Dingo video's

[Grn Mtn]

I just found this file, it was me using the Dingo for the first time. It was a few years ago and I had to rip out lots of shrubs and dig out for the stone wall/patio, bring in tons of gravel and mulch and fit thru a small fence opening. This is where I learned a lot about the Dingo, using the backhoe, its limitations and its possibilities.

The first one is me holding the camera while moving the backhoe arm with one hand.

The second one is me moving some material thru the fence but the bucket had to be lifted up and over so it would fit.

The third is me taking a video as I am walking down the path to the bird watching bench. All the plants are in (I made a meadow) but some mulch still needs to be put it.

[Grn Mtn]

Ahh, I just found two more.

The first one is me moving soil from the staging area over a make-shift bridge I built out of scrap 8x8's and plywood.

The second is me and a helper shoveling the dirt up to the second planting tier. The turf friendly tracks on the tx420 did not have enough bite to make it up the hill so this was the best it would do. Eventually we had to move the rest with 5 gallon buckets:eek:

It was a neat project though, I rented a 26' Ryder Truck and loaded it up with 2 pallets of BlackDiamond mulch, 300 plants and the Dingo. Than drove it down to Keuka lake. It rained everyday that I had scheduled to work on the project. :realmad:

[zim bob the landscaper]

thats kool that must have sucked raining all the time i hate the rain. thats inly ine dingo right? if it is thats awesome i read everything and thats one nice project.

[Grn Mtn]

... thats inly ine dingo right?....

ahh, need help with this one, what were you trying to say that the fingers didn't co-operate on?

[Jason Rose]

ahh, need help with this one, what were you trying to say that the fingers didn't co-operate on?


I'm going to guess he was asking if it "was only one dingo" :dizzy:

Nope. The first was a wheeled stand-on and the 2nd was a track walkbehind.

Iv'e got to run a tracked walkbehind before. Really a neat little machine once you get fimiliar with it. It's not going to move mountians but it sure will sneak into about anywhere. We used one to load several trailer loads of topsoil from a old pile and it worked very well. It's made just so that you can heap full the bucket and it's just balanced. We also had a landscape rake which worked nice, but I still wish it had been a harley rake.

[Grn Mtn]

Thanks for the decode, and yes it was two different jobs, two different Dingo's.

[zim bob the landscaper]

sorry about that i should have took my time im sorry for all the confusion.

[Grn Mtn]

Don't be sorry, thanks for the comments, usually I can decipher but for some reason today it just wasn't in the cards.

[Grn Mtn]

No video this time, just illustrating how I moved 12 yards of soil by myself, and its final result.

[YardPro]

i'll add some pics in a day or so... don't have many (i'm not a pic person), but i do have some with the sod roll layer being used...

[South Florida Lawns]

Nice work.

Do you rent or own the Dingo's?

How do they hold up to rough work (if you own one)?

How do you like them?

I'm currently looking at a tracked toro or bobcat.

[YardPro]

i am pretty rough on stuff and mine has held up just fine..

[YardPro]

here are some pics of the sod roll layer

[YardPro]

here's a few more

[fishinman22487]

Having a sod roller sure beats laying sod by hand:cry: I think that laying sod by HAND could possibly be the most tedious repetitive labor there is on this world especially when it feels like 120 degrees and there is no wind, ughhhh not a fun day!!!!!

Yardpro you own that Dingo right? If so, did you buy it new or bought it as a demo unit?

[Gilla Gorilla]

The tracked Dingos are GREAT. I put mine through hell and back some times and it just keeps asking for more. Just make sure to keep the tension on the tracks tight and to specs or else you will be in the worst place when they walk off on you like when it happened to me on one of my tracks of my TX420.

Here is a picture of a simple task for the Dingo. This walkway was attached to 4X4's that were set in the ground but it pulled the walkway away from the footers with no problem.

[vadeere]

Is that a baby rockhound in the foreground?

[Grn Mtn]

Looks like the 4-in-1 to me.

Hey Yardpro, thanks for the picts, seeing the dunes in the background remind me I'll be in the OBX this April and again in the fall:)

[Gilla Gorilla]

vadeere it is the 4n1 bucket although I do have the soil conditioner attachment that works great in dry soil or dry grass to cultivate up

[Grn Mtn]

SWEEEEEEET.:clapping: That is the one attachment I've wanted my rental yard to get, but they got the Harley rake instead:confused: :hammerhead: How well does it work in rocky soil? Do you kill the grass first or will it just dump it down 6", did you get the optional seed tray to go with it?

[Gilla Gorilla]

Grn Mtn

It does well with rocks that are smaller than your fist. If they are bigger then you run the risk of them locking up the tines until you reverse then. Plus it will not bury the bigger rocks like it will the smaller ones. The one thing that I noticed with the soil conditioner is that if you are tilling up a area that has smaller rocks in it, it does bury them but if you are just seeding that area then the rocks show up with a vengance after a hard or a lot of rainfall. If you are laying sod over top of the cultivated area then it is great.

No I did not know about the optional seed box when I bought my unit back in last March, had I I probably would have bought it then.

As for killing the grass off, it depends if it has a lot of weeds and what you plan on doing with the area once it is tilled up. I also take the front roller off alot and use just the tiller and tines to mix up the compost or top soil that I bring in when creating new landscape beds or doing any type of rough grading. If the soil is damp a couple inches deep then you might want to take the roller off so it does not get clogged up with mud and not work properly then.