CLOSE CALL! NEW Mini Excavator Plus 4 Tractors INSIDE The Pond! Kubota U48-5
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2023
- New Kubota U48-5 mini-excavator joins the Tractor Time with Tim lineup to dig out the pond. Ken from Bolt on Hooks uses the Deere 5075E, Kenton tries the 2038R, Rex gets the new Deere 4075R cab, and new friend Jeff uses the 3046R to remove muck.
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It was so fun being a part of that! Had a great time playing in the muck with your tractors!
What a blast working with everyone on this project! It reminds me of the fun I had as a kid playing in the dirt, only on a much grander scale. There is something about the joy of coming together to work on a project that is so much fun and satisfying. Thanks for letting me be a small part. Blessings to everyone. Kenton
Your comment reminded me of a skit a comedian did. I wish I could remember who it was. But a single line has always stuck with me. The comedian was talking about boys playing outside and he got real close to the mike during one part to emphasize this line. "Building roads in the dirt that don't go anywhere!"
That line has always stuck with me, as I built many a road in the dirt that didn't go anywhere. Just looped back to another road. :D
Tim just wanted to say I appreciate how open and honest you have always been on the channel besides watching you and your friends play in a giant sand box it’s what make me come back to watch week after week
Thanks for watching, Shane!
Congratulations Tim and Christy on the new excavator. Think the zero tail swing will pay off in your odd projects that you do. Werk Brau buckets are very good , look at the root rake too that Mike Morgan bought. Good luck on the pond and give thanks to all your helpers.
It looked like a Mud Hole Square Dance going on. Lots of action all around the pond and the mini ex doing the calling. The Kubota looks like the perfect addition to your stable of equipment. Next maybe a small rock truck you can fill and haul out. Great video.
Love the headphone setup. Great fun. Thanks tim!
Having a lot of fun! This machine is SMOOTH!
When you mentioned that you were intimidated in a heavy equipment dealership, i appreciate your humility in stating what many of us feel. Its easy to feel in over your head even in an ag store when youre looking for parts or service for a subcompact or even garden size tractor.
You and Christy are "good people" as we say.
Yep. ..and the dealers know about the intimidation factor. They just don’t seem to try to fix it.
Tim, congrats on finally get an excavator. That tractor incident made my toes curled just a little. I’m glad he was able to save that one.
Looking forward to seeing more on the pond and the final outcome. Stay safe everyone!
You forgot about Casey! It's been a while, I guess. They did have a mini ex years ago.
Edit : He mentions Casey a few seconds after I finished typing :)
@@jagx234 I didn’t think he purchased Casey
I appreciate the transparency, you are the rare YT’er that does this.
Congratulations on you mini x. That’s super nice Tim.
Awesome job Tim!!! Teamwork makes the dream work
Ive really been enjoying the Pond project!! All the ingenuity, and problem solving!
That was fun! Glad you could get a mini excavator!
Man that looks like fun Tim. Congratulations on the mini x.
Great teamwork with the tractors clearing out the muck. Congrats on the Kubota mini ex!
Love the new mini! Don’t hesitate to have “Mini Ex Time with Tim” Many of us small acreage owners have become owners of these and thoroughly enjoy what they can do and want to learn more. Mini and compact tractor complement each other in many use cases.
Tim you are operating the mini-ex so smooth
Good job.
Good job guys
Great transparency Tim always appreciate the honesty about acquiring equipment
That looked like a ton of fun! Man, the sound set up was so cool! It was like hanging on the site with you all!
Congratulations on your new mini excavator, I know you'll love it. That all looks like fun and I wish I could be there to help.
2,3,4 and a 5 series deere in one video...I love it!:D (the Kubota is pretty much invisible for me)😄
I loved the tractor party! Would love to see it again!
Nice excavator Tim. Nice save Kenny 👍
Good luck with the pond. A big job for the normal homeowner.
