Dometastic

Unfortunately our excavator purchase seems to have NOT been the best decision. It is fixed and running better than before with new filters and an oil change (not to mention the 3 new hydraulic hoses) but it has turned out to be SLOW and not able to dig out the stumps in the below photo. Mr. Dometastic is sad. He did not have a glorious big boy sand box experience. The latest theory is the hydraulics that give the bucket digging power are leaking when it has to really work and letting the fluid leak around the piston instead of giving it full power. What this means is it operates like a geriatric WWF wrestler. I googled "geriatric wrestler" and found this image of Mae Young an actual wrestler!  The excavator just STOPS when it hits a 4 inch tree root so our stumps are its downfall. It runs and functions like an excavator until the going gets hard and then it just doesn't move. We could live with more hoses going in the future but it is unfortunately not near...

The long awaited arrival has happened. Mr. Dometastic finally gets to fulfill his childhood dreams of sandbox glory. Without any further delay here is a photo of our Case 880B Excavator! Don't buy it? Ok, here is the real picture but I do have an urge to attach 2 volleyballs to the bucket and paint little black circles so it can be just like the steam shovel. Mr. Dometastic isn't impressed with my idea. Be honest with yourself. If you had an old rusty excavator like ours wouldn't you do the same? I can't be the only one! There have been many stumbling blocks along the way but we were able to break ground. Unfortunately it has been a week and we aren't much farther than this photo. We managed to get the track fixed and it looks great. Although, now that it looks so good the other side that used to be the good side looks like it needs help. Its the snowballing effect that happens when you decide to fix or renovate something that is in pretty bad sha...