Using an Excavator on Your Farm

Excavators have long been used on construction sites for a variety of purposes, but they’re primarily used for digging into the earth and clearing away debris. However, this doesn’t mean that the only place you can use an excavator is on a construction site! In fact, many farmers have begun to employ excavators in their agricultural operations to great effect, using them for all kinds of tasks to save time and be more productive.

Curious to know more? Upstate Equipment in Lockport is proud to be your New York excavator dealer, serving Buffalo and Amherst, NY. Here are some of the many ways you can use an excavator to get work done on your farm more quickly.

Lifting

You can use an excavator to lift heavy items, which makes these machines really great for a lot of farming tasks. For example, maybe you’ve got a lot of heavy bags of fertilizer up in storage that would be a real challenge to get down by hand. Use your excavator to move them to the field instead! Stack up bales of hay, even if your hay storage space is somewhat confined. Deliver feed to your livestock quickly and easily. Move empty seed into a hopper. Whatever it is you have to haul or lift on your farm, an excavator can make the work much easier to complete. 

Digging

Excavators are great for digging projects, since that’s what they’re designed to do. You may be surprised at just how much you can employ an excavator to do various digging tasks on your farm. Use your machine to create and maintain ditches for irrigation purposes, clear sites to make way for the construction of sheds and barns and digging trenches. 

Additional Projects

But those aren’t the only two ways you can use an excavator on your farm. You can also use these heavy machines with a variety of different attachments that make them more specialized to different jobs. Some of those jobs include building a fence, clearing away weeds, mulching leaves and grass and clearing land to make way for crops or livestock grazing. Imagine what more you can do!

As you can see, there are a number of ways you can use an excavator to help you with all of your farming tasks. Want to check out some excavators for sale in New York? Stop by our dealership location in Lockport, NY, today to view our current stock of new and used excavators for sale. You can even discuss financing options with our friendly sales team. Upstate Equipment proudly servers the cities of Amherst and Buffalo, NY.