By trade

Agriculture

An excavator on a farm is not used every day — but it does what the tractor does not. It pays for itself through the number of tools it carries, not through its hours.

This trade also covers: drainage, ditch maintenance, cleaning out, stump pulling, maintenance of hedgerows, land clearing, farm development, contract work.

The essentials

Common classes: 2 to 10 t
Use: Seasonal, versatile
Constraint no. 1: Versatility
Auxiliary line: Essential

The typical machine class →

01 The trade

What this trade demands of the tooling

On a farm, the excavator is rarely the main machine.
It comes out for drainage in autumn, ditches in winter, hedges before nesting, stumps and improvements when there is a window. Every outing calls for a different tool.

The calculation is not the same as in civil engineering. A civil engineering firm writes a tool off over hundreds of hours; a farm writes it off against what it stops having done for it.
The question is not “how many hours”, it is “how many jobs am I no longer putting out to contract” — and the threshold is soon reached.

Freshly profiled drainage ditch along a cultivated field, excavator standing idle — A ditch running along the field, profiled in one pass. **What counts here is regularity over hundreds of metres**, not speed.
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A ditch is profiled in a single pass, without going back over the field.
On a farm, the excavator pays for itself through the tools it carries.
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A farm tractor fitted with a front loader lifting a round bale of straw in a farmyard, in front of a stone building and stored bales. — The farm's machine already does a great deal, and that is the starting point.
**The question is not to replace it**, but to know what the excavator does that it will never do:
digging straight, reaching far, and working plumb over a ditch.
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02 The tools

The tools that matter, season by season

Drainage and ditches The trapezoidal bucket gives the V section in a single pass, over hundreds of metres and without going back over it.
The ditching bucket picks up a filled-in ditch again, the trencher lays a drain without opening wide.
Hedges and hedgerows The saw trimmer cuts clean — on a hedgerow you want to keep, that is what makes it grow again.
The rotary mulcher deals with the bank and the scrub, and leaves everything on the ground.
Land clearing and stumps The forestry rake sorts the stumps and lets the soil through.
The handling thumb grips them without the need for a grapple, and the screw splitter opens the wood where it has fallen.
Improvements The auger for stakes and fixings, thepile driver for fences and structures — including solar ones, more and more frequent on farms.
Getting value from the soil The star screening bucket handles damp soil and compost without clogging — which ordinary screens cannot do in season.
The stones in the field Thestone windrower lines them up, the stone picker takes them away, thestone and clod separator sorts the fine soil, and the stone crusher reduces them on the spot.
These machines are hitched to the tractor, not to the excavator.

It is the trade where the quick coupler is justified fastest, despite the small number of hours. Because tools are changed at every outing, often alone, and often in the mud. See the hitching technologies.

03 Check

What is checked before fitting out

The auxiliary line and its flow Saw trimmer, rotary mulcher, trencher and screener all depend on it. See the 7 criteria.
The ditch profile imposed On a drainage scheme or a grant-aided work, the section is often prescribed.
It designates the bucket before you do.
The permitted periods Hedge maintenance is governed by set periods.
That does not change the tool, but it changes the write-off timetable.
The carrier:
excavator or tractor? Some of these jobs are also done with a tractor.
We will tell you when that is the case — we do not sell an excavator tool to someone who does not need one.

Have your machine checked.

Give us your excavator and the work you do in the year, including what you put out to contract today.
It is generally the list of what you put out to contract that designates the right tool.

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Other trades

By machine

Understanding

By trade

The same tool is not chosen in the same way depending on who fits it, and on what is around it.

The 12 trades

Agriculture You are here. Drainage, ditches, hedges, land clearing, handling.
Pipelayer and services Opening narrow, laying heavy, closing clean.
Quarries and rock Blasting out, picking up, loading a material that wears everything.
Local authorities and roads Roads, green spaces, winter maintenance, weed control.
Demolition and recycling Bringing down, separating the materials, crushing on the spot.
Railways The tool is the simple part; access to the track is not.
Special foundations Driving, boring, supporting — before anything comes out of the ground.
Forestry and silviculture Mulching, felling, extracting, stump grinding, restoring.
Hire companies A tool that goes on several machines earns; a dedicated tool sleeps.
Landscaper Getting in without damage, working the soil, maintaining.
Recycling and waste Sorting, gripping, separating, recovering on the spot.
Civil engineering and roads Opening, laying, closing, and giving the road back in good order.

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We tell you what fits on it — and what does not.

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