Digging a Footing (Trenching Comparison)

out a lot of times I try to cut to the chase and get to the point as fast as possible but some of you guys have been saying you'll actually like to watch equipment operate I guess I've been doing in my entire life it's not as fascinating for me anymore but if you guys like it I'm gonna let this one roll so tell me in the comments down below do you want to see longer sequences of equipment in operation because if you do wow that's an easy easy order to fill I'll do that [Applause] I've seen a big another thing to note is that the skid loader needs a lot more space to do a lot dirtier job but also this is soft sand if this was hard-packed clay the excavator would smoke the skid loader the skid loader could still do it but not nearly Abe to this level the skid loader is actually keeping them up with the excavator because the material is so soft that's the only reason why this one happens to be a close call [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right thank you sir appreciate your help so Travis won this we anticipated that he would win this but let's take a look at actually the results of how this trench looked this was a 5 minute 30 foot trench so it wasn't meant to be pretty but it was meant to be a demonstration and we got fills over here you can definitely see where you've got better better ability with the mini excavator but if you don't have one you can still get the job done right all right so let's pass let's back this thing up real quick now overall if you were gonna buy one piece of equipment Travis well what are you gonna say mini excavator or skid loader for the skid loader I think it's a strategy perhaps an untested strategy but I think if a guy start with the mini axe I think you'd have a major advantage over got start to the skid wager you can do more tasks with a mini you can dig out stumps you could either do tree service it's lower damage so if you look at the site fill site over there it's got a lot of