You Haven't seen a Mini Excavator Trailer Hitch Like this (100% custom) 

Nicely done Sandy. Your right, get out and do it. Have a great day!

Next thing you know the channel name changes to "Sandy's Fabrication Shop". You did a great job with that hitch mount.

When you are working on the blade or the back end of your carriage it's much easier to turn the house sideways. It's easy for me to say after 50 yrs. as an equipment mechanic. You're learning and will soon learn the shortcuts. Great videos.

""WOW"" Nicely done Sandy.... Mike M.

Looks good. Should work just fine.

Another design and build on the fly. It pays to keep scrap metal around. I am sure you will be doing a little tweaking as situation dictates. Well done.

Good afternoon Sandy good job with the hitch that was well thought out and this way you can take the lig splitter with the mini excavator and not have to bring more than one equipment at the fire wood yard and I know you will find other things to pull with that new hitch have a great day

I like your idea Sandy this is another one of those things that's going to make your life easier. Looks like you did a great job on that. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome build. Now can add a winch and many more option. A Carry all platform would be handy for some uses. Need a quick couple bucket so you could added a grapple .

Nice welding and fabrication job on the mini x, great Video.

Great job Sandy , very creative.

Well done. Nice finished project. One more off the ever expanding list.

You could tow a trailer with your Quad on it for those days you leave the excavator on the job site. You could even tow your log trailer as stout as to built the hitch. Nice job. 😊

Great advice and another great invention there mate !!!!!! Awesome job !!!!!

Good morning Sandy That was a great fabrication job. That’s going to be a great little add on tool for you. Thanks for sharing with us. As always stay safe and always be kind Cheers

Overbuilt for need. I approve. I would use pins and a locking pin to attach it instead of bolts though. Good vid. Thanks.

Sandy, you never fail to amaze me with your ingenuity! A very nice, well thought out fabrication job. All you need now is a Mig welder and you're set! Great Job!!

Although I haven’t had to move a trailer with my Kubota KX040 … I do wish there was some way I could pick up a custom storage box with the blade so I can carry some gear to my work site!! SEE!!! It always pays to keep every scrap of steel and wood!! You never know when you can save yourself a trip to the store! I haven’t run a bead of weld in 18 years 😬 … is it like riding a bike?? You needed missus sawing with Sandy in there for an extra set of hands! Nice job with the ticky-tacky there bud! That thing will pull a wood splitter to the moon and back. Cheers ☕️

Great job! Awesome idea !! You need some gussets on the left and right side…..could even just be 2 pieces of the square tube cut with a 45 on both ends (take a speed square, line it up so the long side (hypotenuse) is along the edge (not the end) of your square tube , with the end of the long side at the end of your tube, trace the short side of your square across the tube face, now you need a matching line matching the other shirt side of your speed squat from the end of the first line back to the reference edge of your tube. Now you have a 45, 45, 90 triangle dawn on one face of your tube. Cut through on the lines and you have a perfect gusset. Flip your speed square and draw 1 more Line and you have a pair of gussets. Fit them to your tubes where they from the 90 so that all the open faces of what was tube stock before you cut will be covered and sealed with the welds. You probably have ti grind off the tips of the 90 degree points to fit around your previous weld. This will make sure that you don’t get fatigue cracks and then rip off the receiver tube halfway between your sheds and the wood pile because that would just be a sad day. And you know it will happen on a chilly muddy day with a good wind going just to put the cherry on top. Love your solutioning of things.

Looking good, everything thing is coming together nicely. You are going to have a good organized operation. 👍

Nice. Mounting to the side holes on the blade sparks some ideas for a land plane build I am planning on. Thanks.

MM77 Approved 👍🏻👍🏻…………………………………You can pull your (empty)logging trailer with that. It should come in handy!!

Nicely done my friend.

Fabricating with Sandy! I like it 😜 great video my friend cheers. 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦

👍👍👍💙💛❤Un lucru bine facut. FELICITARI SANDY.💙💛❤👍👍👍🍀🍀🍀

That’s a fabulous job Sandy, it’s fun to fabricate with metal I find it a break from doing wood stuff. Can’t wait to see it in action. Nice work

Great looking fab work

Nice job! McGyver strikes again.

😀Good Work Mr. Sandy.

Great Job! High Fives Glad you didn't weld on the blade 🤠

That’s a nice setup. Looking forward to seeing it in action.

Sandy.... good job. Regards from JB, from Zeeland, Denmark.

You did a great job.

Maybe weld tabs on the side of the blade to rest the hitch in while your mounting it 👊👍💪It's nice when you have equipment and skills to do stuff like that. 👊

The cows and the pigs recognise the hand that feed them. The tractor re-condition worked out great. Nice video of the final fixes and start up. Rebuilding the heart of the farm and ready for the spring chores. This comment was meant for a farming channel but u-tube and the Universe decided otherwise. Nice build on the attachment.

Looks like it should work fine,.....now for the test run.

Great stuff Sandy. What about a permanent stud at one end, then a single bolt/locking pin at the other. Easy 1 man operation for assembly then.

Those dings dents and scratches are character/battle scars lol

nice build. how about building a bunk trailer so you can use it with the mini-ex to load, forward, and deck logs at your log landings. i know it's kinda redundant with the log-loader-trailer, but a good demo project. could use log tongs hung from the back of the bucket in place of a grapple. with this setup the bucket would function as a heal rack. cheers

Well thought out design made a great time saver with the hitch without compromising the function of the mini excavator great job

Hilly Billy Engineering at it's best!!!

