_ID=7420') Upload Picture or Fileoad of stone to play with!!So, I had the perfect excuse to buy a new toy to help move the heavy rocks. I still have to dig down about 4" more and put in some 3/4 crushed stone to build on. I found this little mini excavator on the side of the road the other day . 2003 Bobcat 322 It's really an impressive little machine for it's size !and it even came with a thumb. It only took about an 1/2 hour to dig out the dirt where the wall is going to go. I'll try to keep a running post of progress on the project, Any tips on this would be great, this is my first attempt at this kind of project

Well I've Started to make a little progress !! Very slow going . A lot harder than I thought it would be ' Anyway The 926 I put together this winter has proven to be quite the workhorse, It will pull anything ,I can load the trailer with a lot of rocks and it pulls it really nice , The little bobcat has been quite handy also .The thumb works great I can load and unload the trailer with it, But building the wall is all hand work except for the really big ones the pic. of the rock in the bucket is about 400 lbs. Heres some pics of the progress so far

After seeing this pic. I'm going to have to do some more fine tuning and change the three rocks stacked on top of each other to look a little better I didden't notice it outside until I saw the pic.

After and before

[builder386 0]

now I'm totally jealous. First your beautiful fleet of restored tractors, now a mini!!! And it looks to be hardly used or very well cared for. By all means, you can bring that up to Maine if it gets under-used at your place! :D

[shanhamm 0]

I'm suprised you have not built a back hoe for one of your tractors yet!!! Very nice toy to have Paul!

[Marty-MN 0]

toys toys toys what would we do if we could not play

[Roy 0]

Beautiful toy. I love the "mini" excavators, back hoes, and dozers. ^

[Willy 2]

Paul you muct have a very understanding wife, or you are very good at snow jobs. I would love to have a machine like that, and I could probably have one,--(right after the divorce.):D

[B-16_IC 1,029]

Wow!! As if us "small timers" didn't have enough reasons for jealousy.:p My 'hoe was made by TrueTemper.:o) BTW,you will find the thumb to be most handy!8D

[DMedal 1]

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Originally posted by Willy
I would love to have a machine like that, and I could probably have one,--(right after the divorce.):D

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Ummm, you never been divorced have ya, Jim? You'd be lucky to be able to afford the TrueTemper hoe. I gotta ask the dumb question: "thumb" ? -Don

[UCD 14]

Last picture, arm just above bucket with hydraulic cylinder on it. It acts like a thumb on your hand to hold objects in bucket IE large stones, timbers etc.

[DMedal 1]

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Originally posted by UCD
Last picture, arm just above bucket with hydraulic cylinder on it. It acts like a thumb on your hand to hold objects in bucket IE large stones, timbers etc.

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Oh! that was obvious. thanks Maynard

[johnmonkey 4]

Real nice piece of equipment. jh

[MPH 12]

Sweet score on that one Paul. Gotta be fun to operate.

[acken 208]

Pack the h*** out of the 3/4 crushed limerock, at least 6-8" thick. Make sure and backfill with something that will drain well, sometimes I even put drain tile in behind wall. All of mine are made with block, so no advice on using rock.

[johnsup 0]

If you don't ever want it to heave from the frost, then you might want to get alot deeper into the ground than that....I had to fix my mom's wall a couple of years ago and that was the problem...Nice machine....how far apart are the tracks from inside to inside? Good Luck, John

[ronb212 0]

what , no action shots? where is the flat stone?

[gtwygreg 0]

You have some really cool toys Paul, I could use a neighbor like you!

[Kent 436]

C'mon... Building rock walls is supposed to be back-breaking work, not butt-sitting play... sm06

[Boney 0]

nice work you are doing there