Digging a Septic System With a Mini Excavator: What You Can and Cannot Do Yourself
HomeBlogBest MachinesAboutContact Property Use Digging a Septic System With a Mini Excavator: What You Can and Cannot Do Yourself The digging is the easy part and it is not the part that decides anything. The soil test, the permit and whether your state will even let you install it are the job. Here is where […]
Building and Fixing a Gravel Driveway With a Mini Excavator
HomeBlogBest MachinesAboutContact Property Use Building and Fixing a Gravel Driveway With a Mini Excavator A gravel driveway is a drainage structure that happens to have cars on it. Get the water off it and it lasts for years on very little stone. Get that wrong and no amount of gravel will save you. Updated November […]
Grading and Levelling With a Mini Excavator
HomeBlogBest MachinesAboutContact Property Use Grading and Levelling With a Mini Excavator: What It Can Actually Flatten Digging rewards force. Grading rewards restraint. The bucket does the cutting, the blade does the tidy, and trusting your eye on sloping ground is how you end up doing it twice. Updated November 2026 10 min read By Mini […]
Digging Footings With a Mini Excavator
HomeBlogBest MachinesAboutContact Property Use Digging Footings With a Mini Excavator: What the Machine Can and Cannot Decide The digging is the easy part. The depth, the width and whether it is legal come from your building department and your frost line, not from a website. Updated November 2026 9 min read By Mini Excavator HQ […]
Can a Mini Excavator Pull Stumps and Clear Land?
Root structure matters more than trunk diameter and far more than machine size. Dig, cut, lever, repeat — plus what to do with the pile when you are done.
Will a Mini Excavator Fit in Your Backyard?
The narrowest clear opening sets the largest machine you can own. Then there is the route in, tail swing, what it does to a lawn, and how to protect what you cross.
Can a Mini Excavator Dig a Pond?
Reach sets the shape of the job, soil decides whether it holds water, and the spoil pile is bigger than the hole. Plus the permit question that can cost more than the machine.
Can a Mini Excavator Dig a Trench for Water, Power and Drainage?
The 811 call, how deep it has to go, why narrow wins, getting a drain to fall consistently, and the bedding and backfill that decide whether it lasts.
Buy or Rent a Mini Excavator? The Honest Math
Rental is priced by the day, ownership by the year. Here is how to find the crossing point for your own situation, including the costs neither side puts on the quote.
Mini Excavator Property Projects: What You Can Actually Get Done
The honest list of mini excavator property projects on 10 to 30 acres: drainage, driveways, clearing, trenching, footings, and what to still hire out.