That was a great idea Sandy, I’m sure it’s gonna do the job! Looking forward to seeing it in action! ✌🏼❤️🙏🏼

Nice job...it's great that you are filming in 4k - good camera angles! Thanks Sandy. I love to figure out things and then build it in my own shop as well. There is nothing more satisfying than a project figured out in your head and then actually built successfully!!

I am thinking one of your next projects should be an addition to your work building, looking crowded.

Love your vids Sandy. Thanks for sharing your real life experience and tips in a down to earth, human way. Got my first sawmill on order, can't wait to get it! Sorry if it's already been answered, what gear are you using to shoot your videos? Your video production is great, you're a man of many talents!

During my welding education at the Community College, I used a similar auto-darkening helmet to yours and began my arc with a stabbing motion, which resulted in significant sticking issues. However, everything changed when I accidentally left my helmet at home one day and had to borrow an old, inexpensive one from the tool room. This experience taught me that my auto helmet was fostering poor welding techniques. By switching to a fixed-shade helmet, I had to scratch the rod to initiate the arc and move it quickly to where I intended to begin welding, which was now illuminated. The result was fewer sticking problems. My advice to you: I recommend acquiring a fixed-shade helmet and mastering the scratch-start technique for initiating your arc.

Hi Sandy!!😀😀 Nice job!! It should work good. Take care buddy!!😀😀💚💚 Logger Al

Ingenious Sandy! Should work well for you. Say, did you not have room in the shop to rotate the turret 90 degrees to give you room to work?

Great job. I been wanting to do something like this with my mini for a while. If you would take a little advice, you need a welding booth and a steal welding table. One little smoldering spark around all the wood in your shop, and it's gone in the night, hours later. Cheers !!

Very cool project! Well done! I saw another youtuber do something along those lines a couple years back and I've had that rolling in my head for a while. It would be very handy to lug around a dump trailer to move some dirt around without having to do a lot of back and forth with the mini or the tractor. Poor man's dump truck with digger tag along!

Awesome fabricating skills bro...That little cleat on the bottom of the support to keep it from rising up was great thinking! So satisfying to make stuff work the way you want it to! 👍

Good fabrication job. Looks solid. Does the splitter have a swivel hitch such that if the splitter twists 30 degrees relative to the mini-exc it will be able to twist the hitch bar? This will be important since neither vehicle has any suspension to help keep them level, only the tire pressure of the splitter.

good video and job. as good or better than i would have done. take care, be safe and well.

That’s cool but I have mine on the back of the bucket so I move it with the swigging I don’t have to mass up the grass much but I’m down south where we don’t get the snow fall if it snows here we don’t work till it’s gone is not long most of the time .God Bless y’all and stay warm 😅

Good job ☺☺ I thought when you went to mount it after the primer that it shrunk or the paint was too thick 😁😁 Remember the Red Green motto if the women don't find you handsome hope they find you handy 😆😆

If you bolt the side plates on first, then tac-weld the bar in between, you’ll be guaranteed a perfect fit. Not a big deal on this project but a tip for future ones. Great job nonetheless!

Hi Sandy. The hitch looks great. It appears that you put some thought into it before you began the build. Would you by chance have a piece off all thread around the shop? I think it is the first time for me seeing how large the shop really is. Have good days!

Portland cement will white the oil stains on your shop floor when weather warms up

Just curious what you think you’re capable of pulling around weight wise? Is 2000 pounds out of the question?

I was kind of thing of a drop hitch where the hitch would hook over blade and hang down or possibly slide on with top and bottom clips ( c ) the wood splitter technically not all that heavy

I was just tinkering with da same idea

Nice work with there of been any way to put a plate and the receiver up on the bottom of the counterweight? Just a thought

Nice project. I do have to correct you on your comment about nobody being born knowing everything. I have a cousin who has an engineering degree. 1 of his fellow engineers once said about him, 5 minutes after he saw something for the first time, he was the world's greatest expert. But I am sure that you never knew him, so it probably doesn't count. LOL

Good morning, Sandy! It is a better idea for attaching the hitch, I like it. It is supposed to be 14C today, or is it just an April Fools day prank? Greetings from Peterborough.

How much power do you have at the shop? Being a electrician I always ask when folks have shops in what looks like the middle of no where.

why not attach it to the other end and leave the blade end alone?

Maybe something to improve your design! Where your putting your bolts threw on the outside of each end of your trailer hitch Weld on nuts and I would only put a quarter inch weld on both sides of the nut as if it ever gets damaged then you could take a zip cut and cut it off and replace it! then put your bolt thew in the inside of your blade and tighten it up a ratchet would be the best tool I would go bigger with your bolts and you may have to use a washer so the bolt doesn't pass threw the hole in the blade when you take it apart just screw your bolts threw the hitch! They will always be their! This way your not fumbling with two wrenches to assemble the hitch to the frame. Looks like from the video you could go with a one inch bolt? When it is assembled cut off both ends of the bolts sticking threw the welded nuts so that your not having excess bolt sticking threw. Would make for a quicker assemble time putting on the hitch!

If you had spun the ex around it would have given you better access to the blade.

Not just a pretty face!

they are not pretty lol