Fun. Looks like a lot of progress. Congratulations on the excavator
I can’t wait for more details on the excavator!!
It looks like a good choice so far.
The Other Tim With Tractors
Looking great!!!! Very glad no collisions!!!!
Enjoyed it.
Very entertaining. That many radios with tractors was just the thing. Can't wait to see the outcome.
Looked like a fun tractor day! Sure wish I could get away to join in. Those headsets and the ability to talk to each other would be a game changer for many jobsites.
Would love to have you! Got the muck all out now. Ready for next step…trying to fix the leakage in the top 4 ft.
Looked like fun. Kenyon didn’t get much air time!!!!! The smaller excavator is a great addition to your fleet.😊
Renting an excavator is always an option for those of us with fewer jobs to do. Our local shop rents a mini ex for around $250-300 Canadian for a day.
I could have gotten by with a 10k trailer for hauling my tractor but stepped up to a 15k specifically to be able to pick up a skid steer or mini excavator from the rental yard from time to time.
I actually did the opposite of Tim and switched my backhoe over to excavator controls. I don’t know how anyone could operate the dipper and curl on the same stick smoothly.
Ya it was painful to watch all the inefficency and screwing around. Could have done that job faster with excavator and a dump trailer. Ramps r on the opposite side of where they are dumping. 😮
Great video!
I look forward to seeing all new uses you have for the mini excavator. I appreciate your transparency with us viewers on here. I enjoy Messicks videos too.
They do give you a helping hand with your land and pranking ideas
That was awesome. Watching all those tractors and a excavator. Looking forward to seeing more videos on the pond work. I need to work on my pond. I’ve been planning to buy a backhoe attachment for my John Deer 2320. But I’m wondering if I would be better off renting a excavator for a few days to clean up the banks on my pond. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and as you said keep your buckets low.
This is exciting
Hey Tim, good job good coordination you guys looked like you were working well together out there
I'm sure you will enjoy the new excavator Tim. I'm trying to talk myself into getting one but haven't been successful yet. I'm sure it will be like my tractor(s) where I find many more uses for it once I get it than I could think of before I got it. Or at least that's what I'm hoping.
This was a big deal for you to go and get the excavator. That was a great idea and having some many great friends to come by and run their tractors and help out is wonderful. The job calls for helpers to make progress. Thanks for sharing your videos with us and keep them coming.
There ya go
Looking good and thr front lawn looks amazing
When we took the plunge and got a mini, it was the best investment for our property (after a tractor, of course). Tractor Hard! 🚜💪!
Love the new excavator. Have the backhoe for my 1025r and it comes in handy. Would still like to have a mini excavator for my place, but for the amount of use I have for one it may be the used market for me.
I appreciate your honesty on Financials.
You definitely had the "A" team for this project. Enjoyed the video.
I was waiting for you to get this Tim. You will find a ton of things to do with that. Nice!!
Congrats on new excavator Tim. Great choice. I have run Kubota, John Deere and Bobcat mini exs and the Kubota was the nicest and smoothest by far. Can't beat the product and support from a good dealer. I understand your issue with used stuff. I have been searching for a full size excavator all year. Auctions scare me so I stick with dealers. The nice machines sell quick.
I really like your mini-excavator purchase and I'm looking forward to seeing how you use it in future projects! I'd be curious to learn how you settled on sizing to the U48-5 vs larger or smaller units. I assume budget, capability, and weight for transporting all came into the equation.
Discussed in the video.
@@TractorTimewithTim Hate to be disagreeable but it was not very detailed in the video. I would have guessed you wanted a bigger one .. however there might have been transportation reasons, limited options for the choice / dealer etc. Bigger is better, except when moving off road
@@NotMuchHere hmm. Maybe I didn’t mention as much as I intended. This is the biggest one I can haul and stay under 26,000 CDL limit.
i would really like to see a truck and trailer tuesday showing how you haul your mini excavator and proper tie down methods along with how much your truck trailer and machine weigh@@TractorTimewithTim
@@dustincauley1451 yes, that would be a good idea. Lemme see what I can do.
