Love how you go into great detail on how to operate all different kind of machinery! Keep it up!

You present such interesting, informative, and professional-quality videos, Ryan. Thanks for sharing your time...

Thanks for all the great videos Ryan look forward to them all every week. Keep up all the great work!!!

Thanks for sharing Ryan. Keep up the great work...

Love all the "how to operate" videos. Good job Ryan👍🏻

Not sure if it's been mentioned, the difference between excavator mode and backhoe is it shifts the main boom/dipper arm control from the left stick to the right. I'm in the UK and use excavator mode most of the time if I use them as it's more handy having the boom on the sleu/left stick. Also you usually dig with full rpms. Great video though, very handy if you can justify them, if not like you said just rent when needed.

I love your how to videos and all the rest keep up the good work

Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family

Your videos are soo clear I can see the nats and Flys

Cool video Ryan! That WOULD be very useful around the farm! Happy to see Rocket again! Congrats to Tyler if you see this comment!

Great demo! Really enjoying your vids and I am presently out shopping for a small farm, so your videos are really educational!

Just realized we will be camping near you this week. Bringing some southern Indiana to the great state of Wisconsin for the week.

All of your videos are great keep up the good work

Love the into !!! Keep up the good work

Very enjoyable video Ryan thanks

I like it! Me and my brotha have a bigger caterpillar 305c but it's basically the same controller! Love your content

Enjoyed the chopping video and would like to see more like it. We harvest cotton and peanuts on our farm, but we are about 1000 miles away.

I may never use the machine, but loved the peek into how it works.

thanks ryan for the videos

Great to see your videos from this week. I missed my fix since it is not safe to watch while driving, after 2500 miles, I am caught up again. Sadly, I haven't talked my very soon to be wife into a detour to Wisconsin on our way home. Keep up the wonderful work, Ryan.

Could use one of these around my farm for a few days, bet it work great for pulling stumps!👍

Great video

It’s funny how even if I already know how to run a piece of equipment, if I see a HFW video on how to run it I watch anyway😂. Good video!

Liked the intro. I've ran a cat 305.5 they are great.

Great video make more like this!!

Awesome intro!

great vid it makes more sense now

You should do this. Good video

Just subscribed Good stuff to know. Good video.

Cool machine :)

Thank you.

The "Grapple" is actually called a Thumb.

Really cool vid my dad and me watch you when he feeds our cows And i like how you have been editing the beginnings and thumbnails of your videos👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Excelent!

You get to play with the best toys!

Hello you make nice vids

You could come film seed corn harvest in central Minnesota

Looks like it is pretty easy to operate!

Love it when a 1st timer does a how to video, lol.

I absolutely loved this video. Loved the intro since I saw it on Facebook... I also loved the bottle flip fail lol. Good job Ryan P.S Could you add captions to your videos for people who are deaf? I am just asking. Thank you!

Nice vid... neat little excavator. We rented one when I was doing prep work for my parent's new house on the Shiner place about five years ago... handier than sliced bread! They can do a lot of work fast, and I had never operated *any* excavator or even a backhoe before and I managed to pick it up and be working at a fast pace in only an hour or two, so the learning curve was particularly easy... the only thing about it was, those little excavators are pretty limited in their capabilities... for instance, I tried to dig out a stump that the front end loader on the 5610S Ford couldn't push over, dug out around and it managed to pop some of the roots, but try as I might it just didn't have enough beans behind it to actually push the stump over (despite me cutting the tree off about 4 feet high so I'd have more leverage to "roll the stump out" later... and it was only about a foot diameter trunk at the base... not even a "big" stump per-se... Handy for doing basic trenching, but if you're doing serious land clearing, reclamation work, or moving a lot of dirt, a full-size excavator is DEFINITELY the way to go-- something with enough power to really get the job done without overtaxing or pushing anything too hard (or worse yet breaking something). If we were still farming cotton I'd love to have you film, but we quit cotton in the early 2000's... If you want to film cotton farming/harvesting, you'll have to travel a pretty long ways from Wisconsin! There's a little in far southern Kansas and Missouri which is about the closest to you... of course the Texas Panhandle from south of Amarillo, particularly around Lubbock, is "king cotton" country, and interesting because of the differences between irrigated cotton grown under pivots, versus dryland "skip-row" cotton (2 rows planted, 1 row off or "blank", usually). Course there's not as much dryland cotton as it used to be... most is irrigated now. But, they DO make some terrific yields up there most years. There's a lot of "stripper harvested" cotton in that part of the state... as you go down to South Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, etc in the heart of the cotton belt, you get into a lot more "spindle-picked" cotton-- two totally different types of harvesters (stripper cotton is more like ear-corn pickers that gather "everything" cob-n-all, where a cotton picker is more like a corn combine that separates the plant material from the cotton (or grain in a combine). The newest pickers have on-board mini-module builders (Case IH machines) or mega-round bales of seed cotton wrapped in yellow plastic (Deere machines) and can deposit these mini-modules on the end of the field, or in the field "on the go". This of course is interesting technology but IMHO boring to watch... FAR more interesting seeing the "old way" of doing it, with pickers or strippers gathering the cotton out of the field, then "dumping" the cotton out of the basket into module builders on the turning row (field end) where someone spreads and packs the cotton into large bread-loaf looking bricks of cotton called "modules" which are then picked up later by tandem trucks with chain-slat floors... The module builder packs the cotton into a "brick" using it's wedged-shaped sides and a huge hydraulically controlled packer "foot" that moves back and forth and up and down by an operator's control, then when the module is the desired size, a rear door opens upward, the machine is lifted up by hydraulically lowering its transport wheels to raise the machine off the ground (and give clearance between the sloped module builder sides and the module inside) and then the tractor is driven forward to the location where the next module will be built, the wheels are raised to put the machine onto the ground, and the rear door closed to begin making the next module... my sister in law was running a module builder for her Dad and Grandpa's farm when she was just 12 years old... I stopped and watched her building modules, because the technology had *just* started becoming common in our area about that time (well a few years before), replacing the "old, old" way of doing it-- dumping cotton directly into large wagon-type "cotton trailers" similar to really big "hay racks" and then pulling them to the cotton gin to be sucked out and the cotton ginned to remove the seed and press it into bales... (Which is what we did on our farm...) Later! OL J R :)

