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Digging a proper drainage ditch with mini excavator

Continuing on with projects around the homestead with this mini excavator is a drainage ditch. After clearing the land with ...
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Closer Look: Kubota’s New U17-5 Mini Excavator Brings Toughness to Tight Spaces

Kubota rolls out its next-generation 1.7-metric-ton U17-5 mini excavator with retractable tracks and zero tail swing for work ...
Construction Equipment

What's the Difference between Mini-Excavators and Compact Excavators?

The swing boom on the Hitachi ZX85USB-3 excavator enables digging parallel to walls with an “ultra-short-swing” machine that's still sized at 8.5 metric tons. That is beyond the official ...
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Is This Mini Excavator Too Small To Dig Out Stumps?

In exchange for fixing the broken wood chipper a couple weeks ago a friend of mine held up his end of the deal and dropped off his mini excavator so I could use it to finish up some projects. First ...
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DEVELON Introduces DX89R-7 Mini Excavator With Greater Lifting Capacity

DEVELON (formerly Doosan Infracore construction equipment) has launched its DX89R-7 mini excavator in the the United States and Canada. The new DX89R-7 mini excavator replaces the DX85R-3 and features ...
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Your Next Backhoe Could Be A Mini Excavator

Mini excavators are so many different things to so many different buyers that the industry can’t agree on the size range that defines “mini.” Miraculously, diverse buying influences have unanimously ...