Great find at the weekend, pretty sure this is the sample material from Afx ‘Children Talking’ and ‘Every Day’ . Wonder where these kids are now #digging #vinyl

After the maintenance, I dug.

A steel pipe end peeked out. Regular readers will not be surprised that this led to half the Nordstream pipeline coming out.

Then I dug out the side of the big barn, because it's bottom log is rotting from being below soil level due to 90 years of soil accumulation. Good practice for digging near buildings. Only hit the roof once

Lots more junk came up, steel, chunks of cancer roofing, wire, wood, roots, rubber, plastic pipe, disintegrating plastic sheet, rocks and lots of bricks.

Then I made a ditch for the water from the roof to run off (there's no gutter) and leveled the area. Needs some more infill at the end, but already much better.

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Sound Explosion: 22 Original Hits Original Stars
K-tel – TC213, TC 213
Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo
Canada
1973
Rock, Pop
Soft Rock

Dangers of hosting a multi-family garage sale—you pick up stuff

Had this one back in the day and totally forgot how flat the music on the album was. I guess they had to compress the life out of it to squeeze 22 Original Hits - Original Stars onto a single LP.

A bit scratchy, clicky, and poppy. #RiceKrispies but given its age, fun. Also a good test for the refreshed #turntable

Now that I've made a road 'round the back, digger can visit the sauna. Think I'll need to take the roof off again to work there, it's quite tight between fence and building. Probably should just leave it off. Keeps getting in the way, although at least once it stopped a branch from smacking me in the teeth.

Mini excavator newbie tip: Excavators aren't all-terrain vehicles, they're make-terrain vehicles.

Don't try to cross very uneven terrain like this former ditch, you'll just tip the thing over. Instead, make a road, then drive across on that.

Neighbours bought an excavator after seeing ours.

Looks like this one: https://auction-baltic.com/en/construction/construction-equipment/mini-excavators/bttl-et12m-6-44471

It's the Briggs & Stratton petrol engine version with a fixed thumb, but no swing boom, which is why it didn't fit our needs.

They want to dig a pond, a greenhouse foundation and also level some bumpy terrain, which it should do fine.

I might come around and take measurements of the thumb :)

Turning over the compost pile is quick & easy!

Ok, the wide bucket is a little large for the wheelbarrow, but it got full anyways!

This simple compost pile worked a lot better than the fancy plastic composter in the garden (came with the property). Just not enough oxygen in that thing.

Sadly the pile was full of dubious materials from the previous owners, so I'm not using it for food growing. I fished out most. Maybe next year.

The Chinese mini excavators have become so popular, even tool importer Scheppach has started selling one: https://www.scheppach.com/de/unternehmen/news/kraftvoll-und-kompakt--mini-bagger-exc815~n584 [German]

This is a very small 560kg one with an unknown petrol engine. It's not the usual Briggs & Stratton XR2100 that all the other petrol versions use.

Minecraft 2.0

Was just raking the firewood storage level while dragging more concrete logs in place when the rake said clank.

A piece of angle iron, stuck under something heavy. Some digging and a 10cm wide I-Beam came up along with some other pieces.

We really should plant spinach. Ought to do well in this iron rich soil.

A strong arm with claws arrived. Small enough to drive into the living room, strong enough to dig holes or lift logs. With extra trenching and sand bucket.

Had some practice digging and then reinstalled the roof, which to my delight fits through the barn door.

Filled the grease gun and gave it some lube as it's been sitting outside all winter.

Only came with an engine manual, none for the machine itself, which is probably against some EU law.

Efficient excavator digging tips from a big boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbcWSUEkz1A

Looks like a ship full of Chinese made mini excavators has docked, everything is back in stock, including one that ticks all my boxes and comes with two extra buckets (trench and wide).

Hope to go look at it soon!

Decided on the Briggs & Stratton XR2100 petrol engine as the Koop 192F (Yanmar 1 cyl air-cooled clone) has too many defects and doesn't like starting in cold weather.

Then the digging can begin.

Garden tilled. The rotavator dug up a brick, a few more concrete chunks, some plastic, a pipe and a massive fucking steel beam. Luckily it seems I didn't break any of the tines. The guard door on the right was bent slightly, but it was easy to unbolt and bang straight again, didn't even chip the paint. Japanese steel won over Soviet steel

Figured out what the feedback lever does, too!

Some tricky driving to get in the corners.

Still looking at mini excavators. New conclusions:

- Cheap KOOP diesels suck, better engines cost much more
- Swing boom almost a must for foundation restoration
- Track speed on most minis is incredibly slow

Given that last fact, I couldn't drive the excavator to the forest to handle some logs or whatever, it would take hours.

So tractor attached is back in the game. Annoying to reposition, but more mobile. Also cheaper.

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