Nice have good friends to help you there Tim y'all did a good job from gary
I love how it plays a great theme song
Great video as always, and it looked like you guys had fun! One thing that I think is slightly unclear is your strategy for this job. You're looking to remove all the silt and ensure you don't lose water from the reconstructed pond once you get down to all solid clay, but what's the plan for the silt, and are you intending to use the better soil you're also removing to backfill in the holes once all the silt has been removed? Is the plan to have a flat bottomed pond or are you happy with different levels/deeper holes in the pond as long as it doesn't leak? How are the sides going to be formed? OK, I know that's a lot of questions(!) but it'd give a better insight into the results you're looking to achieve with the tractors and excavator. I think it's really great that you will be able to show the strengths and limitations of tractors (and vice versa for the excavator) on this and (I assume) other jobs in the future. It'd be really great to understand what an excavator can and can't do in the ways you've showed us what a tractor's strengths and weaknesses are over the years. Finally, I'm not sure how you're bribing the tractor fund manager to add an excavator to the fleet, but I'm sure Christy is going to start to show up in future videos in Christian Louboutin shoes and Tiffany jewels! 😂
Thanks Neal for helping Tim out, I have a KX 033-4 open station, really looking forward to upgrading to a KX 057-5 cab model in the future. I am definitely a Kubota Guy, I have Three currently B3200 TLB, and a B2601. Previously I had a BX23 2005 model, and a BX 2380. I have stopped by and talked to Neal previously, and have an account at Messick's and order supplies all the time.
Thanks 👍
LOL, Looks like Neil is checking his customers' work.
You need to get Tim to trade his LX to Grand L. We love our Grand L. We love the deluxe features. Especially the hydraulic skid steer quick attach that we ordered with ours.🎉
That Kubota is a nice machine
Thank you, great video
It was like watching a mini Farm Progress Show with you guys all in a tractor or excavator and operating at the same time. What also came to my mind was the old saying “happier than a pig in mud!” Now the next question is who got to wash all of those tractors? 😂
Kenton washed 3 of them for the next episode!
LOL, I figured some other CZcams Channel folks would get involved with this pond. However, you surprised me by reaching out to Messick's for the purchase deal.
John Deere does really build their own minis. That was a partnership between Deere and Hitachi, all be it on the mini side probably a bit more Hitachi. I have ran them, Kubota Takeuchi and Komatsu. Any of them are awesome machines. If you have a lot of JD already, I dont see anything wrong with going with a Deere mini.
Cept Deere is moving away from the Hitachi design. Will be partnering with a different manufacturer within 2 years.
@@TractorTimewithTim Interesting. Do you have a source for that statement @ Deere? Because the conversations I have had were they are now on their own, with an agreement to continue off the current partner design to further refine. I believe it’s like their skid steers. Not many people know that Deere had a partnership with New Holland to build their skid steers back in the day. Then Deere eventually started to build their own based off that design and making it their own.
Tim hope you got my post about keeping pond full about digging trench around the pond to seal it from leaching through the top soil love your videos
That was my mistake when I dug mine. Think it’s called a key trench.
Love to see it
Thanks for watching!
I hope you post an final evaluation on that 4075 at the end of your time with it.
Congrats on the new mini!
It was Casey that brought me to your channel years back. I was in the market for a mini Ex at the time. Since then, we've bought a 2038r and have loved it dearly. It was only this week I pulled the trigger on my Yanmar 55 that should be ready next week or so. Looking forward to seeing your expertise get the most out of your Kubota. Rotary cutter is my 1st big attachment as maintaining farm fields, pond banks and trails are its main duties!
Thanks for staying with us for all these years. Still love the 2038r.
The Yanmar 55 is just a bit too heavy for us to haul.
Have no idea if the Kubota is the best choice, but we’ll see how it goes.
