How much use could I get out of a weeks worth of using a rented Volvo ECR-88 trac-hoe? I need to clean some underbrush and small trees and put in a culvert. Would I be better off to rent the 450 John Deere dozer? They both cost the same to rent. I know the trac-hoe gives me a little more diversity, but I suspect the dozer would be quicker. Also the dozer is a tad heavier and may do more clearing. What do y'all think?
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Welding man
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- West Virginia
Would be a no brainer for me. Excavators with thumbs and a push blade have just about eliminated small track loaders and dozers in my neck of the woods.You can seperate the wood from the dirt much easier with the thumb, and all the brush will burn. Can't see any way the dozer would be faster.
Bob Bancroft
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I would guess in this case it depends on what you're more comfortable/proficient with.
Otherwise, everything else being equal, the dozer is good for pushing/grading, but the hoe will excel at anything else.
You mention brush, trees, and culvert. Sounds like hoe work to me.
Otherwise, everything else being equal, the dozer is good for pushing/grading, but the hoe will excel at anything else.
You mention brush, trees, and culvert. Sounds like hoe work to me.
Anonymous-0
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Hoe with a thumb if possible. Takes a while to get used to but you can see exactly what you're doing. The bucket teeth can be used as a brush rake and a thumb can pick everything up and put it in nice neat piles. If you've never run a dozer, you could make a real mess in a hurry.
The hoe would be more useful in the right hands. That said... if you've never run a hoe and you have run a dozer, get the dozer as you'll get done with that before you get your hand/eye coordination down on the boom controls. If you've never run either... hire it done.
For the price they charge to rent a machine around here you can hire it done, never mind paying for fuel and your time.
Rod
For the price they charge to rent a machine around here you can hire it done, never mind paying for fuel and your time.
Rod
caterpillar guy
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The excavator is a larger mini excavator. It would be much better for the culvert since you need to put the dirt back over it afterwards. The dozer will dig a sloped ditch that will be hard to back fill the culvert unless it has a 6way blade so you can roll the dirt out with a trough like ditch. Grandpa tried this with some tile and the dirt pushed the tile out the other side when he tried to back fill it. This was over 30 years ago. I vote for the excaVATOR.
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