Digger porn!

Same size as the one that has done a couple of days work at my place and eclipsed my 3 weeks of manual effort.

I have been lifting identical buckets, claws & thumbs to those around all too frequently.

500kg + of steel scrap removed from the first pass over only half of what was once a lawned area and loads more coming to light every day, a large swimming pool (was a duck pond) now filled with concrete bases of steel & concrete posts dragged out of the groundmostly by hand,15m3 of tightly packed wooden waste, tree stumps, branches etc carted away and not even 5% cleared, a similar volume of rotted & decomposed firewood. Mountains of plastic waste & bottles.

The pond had been filled with 10 years plus of decomposing sacks of domestic rubbish all of which had to be seperated into all the various categories by hand before the déchetterie would accept it. I keep finding other piles of rubbish as the brambles are being cleared.

I'm thinking we could start a thread about the mountains of stuff we've (some of us) have discovered and cleared from our newly acquired palaces here in France. I was told that people mostly buried their non-burnable rubbish when there were no deschetteries. I found loads of old tin alarm clocks dumped in the grounds of my first place. Hundreds of tin cans and cider bottles were piled up under the kitchen window, and while I was clearing brambles I stumbled into a hole. Not so much a hole, but the open window of a 2cv that had been buried on its side. I later met another Brit that had also found a buried 2cv in his patch as well, sadly not enough between the two to build a runner.

Bones! I forgot all about the bones!

Its like a dinasour graveyard, there was nearly as much volume of bones as concrete, they had been slaughtering hunt kill and cattle to feed the pack of hunt dogs they were breeding, it would appear from the dog skulls &jawbones with teeth, barbaric neckchains (which really upset me) with a hand stamped dog tag of the owner and his old pre geographic phone number amongst the remains that when a dog died it was cannibalised by the others.

I would call that a "mini digger". A bobcat is a totally different machine..

mmm. I would agree that your digger is made by Bobcat. I would go as far to say that it is a model 320. There are two give aways: the main arm is typical of early Bobcat design (and I am afraid a weakness of theirs, so be careful not to force the weight of the machine onto a dig as much as possible) The second is that there is a remnant of the side flash that has the Bobcat orange as well as the rear shows a flash of Bobcat orange...

The real decider would be what is stamped on the existing machine plate

On the other hand, yes, a Bobcat is generically known for the versatile rear pivoted front loader and what you have is generically known as a mini digger (mini pele in Fr) but Bobcat does make mini diggers.

Diplomatically solved