For new equipment so great offer besides 0 percent loan too!!
Wish I knew you were in Findlay, I live nearby! Hope you enjoyed it!! I'm excited for you and your new toy!
Hope to see you use the Mini more I have been looking at the next size down for a while for building retaining walls.
I remember doing that same thing a few times... In the sand box when I was a kid... And it looks like just as much fun!!
Very enjoyable to watch and listen. Would love to have that muck once it dries. I'm surprised at how deep that muck goes.
The four deerman of the pondocalypse!
🇨🇦
Great video, great work! Just a thought, when the pond is done and full and the banks get growing tall you might wanna invest in a brush cutter for the mini, that extra reach will be handy. Best Regards, Jay
I have rennet three Kubota mini excavators from Messicks and I must say I am more impressed with the mini excavators then there tractors u 35 which was probably my most favorite I love my green machines, but I would definitely take an orange mini excavator it didn’t even mind the cold weather. Just wish they would have forgotten to come pick it back up.
@ 6:50 looks like some sort of duck duck goose game. Green, green, green, green, ORANGE!
great segment Tim. How deep is that muck.....i dont think you are ever going to bottom out. that was a close call with that tractor.....fun watching you with the pond.
Haven’t found the bottom of the gray/blue clay. I can find a ‘hard bottom’ of sorts, then when water hits it, it soaks in and softens up.
Tim you had much more of a sports announcer effect going on this as you were calling out your teammate actions!
18:16 Been there. My, ….umm, bottom went into a full pucker just watching that. Lowering the bucket becomes instinct. Glad Ken was able to save it.
I had to come watch this after i seen messicks upload his today
This was a great video with great content! Love both listening and watching the strategy! This was fascinating!
Tim it would be awesome if you could get your hands on a 1 or 2 ton dump wagon that runs off your tractor remotes, pull it around with the 4r or 5e and load it with the mini X. Mud slop would be easier to handle
Backhoe to Mini controls is akin to going from hand and foot skidsteer to pilot control.
Several years ago went through the same process of mucking out a pond that had gotten silted up well above the clay layer. First attempted with tractor loaders, but it was way too sloppy. Then hired someone with a mini-ex, but one bucket at a time was going to take forever. Finally wised up & rented a tracked skid steer, which worked the best by far. Didn’t get stuck in the muck due to the tracks, and was able to take much larger buckets of muck up & out of the pond. PS-Neil sold me my used B2150 several years ago. Love Messicks!
I'm on my 3rd pond clean out c all with my track skid steer and I never got stuck too but the 1 st pond I did when I was done they had to pull me out of the pond I couldn't make it out
Tim, you never mentioned the custom Messics start-up feature built in your new mini-ex! 🎶 I'd mail Neil a cheeseburger.😅
Get that pond 30ft deep with walleye!
Boys with toys… I mean - men working! LOL. Love the video, especially the bit about choosing excavator brand / size. Yes, a tractor with a backhoe is great but some jobs just can’t be done.
Tim you should make an area around the bank where the water is shallow, maybe a foot deep, and make the soil under the water flat.
You could partially drain the pond (lose one foot of water) and plant rice in the shallows, and gradually top the pond back off as the rice grows.
Kubota sells a self propelled rice transplanter for muddy paddy in Japan, sometimes you can find them for $3,000 used. They also make combines, you would be surprised how small those combines get Tim.
I looked it up, it would cost me $1500 shipping to get one of those things shipped used from Japan. Would love to see you check some of those machines out, kubota rice transplanters, iseki and kubota harvesters, whatever size, everything in Japan is sub compact.
Maybe I’d be willing to have it sent to you first before I get it, when I buy it for myself, if you make a video with it.
Enjoyed the video. Big boys with lots of toys having some fun. Any thoughts about acquiring a small dozer?
