IT seems to me that the trimmer on the mini would be good for clearing poison ivy or briers out of the woods and trees
I don't have a mini excavator but I have thought of building a tree saw for my Kubota HF 191 mid size once I get it running I think if I were to make an extension for the 14 ft boom reach to become 20 ft I could use that to trim back a lot of the overgrown trees on my place. I can't get my Ford 755 Backhoe in paces where the middie would go