roo - 5/14/2022 17:40 My area has several drainage ditches that require maintence to keep flowing good. A big problem is beaver dams. I have a nussence trapper to get rid of them. But the damns are getting to be a real problem. Most areas require a high hoe to reach the bottom of the ditch. Hauling in a big hoe to tear out a damn gets expensive. Most only take a few minutes to remove. So I'm trying to find something that could be hauled on a gooseneck trailer with a 30' stick. I don't think a extend-a- boom backhoe will reach. First off - sorry your trapper is a nuisance . . . . As far as the mini-extend. Know a guy that chained up a 20ft 6x6 I beam on his bucket of his 10,000 lb mini and broke open the dam and wrecked the beavers house. He welded a short flat plated to the end of the beam so he had more push / pull area. It worked pretty good - but didn't get the material moved out of the pond/ditch area. Some of it he could drag toward shore and get with the bucket - but maybe only 30-40% of the dam and hut. Be careful - longer dippers arms make the small machine unstable. This same guy also has a big grapple that he gets out on the dam and hut and uses the mini to pull the cable from shore like a drag line bucket - it's very time consuming . . . . . You could make a longer dipper arm for your mini - if you can weld or have a good repair guy around that could make it ? | 
Long reach mini excavator
