Abandoned Property Cleanup! - with Gas Powered Chinese Mini Skid Steer & Excavator 

Craig put the bucket up tilt it forward drop it down and use the back drag method instead of trying to fill bucket

Tilt the bucket forward and pull back use the bucket as a rake. That way you can pull debris back from the foundation without having to get off and do it by hand. Of course you’ll have to do some work cleaning but not as much. Let the sun shine in, cut those big trees down holding all the moisture in there, especially over the roof.

I would recommend spraying out the full yard where nuisance plants are growing with some glyphosate herbicide a few passes to kill off all vegetation. Once a few passes are sprayed give yourself some really high quality sod for ground cover get it super clean and level. Blanket spray permeferin for bugs get some from tractor supply in the concentrate and spray monthly to keep the bugs at bay. Harbor freight has a cheapo backpack sprayer to get started and upgrade to a high quality sprayer later.

Use your thumb on your excavator to grip stuff and pull it out

I love this series

Great to see you are putting those machines to work 👍 definitely back savers for sure! Looking forward to more work videos when you get time. It’s great to see the place getting cleaned up 👍

Maybe try softer bolts, grade 8 is hard, but brittle on shearing. Low grade will bend, not shear off

Looks like the machines worked pretty good. Worth the money.

I'm pretty sure you'd be quicker with a wheel barrow and the shovel. You need to get some seat time on that equipment. Try doing a timelapse and just spend 3 hrs continuous on a machine at a time. Also use the bucket backwards pressing down from the house to pull away, then scoop up

Get one of those battery powered pumps at Harbor Freight (AKA Horrible Fright), it will simplify fueling that skidsteer.

You should go around all the trees with a hand say cutting the ivy at the base of the trees

Go to harbor freight and get you some jeep bumper j hooks and bolt them to the bucket… much stronger just saying from my 45 years of of running equipment

Drop your bucket at a 90 and back up to scrape out

Loved the video can’t wait until the house and shop get done that truck will be cool to get running and that lil motor home be cool to see what in that with full build too

Learn to backblade. It will make your life easier

very impressive and very fun to watch. the property is like my abandoned cow town house. the whole village is a bamboo forest now.

Checkout the ratchet rake for you skid steer. I got one for my tractor bucket. Very much worth it

Be careful tracking up there in the vines you don't want to get them wrapped around the tracks and underneath the machine to be a nightmare but since you got that thumb attachment grip it with the thumb attachment and track yourself back and see what routes will break just start to see if it's kind of pulling down on anything and that's when you'll know how strong the roots are

I'm along for the RIDE ! I Diffently don't envy you, BUT you're doing a darn good job ! ! ! I'd much rather watch Hot Rod Builds, but this is a challenge I want to witness! Newk from Kentucky

Not sure all your viewers are "fellas." Thanks for helping me decide about getting a Chinese excavator.

Looks like a job for some Landscape youtubers like Al Bladez :)

Hey this might be a good idea. Maybe you should move into this place once you get it just about done and you can live at the property 🤷‍♂️

I like it when you work on your car.

That foundation! OUCH!

Harbor freight sells a battery operated fuel transfer pump cheap that will help tremendously fuel those things. I keep several for backups

Flail mower attachment would work great for your situation.

I like the videos but it would be great to see more work less talk

I think the teeth thing would work better if you used a sleeve around the bolt and a nut on the end. Grade 8 bolts have a lot of tension strength but the are brittle when they start to bend.

Why aren't u using the thumb on the bucket?

Teeth for the bucket isnt that mostly for digging? I think a bucket without teeth is a better choice for you for the things that you are doing with it so far.

I'd be extending those drive handles on excavator!! Looks uncomfortable bent over while driving forward/backwards.

Definitely working good for you so far For sure

Man you need Round Up to sponsor you a couple of tankers full of industrial strength!

If you looked up, that was probably soffit that fell off?

Great video again.

How does the travel speed of the mini skid compare to the mini ex? Two times faster? Any speed spec in the manual?

When pullong hard with the mini drop the blade into the dirt. Get a 32 inch muck buck ,it will help alot on this job. Only way to be any good running a machine is to put your butt in the seat and go forth and learn. Proud of the honest truth you speak. Poison Ivy is a diaster for sure.

That left earring. Lmao

have a word with next door about getting rid of all the trees on the property line you never know they may say go for it

Coming along. U'll be drawing attention now I hope u put a deer cam up or something......just saying👍👍

you need a tractor with a claw.

Your wisteria ripper outer is your thumb and bucket.

George, George, George of the jungle, Watch out for that TREE !!. ............ Still thinkin' goats. ... God cover your rear. Still like the can do mentality

Don't forget that you have a thumb on your excavator.

The big thing is they out performed your back and your sanity.

There is a replaceable cutting edge blade that goes on the bottom of the bucket. It fits between the teeth and bucket.

use fire maybe? but i fear it would catch more than wisteria and stuff