“Best Buy” Compact Excavator

“Best Buy” Compact Excavator MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Earth Movers Dean Zimmerman Tunas Mo recently sent FARM SHOW updated photos of his excavator-mounted log splitter that was featured in our last issue “The photos show how my Takeuchi compact excavator hooks up to the splitter ” says Zimmerman “The splitter mounts in place of the bucket It lets me split firewood and load it into a truck or trailer without ever getting off the excavator I can swing the splitter around just like I would swing the bucket around without moving the machine and tearing up the ground ” The close-up photo shows his home-built quick-tach “bucket curl” that’s operated by a hydraulic cylinder “I use the bucket curl to swivel the splitter from a horizontal position to a vertical position and then split the log and drop the pieces into a truck or trailer ” says Zimmerman “I used a piece of pipe the cutting edge off a dozer blade and worn out teeth from an old excavator to build the bucket curl ” He also built a bracket-mounted receiver hitch for the excavator so he can tow a trailer around after loading firewood into it The receiver hitch is supported by 3 pieces of square tubing welded to the excavator’s frame “My Takeuchi excavator is really handy Besides making firewood I also use it to dig trenches and to unload stuff from my trailers ” notes Zimmerman Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Dean Zimmerman 73 Elkhorn Lane Tunas Mo 65764 ph 417 770-1158

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