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The mini excavator thread

WaterH said:
Ok, got another miniX question enquiring minds want to know. So you out in the middle of nowhere digging a hole. Your truck is parked conveniently a 100 yards away. You are digging away, minding your own business and out of nowhere comes a 500 lb. Bear. He is mad and walking towards you. He is 25 feet away.

1. Do you jump off the machine and run for the truck?

2. Do you jump off the machine and just walk around the machine keeping the bear on the other side?

3. Or do you swing the bucket to be between you and the bear. When he gets close enough, you punch him with the bucket. If he try’s to get around the side of the bucket, you round house punch him and knock him on his ass. Maybe smash him. Show him who has some real teeth.

All joking aside, I think I would choose number three.
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4. Dig the hole bigger to burry the overgrown raccoon.



Why the fuck is this a question? You're on a hoe...it's a damn bear. Not like it can eat the machine. :laughing:
 
Captain Call said:
Not like it can eat the machine. :laughing:
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Considering the size of the machine......I dunno bout that:lmao:

Only critter not counting angry flying bugs, that ever tried to get into a machine I was on. Was a fucking grouse. Still not sure WTF was goin on with that bird. Cant blame it for liking an M though:grinpimp:
 
Steve300xcw said:
Considering the size of the machine......I dunno bout that:lmao:

Only critter not counting angry flying bugs, that ever tried to get into a machine I was on. Was a fucking grouse. Still not sure WTF was goin on with that bird. Cant blame it for liking an M though:grinpimp:
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Well, grouse are fucking retarded, you know they are. Makes sense why they'd like an M to me. :flipoff2:
 
Captain Call said:
Well, grouse are fucking retarded, you know they are. Makes sense why they'd like an M to me. :flipoff2:
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Was under attack:eek:

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Captain Call said:
4. Dig the hole bigger to burry the overgrown raccoon.



Why the fuck is this a question? You're on a hoe...it's a damn bear. Not like it can eat the machine. :laughing:
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It might be unlikely, but it certainly is possible, in fact, I bet it has happened. Animals don’t see the Machine as a bigger animal. They just see you. There have been cases of a lion breaking windows to get at the guy inside a car. Drug him out and killed him.

Next question, would you like to have the opportunity? I mean, it would be kind of fun right up till it wasn’t. I feel like I could take a bear, but I don’t know if I would bet on it.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
"Bear" is a metaphor for building inspector/code enforcement/assessor.
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So the question is what do you do when the inspector shows up?

If it can’t be seen clearly from the road, gate is closed and locked with some purple paint splashed around it indicating NO TRESPASSING.
 
I'd be more worried about a doe trying to come in the cab. Just because I stopped to take a pic of one of these lil shits. Than I would a bear:laughing:

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You can tell you don’t live where this shit happens, because this would never happen. A bear is not gonna charge someone in a mini excavator. The farmers up here have bears that make dens in the corn fields. When they are combining the bears will stay in the corn until the very last past before they run out. They will not attack machinery.
 
WaterH said:
Ok, got another miniX question enquiring minds want to know. So you out in the middle of nowhere digging a hole. Your truck is parked conveniently a 100 yards away. You are digging away, minding your own business and out of nowhere comes a 500 lb. Bear. He is mad and walking towards you. He is 25 feet away.

1. Do you jump off the machine and run for the truck?

2. Do you jump off the machine and just walk around the machine keeping the bear on the other side?

3. Or do you swing the bucket to be between you and the bear. When he gets close enough, you punch him with the bucket. If he try’s to get around the side of the bucket, you round house punch him and knock him on his ass. Maybe smash him. Show him who has some real teeth.

All joking aside, I think I would choose number three.
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Ignore it and if for some reason it decides to pick a fight with the excavator that's what the pistol is for.
 
You guys that added on thumbs, how did you plumb it?

Mine has the issue that it won't let the bucket curl.

It has a 4 port crossflow relief which isn't working out
 
Steve300xcw said:
Considering the size of the machine......I dunno bout that:lmao:

Only critter not counting angry flying bugs, that ever tried to get into a machine I was on. Was a fucking grouse. Still not sure WTF was goin on with that bird. Cant blame it for liking an M though:grinpimp:
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I was standing a big tilt up panel and a fuckin pigeon flew in the door on my left and died against the window to my right. I came real close to losing my shit because I had no clue what was going on and thought something really bad had happened.
 
WaterH said:
It might be unlikely, but it certainly is possible, in fact, I bet it has happened. Animals don’t see the Machine as a bigger animal. They just see you. There have been cases of a lion breaking windows to get at the guy inside a car. Drug him out and killed him.

Next question, would you like to have the opportunity? I mean, it would be kind of fun right up till it wasn’t. I feel like I could take a bear, but I don’t know if I would bet on it.
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Do they not drug test pilots?
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
You can tell you don’t live where this shit happens, because this would never happen. A bear is not gonna charge someone in a mini excavator. The farmers up here have bears that make dens in the corn fields. When they are combining the bears will stay in the corn until the very last past before they run out. They will not attack machinery.
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When I lived in Canada, I had a Moose try to get at me in a helicopter. I was hovering about 15’ over some swamp and he came out bucking and snorting. I’m sure he would have killed us if I went any lower.
 
WaterH said:
When I lived in Canada, I had a Moose try to get at me in a helicopter. I was hovering about 15’ over some swamp and he came out bucking and snorting. I’m sure he would have killed us if I went any lower.
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What about alligators? What if you’re out there digging a swamp ditch with your mini ex and an alligator tried to eat you? Or a feral python? Florida man meth heads? Those are all scenarios you should probably go over, just in case.
 
AKnate said:
You guys that added on thumbs, how did you plumb it?

Mine has the issue that it won't let the bucket curl.

It has a 4 port crossflow relief which isn't working out
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Relief needs to be just right where the bucket will be able to move the thumb with moderate force....basically the thumb's cylinder should compress instead of the thumb bending.
 
bgaidan said:
Relief needs to be just right where the bucket will be able to move the thumb with moderate force....basically the thumb's cylinder should compress instead of the thumb bending.
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Hmmm, don’t know if mine does this. But my thumb is not going to bend. I generally curl the bucket first to get something and use the thumb as a final grab. I don’t know why you would curl the bucket after you have clamped the thumb.
 
WaterH said:
Hmmm, don’t know if mine does this. But my thumb is not going to bend. I generally curl the bucket first to get something and use the thumb as a final grab. I don’t know why you would curl the bucket after you have clamped the thumb.
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To prevent breaking the thumb cylinder
 
WaterH said:
Hmmm, don’t know if mine does this. But my thumb is not going to bend. I generally curl the bucket first to get something and use the thumb as a final grab. I don’t know why you would curl the bucket after you have clamped the thumb.
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For a more positive purchase and to fight gravity you fucking retard.
 
BUCKLAND said:
JFC WaterH you lived in Canada and don’t know how to deal with bears? YOU FUCKING SHOOT THEM.
Maybe in OSR there is a thread about truck guns, now we need a thread for mini shovel guns:flipoff2::flipoff2:
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You havnt lived in Canada because guns are illegal in most cases. And shooting a bear that’s only trying to kill you? That would be against the law.

BUCKLAND said:
For a more positive purchase and to fight gravity you fucking retard.
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Could you translate this?
 
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WaterH said:
When I lived in Canada, I had a Moose try to get at me in a helicopter. I was hovering about 15’ over some swamp and he came out bucking and snorting. I’m sure he would have killed us if I went any lower.
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a moose is a different animal. They are very territorial and known to charge at people snowmobiles ect.
 
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