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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

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #Records #KTel #GarageSale #YEGDigs #Music #Turntables #digging

A colorful 1973 K-tel compilation LP titled Sound Explosion: 22 Original Hits Original Stars is playing on a black turntable. The album cover is propped vertically behind the turntable, displaying its iconic rainbow burst design. A Sharp , R2-D2 figurine, and Hawaiian hula dancer sit on a shelf above. Below the turntable are record cleaning supplies.

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.

#Digging #MiniExcavator #Excavator #Homestead #DIY

A small, yellow mini-excavator lurks in the bushes between a log sauna and an outhouse. It's driven in between two large trees in the back. A fence gate is open towards the front, just wide enough for the digger but with no space to turn. A cheap solar lamp is stuck on a fence post. A large slab of rock rests in front of the sauna door.

Digging deeper on Royals opponent quality https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/39022/ #Baseball #deeper #digging #FrontPage #HokTalk #Kansas #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #MLB #on #opponent #quality #review #royals #RoyalsAnalysisSabermetricsStats

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.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Construction #Digging #DIY #Homestead

Extension of a path mowed through a meadow. Where there previosuly was uneven terrain and a deep ditch filled with gardening waste, there is now a relatively level area filled with leveled soil. Excavator tracks crisscross the filled area, compacting it.

Digging into Pope Leo XIV’s New Orleans Creole roots

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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 :)

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Digging #Tools #Machinery

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.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Digging #Compost #Homestead

A yellow and black mini excavator with a wide, toothless grading bucket has turned over a large compost pile near a forest. Fresh compost is exposed and dumped into a wheelbarrow standing aside, somewhat spilling over.

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.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Digging #Scheppach

Minecraft 2.0

#Minecraft #Homestead #Digging #DIY #Tools #Pickaxe #Shovel

A shovel and a pickaxe laying on the earth. Also some pliers a chain and a shackle. There's some weeds and part of a fence behind.

I, too, constantly experience the masculine urge to burrow.

https://youtu.be/5iQ8dpu-W4k

#gaming #youtube #digging #holes

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.

#Steel #Treasure #Homestead #Digging

A prybar, lifting up a steel I-beam that is still partially buried and covered in soil. Freshly dug soil is spread around and an old rake lies on the ground behind. Part of a tractor trailer tyre is visible further into the grass.

A pile of freshly excavated steel scrap. A relatively straight angle iron, one bent or welded into a U-shape, a large pipe filled with soil and an I-beam almost 1m long.

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.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Digging #Homestead

A yellow and grey tracked mini excavator from China. It's got a small dozer blade at the front and the arm has a digging bucket with teeth fitted. There's a seat with armrests and hydraulic joysticks, levers and pedals in front. The tracks are made from rubber and a red arrow points to where forward is (because the top can spin around and also face the other way). On the ground is a detached steel roll bar and sun roof and partially obscured by it, a wide sand bucket and a narrow trenching bucket.

The same digger, now occupied by an old man wearing camo pants, a fleece jacket, a stinky hat and red xmas socks inside plastic clogs. He's got a dumb look on his face which means he's concentrating on what he's doing, which is digging a hole and moving some concrete chunks around in it with the mini excavator. The dozer blade is pushed too far down, fucking up the ground, but he's not noticed that yet. A barn with some tall trees completes the background.

Efficient excavator digging tips from a big boy:

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

#Excavator #Digging

#Husky #snuffling and #digging action!

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.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Digging

A 1 ton mini excavator doing its thing, that is shoveling dirt from one place to another. It's yellow and the photo is at a weird angle for some reason.

Photo borrowed from seller website.

Obsessively detailed spreadsheet with information (as far as available) of many mini excavators and a few tractor attached backhoes. On the bottom is a consideration list, which reads:

Considerations!

Speed: Excavator too slow to drive into forest, but do I need to?
Width: Under 1050mm can drive into house for digging floors, Tractor is 1180mm (1080mm with wheels off)
Swing Boom/Side Shift/Support Legs: To dig along house foundations, Excavator needs swing boom, Backhoe needs side shift and narrow legs.
Wide bucket does not work for digging.
Engine: Koop engine is bad but not super bad? Kubota/Yanmar too pricey. B&S Petrol ok. PTO good but a lot relies on tractor SPOF.
Push Blade (Excavator): Good for closing ditch. Surprisingly useless for grading/leveling because small machine too unstable.
Depth: For foundation and trenching, 1.3m desirable
Thumb: Very useful for lifting stones/logs. Does not need to be hydraulic.
Cab: Roof is ok (and easy to detach). Full cab is just going to be in the way and waste of money.

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.

#Homestead #Tractor #Rotavator #Garden #Soil #Digging #DIY

A bunch of things the rotavator revealed, including a pipe, a bit of plastic on the left and a big steel C-beam covered in soil. The rear of a blue tractor with rotavator is visible in the freshly tilled field behind.

The tilled garden/field, with neat rows on the right where there was nothing in the way and somewhat less tidy at an angle on the left where there was a fence and a big tree with large roots. The soil looks dark and fertile.

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.

#Excavator #MiniExcavator #Digging #Homestead