Ryan being left alone with that seems like a case of " In my defence I was left unsupervised"

Hi Ryan, another great video! Greetings from De Soto Wisconsin. I miss being on the farm so your videos "ease my pain" haha. My favorite hobby on the farm was tractor pulling, hot farm. Do you have any farmers near by that you can video? Just a thought ..

You could come here Finland to watch us chop second crop in august. 😏

Gosh dang it could I come and visit you

Not hardly as good as letsdig but getting better.

Nice vid.Like

Foot pedal adjusts angle of boom in relation to cab allowing you to dig along side a wall or also dig a square hole by changing the angle. Like a grave.

Nice intro

Hey Ryan, awesome video it’s fun to learn to drive and use new things, but what brands of cameras do you have around your yard for security purposes?ive had a lot of break ins around me the last little bit but no one has proof of the vehicle of person doing it.. hope you see this. Thanks for your help!

Great video! Any live streams planned soon?

It would be nice if you personally owned one of these things, they have a lot of good uses.

I will win a hat!! But seriously great video like always can't wait for more!

I find it interesting those small excavators

If you have the use for one of those machines I would get a bit bigger one for yourself. That way you can do a bit heavier work like getting stumps out, it will work with one of those but I prefer a little bigger one for those kind of jobs

It is the same controls for a CAT mini excavator I use mine for landscaping!

We have a wheeled bobcat that uses footpeddles for the loader operation. And we rented a tracked one for manure work that had either footpeddle or joystick mode for loader operation. I tried both and the joystick mode just didn’t feel right to me.

In south-west Norway someone has a self-propelled carrot harvester :D

I bet that is a fun toy to have around. Do you plan on getting one for the farm

You are lucky to get so many experiences like this. Now, let's see some destruction! Unleash the beast!

You should go to the Sunbelt Ag Expo.

Interesting, very expensive for the size. Thanks for the low down.

I work in the wood. Drive both harvester and forwarder. Komatsu 931, komatsu 895 and John deere 1910e. And The joysticks works the same as the excavator

Loggers like to play checkers with their grapplers using a very large game board and stand on ends logs.

Geez, if a dealer dropped off a hoe at my farm for a couple of days it'd be going back with 48hrs on it, lol.

We have been borrowing my uncle's excavator to clean out some ditches. Tried to play the mud splatter challenge with my sister unfortunately I forgot I had the front window open and splattered myself in return she took several of me pouting 😒☹️

Whats better case ih or john deere?

Sorry if I missed it, but whatever happened to that metal silo that started to blow out on you? Was it impossible to save? Thanks as always... great videos.

You could have used it to clean up your fence lines. That is really not big enough for Demolition of Barns.

I ran a backhoe for so many years I can't operate an excavator because it's opposite of a backhoe as far as the controls go. So I always have to switch it over to backhoe mode.

I got my new shirt today (07/23/28) THANKS a lot

the two different types of operating controls are ISO and SAE. you started In SAE then went to ISO.

I halterbreak steers amd heifers for showing if you are intrested.

If I had one of those jobs, I'd have holes dug everywhere. I'b be worse than a groundhog.....LOL

Youre right they are straight forward until you climb up the cab of a grader

All ways wanted to run one

Hey man

It would be nice to have a digger 😄

Did you have to pay to rent that?

Ok, you switched the control option but didn’t show the difference. You just went right into the foot control for swinging the boom. The difference is the reach and boom switches between the left and right controls.

they are starting picking potatoes up here right now i know some people that own big potato farms

Your Bucket grapple is commonly called a "Thumb"

I got potato harvesting lol

would a cat skidsteer count

Hi

My dad has the same excavator but his is a 2015

I love John Deere Farm tractors but for equipment you have to go Caterpillar

Why not use a rototilt on that machine and get the job done in halv the time?

Price of machine

You're welcome to come to Texas and harvest cotton with us

If you do a potato harvest video you may want to do a sugar beet video. How about a cranberry harvest video?

Is that your new intro for every video

I feel like a GoPro would be best for this sort of thing.

Does it have A/C?

How much would it cost to go with full automatic machine control for this?

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A local custom worker can open a bottle of beer and adjuste the volume of a Dewalt heavy duty radio with such a machine .

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Sehr gutes Video. Bitte etwas weniger labbern. Hast du eine Kartoffel in der Schnorrä

Bottle flip is old