The Day I Flipped My Mini Skid 

Glad you posted this incident, this can happen with any machine that has a bucket and is easier to tip with articulating machines all the way up to large loaders. Good training video. Glad you were not injured!

Ran these little guy's on plenty of jobsites, hauling around 24" & 36" box tree's up & around some treacherous terrain & have never even felt like I was going to tip the machine. Work smart & operate with caution. Human error here, your bucket was loaded, lifted & you went over the mount of dirt with one track. Lessons learned here.

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I tipped our Ditch Witch SK850 a few years ago. It's not necessarily the grade that gets them, its getting them cockeyed or off camber and all it takes is a little rocking or shifting of weight to one side too much. Good on you to call the dealer. We didn't call the dealer, it smoked a bit, but was fine once that was burnt off.

Life is a learning experience. Glad your machine is all good again. Happy digging. 👍

Sorry to see that it happened but glade to see your ok and sharing this with us.

Sorry to hear that happened man! This might be a little long winded but as helpful as mini skids are I think they are one of the worst things for the industry also. They make the barrier to entry easier for people and they are so much easier to tip than a bigger machine. My sk 600 got tipped over by a friend that was using it. Every picture or video I’ve seen of one tipped the loader arms were raised up. Having them down would save a lot of accidents but they are just dangerous in general. The only good thing is your not stuck for the ride you can get off it. Glad you’re okay and the machine is good to go. I think you could have done the service yourself and saved the time to get it to the dealer and paying them to do the work. It’s pretty easy but I understand the peace of mind. Stay safe!

I had same problem a few years ago. It was SK750. It laid on its side for a few hours before I put it back on its feet 😅. Couldn’t start the engine, couse oil got into the cylinders and engine got seized. All I did, I unscrewed glow plugs and cranked the engine for a minute to get rid of oil from cylinders. Put glow plugs back and started the engine. It produced smoke for 15 minutes until oil leftovers were burned out. Added some oil to the engine and never had any problems since.

I just tipped mine. Luckily I have a 12 ton winch to move it around. Great video!

I was thinking about using one of those on my property but have realized now that it's to steep. I wondered if you can widen the track on this model. Thanks for covering that issue so thoroughly.

Sorry you had to go thru this. But I’m glad you & your nearly-new mini-skid were not damaged. Taking time to make a video of the painful experience for the benefit of others…undoubtedly prevented someone else from inadvertently doing the same thing.

That’s unfortunate. Had I tipped over that Bobcat I rented to redo that lawn, I would have been screwed. I honestly didn’t even give it a second of thought. Thankfully, that didn’t happen. I totally agree, take it to the dealer. Better safe than sorry.

I've used that brand before and I have had it on all sorts of angles. Never had it tip over. You have to take it slow and feel what the machine is doing. Not sure what you were doing when yours went over. I've used all brands of that style of machine.

At least you were safe and learned some good lessons

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Glad you are ok, but honestly that's why I would go with the wider tracks. I am not saying that you made a bad choice or wider tracks solve all the problems, but for me it just seems would help somewhat. Stay safe brother, god bless!

I just tipped a Kubota scl 1000 2 days ago im glad you walked so i could run

Sounds like two hours of labor, did they replace filters? Did they break down what they did?

Yes I flipped my 600 about a year ago and I didn’t wait long enough before starting and you guess it I bent a rod 😩

Keep a Farm Jack in your trunk on skid days y'all

Dude excellent video and what I like about you took it so well..

Determination right here. This could very well happen again hopefully you'll be safe if it does not get hurt but I think you should invest the amount of time you spent on loading this thing into learning how to service it yourself if a shop's only charge you 400 bucks that means it doesn't take a lot of time. Figure out what you need to do so in the future it will only take you a couple hours to get your machine started again good luck. Keep operating!

Been there done that. We just have to be careful.

Sorry that happened man that sucks. I really like your bucket though and don't like mine at all. what's the brand of the bucket you have?

Operator error unfortunately evey machine has it's limitations keep bucket as low to the ground as possible when tramming and digging & never load trailer on uneven or unstable ground

Tip when you feel it start to tip drop that bucket

Things happen. So, did you call the dealer?

if you feel it get tippy, slam that bucket down. Its a life saver. Watching your video... You had the bucket way too high while not on flat ground. Was this a test of stability? Otherwise I have no clue of what you were trying to do at the time of your rollover

When you brought the narrow track and explained to them your plans. That’s when they knew you were going to tip it.

Bro you need plywood on the ramps spray wd40 will slide easy easy I have done that with a bobcat t300.

Simple is as simple does

Yes better b safe than sorry.

Should of got a ditch witch bro!

Put a winch in that trailer bro!

Been shopping for a mini for some weeks and with all attachments looking at 60k for a vermeer or ditch witch or mt1000. This is why im changing my mind and deciding to just rent. I think these are money pits

Lesson learned...

Tommy from Vermeer. Ask him about the potato launcher from the tree guy.

I'll bet you 20 dollars 💸 to ah donut 🍩 you won't flip it again

Not sure about these little minis.. they are handy but they tip way too easily when your aren’t even doing anything sketchy.

U could of run right away if it wasn't running on its side. The dealer stole ur money!!

I've done it 5 times with 3000 hours on many machine's

Dealer says don't turn the machine on...I turned the machine on..

Bucket was clearly to high

i bet it would of started right up 4 hrs latter. u just need to let fluids settle. if its warm that does not take long. next time give it 4-24 hrs check fluids start it up and get back to work... dealers want ur $$$ and want to waste your time, seriously not even a service tech to come out? AS LONG AS YOU DON'T RUNT THE MOTOR WHEN ITS FLIPPED OVER. u should be fine. flipped may machines lol

4 men couldn't flip it back over?

Never buy anything like that at Harbor freight Lesson #2

Don't care what excuse you use, I have running a Toro mini for 22 years...never tipped. Human Error. You have to be smarter than the machine!!!!!

Yeah man always call a tow truck it’s what I do or I use my tilt trailer with a winch . You live and learn lol