On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:42:21 -0500, John H
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:51:08 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze
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On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in
law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend.
Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay
Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee
was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole,
moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun
trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating.


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Cool. I'd like to try that sometime.

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He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think.


Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being
towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy
the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator.

I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun

When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun!

Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?"

"Sure." I said.

So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd
ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day
with that thing.

I want one.

That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me
a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away.
It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it
instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland
I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it
the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around.
I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend).
If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more
days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is
rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing
at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day
rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I
did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of
my 15' high cage.
I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter
Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly
well.

Sounds like a blast. The bucket on the Bobcat wouldn't have gotten me high enough for any Peter
Panning.

The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated
thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out
boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy.
I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster.

After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I
notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then
cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out
front.