Tim others have commented that this is painful to watch……. I totally disagree…. It does show case the new mini X which is awesome btw and congrats on that smart purchase! What this video does do is however is…… prove that if you have a pond to clean out get the right equipment and knock it out quickly. A wide track CAT D6K w/6way blade would be my choice mainly because I own one😂😂😂. Y’all be careful out there with the equipment you are using as it all seems a little tippy on the slopes. I really enjoy the projects keep em coming! 👍👍
Love the voice of customer on going into a construction equipment manufacturer. Have you visited McAllister? I encourage you to visit their main store if you're south of Indy at some point. Great team and friendly.
They keep the buckets to high when moving.
look at renting a small single axle dump trailer and pulling with a tractor. I did this when back filling my house to move dirt from 2 lots down the street. I loaded with a Bobcat and pulled the trailer with a Kubota B7500. We moved huge amount dirt in one day.
the jaw bone bucket from AMI is a cool idea
With all the excitement of the work, did i miss what you are going to do with all the silt?
Nice excavator. Would you go over some details on the transport aspect...excavator weight, trailer and capacity, truck, under/over CDL, and if that was part of the decision making process, thanks.
Yes, a major part.
Great content as always Tim! Love that you added the mini to the team. Whats ots name going to be? Kubbie? Do you think you could cast kind of a vision of what your plan is over all with the pond? Sort of like dig drive diy did?
Minnie
I wonder on the process. Think I would lay some 'tile pipe' (black plastic) down through having access to drain into the road ditch. Then fill the whole pond with dirt. And fill from all sides and extend the sides towards each other. packing as you go and adding until it is over the other side. Might be the only way to do this. Good luck.
Can you say why you chose the Kubota mini over John Deere, Case,
Cat etc ? Or why you went with a mini excavator over a good used fullsize backhoe?
Wow!! What a great video! I am sure you will get very proficient with the U48 after a couple hundred hours. My neighbor has the U048-5 and it is a very nice machine. He was helping take some trees down last week. It was really neat have my KX057-5 and his U048-5 working together to clean up the mess. It took about 1/4 of the time with the 2 excavators then when I was doing it alone. His only issue with the 048 is that he is so tall that he can’t use the foot controls, the cab is a little small for him. My 057-5 has a larger cab with more leg room and a dual adjustable seat.
Anyway as always the presentation of the video and all that equipment not hitting each other was fantastic. Also you will soon learn to love the rear camera. Oh yeh, take a look at the little locked door under the seat. Next to the door under the seat you will find the cabin/ air conditioner filter. The cabin air intake is on the door side and directly over the track. I would recommend that you clean that filter a minimum of twice a day. The first thing you will notice that it is needing cleaner is the the air is not as cold as you would like. Those filters are around $70.00 each so keep it clean and clean it often.
Thanks for info on air filter.
I am comfortable in the cab.
Do you find the 57 to be significantly more capable than the 48?
@@TractorTimewithTim not significantly like a Volvo 220, but the comfort level is out of the cramped range. The 48 feels like it is approaching the cramped but OK feeling for me and I only 5’8”. The 57 has two seat adjustments. One just moves the seat like in the 48 and one that moves the entire seat and controls.
@@TractorTimewithTim sorry I didn’t answer your question. The 57 weights 13,000 lbs and the bucket break out force is supposed to be 10,000 lbs plus. But the stuff that my neighbor does with his 48 is very adequate. The 48 is 2000 pounds lighter, but it is still over 10,000 so a CDL is required. With the hydraulic flow at of the 57 37 vs 31 of the 48 and the extra weight. Yes I think the 05 is a little more capable. That being said the 57 is still a mini excavator and I have found that it is very easy to find its limits. LOL
did you have to get pond ok ed by codes?
Use PIG MAT'S as seat covers for easy clean up on those tip times.
You need a good size dump trailer to haul the muck out of your pond
Figured your NC visit would seal the deal on the mini excavator after working with your buddy on that driveway project.
Had already made the deal :-).