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Originally Posted by KC911
I've never used anything like that...I figured that was the answer...I'll see who rents them locally. How efficient....with a noob...can I scoop up say 50' of driveway in a few hours....or daze....if I'm lazee? I'd have to rent a trailer too...
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They aren't bad to get the hang of. A lot of track machines have joystick controls today so if you haven't spent much time on any one particular machine, the learning curve isn't bad. Left hand does all the steering, right hand does all the boom and bucket functions. Bobcat standard controls are lever steer, left foot boom up/down, right foot bucket tilt/curl. Case has hand controls. Levers move you forward/back, left/right, left hand does boom up/down. right hand does bucket tilt/curl. None are hard to figure out once you start operating them.
With the T750 I have here, I could do 50 feet in about 30 minutes if all I'm doing is cutting and dumping into a trailer or different location. But I also have an eight foot wide bucket on the machine. You'll probably rent something in the 60 hp range and that'll still get the job done quickly once you get the hang of it. Ask the rental person to show you how to use float. It'll keep you from cutting too deep as if the driveway has any dips in it.