For domestic use, there is no license required to use an excavator on your own property so hiring one is completely possible and common place. Watch as I show you some of the work I’ve carried out and how I use a mini digger and dumper around my garden.
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Tip for you I learnt from an old pro, when you’ve got something heavy like that, track up to it with blade facing it and low. Bring the arm and push squeeze it up to the blade. Lift blade and arm together and you’ll lift it up. Then just track it to where want it.
The real question… what part of Britain did you manage to find a property with SO MUCH LAND attached to it?! That Garden alone is bigger than my house & garden 🙁
I would slide that engine on to a piece of plywood or something and drag it out to the curb by using the the equipment you rented.
You could have made a car with all those parts you found !
Great job.
Most splendid Stuart! A great task well done.
Just love Heavy plant videos and I don't mean massive Beetroots😂😂 had a mate who's job was to hire these diggers out, was told by a guy that he didn't need any training
and subsequently demolished his own conservatory……..be warned guys.
How long was Mrs ProperDIY stood yelling at you telling you to come indoors after playing on that thing & how did Keith Brown not appear in this video to play on the equipment?! 🤣
How many cylinders did that block have? Just to tell how many pistons germinate when you didn't put any compost in the hole lol😅
You should have ask the hire company for a land rake or riddle bucket for the mini digger. That way you could take the roots out without getting out of the mini digger.
Good Lord Stuart, youve really got a huge job on your hands but the machine is a big help…..why didnt you try to sell that engine, even for just spare parts….there are many people who would pay big money for that…..take care
I think the fence looks nice like that kinda rustic 🤣🤣🤣
Brambles are the skinheads of the weed world.
Modified from a Craig Ferguson joke about wasps.
Worse than nettles even. lol.
That actually looks like a very rare and valuable engine from a Talbot Lago coupe. With light restoration it could be worth thousands and thousands of pounds so, put it carefully to one side and get on the phone to Bonhams………. oh………..🫣
Could you not have dragged the engine with a chain or strap using the excavator?
Anyone else wondering what the engine came from? Being a petrolhead I would love to know!
buying the engine instead of either A) splitting the gearbox and engine or B) rolling it on to a sheet of that scrap steel and skidding it out with the digger to somewhere more accessible seems REALLY sensible……
Nice one. Time Team will dig that up and marvel at it in a future episode in say 2,000 years.
Great video! Although now I’m looking for reasons to hire a mini digger! The only thing I would add to anyone planning there own excavations, check with your local electric, gas and water operators as digging and damaging their buried cables and pipes can be dangerous and expensive!
By burying the engine surely, it goes against the ethos of the channel to show people how to "proper"ly overcome with engineering know how how to resolve an issue such as this. Burying it is a lazy cop-out and goes against the channels' high-quality output of dealing and overcoming problems. It's the norm these days for people to bury their heads in the sand (engines in this case) and ignoring the environmental and ethical issues here. You say there was no oil left, but you had no way of knowing. By dismantling it in a hollow in the ground, lined with heavy duty pvc to collect contaminates. It would make a good video, put the metal back into the recycling system, gave you a return in scrap value, and most importantly of all. Showed people how to do the "right" thing.
Can't wait for the follow-up video of how to deal with a massive diesel engine found dumped and buried on your land, "properdiy"ly.
I probably would have split the gearbox and engine. Surely could have lifted one or both then. Quite a bit of scrap value
Fun!
Your brave filming that. You'll have a bunch of tree huggers round glueing their heads to your drive….
Not impressed with your burying skills, as I was with your clearing ones! Got to dig my small garden myself.
I hired a Kubota micro digger (0.8 tonne) for a weekend to help clear and level a 100ft back garden. Apart from acting as a digger, leveller and compactor all in one, and doing the job in a day or so, it was the most fun I had all lockdown! 😁
Great job, very enjoyable video 👏🏼
That fence will polish out in no time!
RIP four cylinder engine. We hardly knew ye.
seems like that engine block could have been rolled to the pickup point very easily..!
Hi Stuart. I have been watching all your videos since the lockdown years in 2021. Have loved them all. Clear descriptions with a slight edge of humour. Have recommended them to several people now. I was a little disappointed you felt the only option left to you was to bury the engine and gearbox in a hole for someone else to worry about in the future. Its your land and your decision but in the current climate of pollution in rivers and seas it seems to me to be an error in judgment. Just my opinion. Wont stop me looking forward to your next video though.