Toro Dingo

redwood

Have any of you ever owned or rented a Toro Dingo for deck footings.

What was your experience?

Thanks

Mark

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neolitic

Talk to BoneSaw.

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Danno6102

They are the bomb! I will rent one for every fence or deck job I do.

Stone Mountain

We had a demo on one last year. It was actually a Vermeer, which was much the same thing. It's neat toy. However, here in Toronto there are literally dozens of companies hiring themselves out to dig holes. Phone 'em up, they come dig, some even clean up the dirt, no muss, no fuss.

I came across another machine by Vermeer. It's a vaccum hole digger.
It costs about double, but does not need a trailer as it's self contained.
It projects a high speed water jet that will dig through almost anything, doesn't break gas lines, and then sucks up the sludge into a holding tank, which you then take somewhere and empty off site.
It can be operated by one man.

I can lease one for about $1100 a month, while a Dingo is $700.
Food for thought.

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neolitic

Who do you rent from?
Haven't found one here,
course I haven't called every
number in the book.... yet.

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Danno6102

A little mom & pop rental shop in Greenfield. It's on my way to most jobs as I live out in Rush county! $200 a day with bucket & augers. If you say you'll be done with it Saturday, but can't make it back before they close, they'll give you Sunday free. The hour meter is broke so what they don't know don't hurt 'em I'm surprised you haven't found any in Indy.

Bone Saw

shoot, I would just buy one now, there are a ton of them for sale, ebay, iron planet, local rental fleet turn around. I use to have a 3hp upright 1 man and a 5.5hp lb both with 10" bits, the lb was the workhorse, but there were times that I would rent, and pickup and dropoff was always a race for time, there are litterally endless use for one as deck guys and it's like having free employees, best tool purchase without a doubt. with a good mini skid, demo hammer and extra/spare carbide teeth at the ready, there's nothing stopping you. far as the dingo, its a solid machine , i believe it has 4 wheel indipentent hydraulic motors as opposed to 2 and a chain drive.

redwood

Bonesaw,

With a budget, which model would you get? How are they on slopes? I'm looking for a rig that drills 12" x 5' footings?

Thanks

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Bone Saw

well I like the wheeled models over the tracked models for size, weight, maintainance and cost. the kangas and my favorite the boxer brute tend to cost a little more than the dingos, finn eagles, vermeers. If you hunt around you shouldn't have a problem finding a decent one for between 4-7k with the auger head, bucket and a bit or two. depending on the terrain, approaching the hole in a traverse manner (not inline with incline) and having the auger head gimbal on 2 axis will help getting neatly placed holes, there are sometimes that I will have to chock the wheels so the machine is not drifting down hill. a machine that has all drive control on one side and all bucket/aux controls on the other (mt's ditchwich) is a little easier to get use to as opposed to boxers and kangas and I tink dingos (not sure) where the drive is split and the boom/crowd is split, takes a little more finness and getting use to, but have better travel speed
you're gonna need an extension for that depth
Im' getting a pair of collers made up at a machine shop (will resemble a ring gear with a ratchet/paw profile and an opposing sleeve with the same) that one will weld on to the head and the other on the shaft with an elongated pin hole to allow play on the rotation axis, i wanna turn it into a big hammerdrill