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Walterdavies

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This last week I had two cows killed by dogs or coyotes real shame so I'm looking for a Lama to run them off. I called the insurance and made a great deal om them and they also payed for the Track-Hoe to bury them. We rented one for 8 hours and had a ball doing all kind of things like a ditch though my swampland and cleaning out a pond.
Those little things can really get a lot of work done in a short time and fun to play with also.
Walt
PS sure glad I took out that insurance on the cows.
 
What size did you rent? A full size machine of a miniexcavator? I have a skidloader I am going to sell. Thinking of using the money to buy an excavator to use for a few months then resell. How tough was it to get used to using? I have never run one.
 
Yep there nice little toys and sure wish at times I could affrod to buy one. I remember a few years ago a radoi station need some work done and at the time I was unemployed so I called them and said I would run one for them for $10 and hour. Got the job and told the guy I have never been on one but had been on back hoes etc so I took off with it. Took me about 2 hours to do the work they wanted and the guy just kept trying to find more things for me to do. Ended up working it for 4 hours but they guy payed me for a full 8 said I just worked to fast for my own good
 
Walt,

You sure it wasn't a big cat?

Really doubt if a dog would go thru the fight to kill a cow and I guarantee you it wasn't a coyote.

Any wolves in your country?

Allan
 
That is odd, I'd be looking carefully for signs of what it was, those big cats are something, usually they see or know where you are long before you do.

Excavators are nice, they have replaced a lot of what other equipment was used for like track loaders, only thing is, larger ones are or can be heavy, use care around soft ground, once you bury a big one, you'll need something with a lot of power and traction to get it out if you can't dig it out or use the hoe to pull it out. You probably had a blast, they are fun to operate, and not that hard to learn the way these new ones are built.
 
I was thinking the samething as Allen . Every once in awhile we will get a few dogs chase a calf , 300 lb or less and a coyote will sure get in on something big after the kill but I dont think the dog or coyote would go after a big cow . If it was dogs you have a big pack running around . I ve seen red wolves here loping along behind full size deer . They cant run them down but will stay after them till they are out of gas then makes for a easy kill for them .A cow could nt last long on a run like that .
 
I retired last May, when I was working I spent many thousand hours in track hoes. Smallest one you could haul in a 3/4 ton pickup. Largest a 385 Cat had a 10 yard bucket on it. Over 40 years as an operator I got to play with some really big toys.
 
Never about to argue with Allan just curios about the not a cayote? Why would they not kill
a calf , we find deer they kill pretty offten..

Now the excvator thin have a cat 315l full sized machine and a Kubota kh121-2 can,t say which I use the most but both are two of my top toys.
I can remove a sump that would take a D6 dozer 20 minutes in about 3 minutes with the cat excvator..
 
You best research that lame thing. My friends have 5 lamas and seen a coyote and want it killed. They will attack and kill a full grown lama when very hungry.
 
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