Excavations with Limited Access Mini Diggers
19 February 2015Every tight angle and reduced body part on a mini digger is a defining factor in its function. This mobile machine is designed to navigate claustrophobic spaces, turning within its own track width to reach hitherto unreachable work areas. Simultaneously, the compact digger is a hero in bridging two well-defined scenarios, allowing the skills of the manual labourer to meet the expertise of the heavy-plant excavator.
Lest there be any confusion at this point, we’ll clarify our bridge metaphor by stating a proven fact, one learned the hard way by landscape contractors, digging land by hand is excruciatingly hard and time consuming. A mini digger, an excavator with the scaled abilities of its bigger brothers, can easily duplicate those skills. More than this, the little excavator can do the same job in a fraction of the time it takes to accomplish the same work by hand, a benefit that will be seen by the operator, the project manager, and, best of all, the client. In short, everyone’s a winner. Placing the final cherry on the pie, a prospective mini digger operator doesn’t even need to purchase the wheeled digging marvel, since many rental facilities are more than happy to hire one out and provide the perfect attachment for the job at hand.
Imagine renting or buying the mini digger and delivering it to the work site. We’ll have a little fun here and create a hypothetical case study. Grass and landscaping is in place. The digger has been called to carve out a trench and backfill the work afterwards. The street is narrow, the garden entrance is narrower still, and the client is worried about damage to the property. A couple of guys sweltering in the noonday heat might get the work done by sunset, but why take this approach when there’s a mini digger revving its engine nearby? Call it in to skirt the flower beds and the limited access offered by this enclosed property. Opt for a model with a minimal tail swing, a section of the swinging digger body that’s designed with a low profile. The advantage of this design is in knowing the digger is free to rotate without causing property damage due to a protruding chassis.
Turning our attention to ground contact, the limited access motif is extended by the addition of soft rubber tracks or oversized rubber wheels, a weight distribution solution that ensures the nimble machine can turn on a penny and do so without defiling the turf. Naturally, the lower weight of the mini digger reinforces this motion, but this lightweight profile does have one contradictory feature. We’re talking about lifting power and versatility. Small it may be, but a mini digger has earned contractor loyalty time and again by making urban clearance projects and residential landscaping assignments a breeze.
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