Whats your multione loader doing today ?

[Mick Dempsey]

Thing is with diggers is that they are so cheap to rent.

I had a Takeuchi 1.5 tonner, it was brilliant, but hardly ever used it, so I sold it.

 

Now when I need one I can get a 2,5 tonner delivered relatively cheaply.

 

Hiring an articulated wheeled loader is a different story.

 

[doobin]

9 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Thing is with diggers is that they are so cheap to rent.

I had a Takeuchi 1.5 tonner, it was brilliant, but hardly ever used it, so I sold it.

 

Now when I need one I can get a 2,5 tonner delivered relatively cheaply.

 

Hiring an articulated wheeled loader is a different story.

 

Yes, but both are useless in this game without spending a pretty penny on attachments. You can’t just rent a digger with tiltrotator, timber grab, post knocker and ripper either. 
 

I've just spent half an hour tracking to the burn site and back a few times with bundles of brash. Loader would have been much quicker (but wouldn’t have gathered it up from the other side of the ditch.) Now I’m using a tilt grader to smear damp clay into a batter. Loader would be useless. I can’t win either way, but digger wins on overall versatility for me. 
 

If Kev had been using a grab rather than chasing it around I’d have kept my mouth shut ?

Edited April 4, 2020 by doobin

[TIMON]

£1600, that’s mad [emoji23]. 

Team of lads with mattocks, hand balling, rotavating , disposal, vat etc... not that far out at £1600

[Matthew Storrs]

2 hours ago, TIMON said:

 

Team of lads with mattocks, hand balling, rotavating , disposal, vat etc... not that far out at £1600

 

But using that methodology is the same as dismantling a mature oak with a silky and a butter knife ? 

[TIMON]

But using that methodology is the same as dismantling a mature oak with a silky and a butter knife [emoji38] 

I don’t agree. Most domestic landscaping firms would take a couple of days to clear, rotavate and level a medium sized garden by hand and rotavate/level.
Domestic firms using a loader with all the attachments that Kev demo’d are few and far between.

[woody paul]

No point struggling by hand when machine can do job.

Many years ago leveled a larger heap of dirt in a low way in a paddock used what I had at the time was a loader tractor with 7ft 6 muck fork finished by back dragging area looked like it had been raked by hand. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

6 hours ago, doobin said:

Yes, but both are useless in this game without spending a pretty penny on attachments. You can’t just rent a digger with tiltrotator, timber grab, post knocker and ripper either. 
 

ive just spent half an hour tracking to the burn site and back a few times with bundles of brash. Loader would have been much quicker (but wouldn’t have gathered it up from the other side of the ditch.) Now I’m using a tilt grader to smear damp clay into a batter. Loader would be useless. I can’t win, but digger wins on overall versatility for me. 
 

If Kevin has been using a grab rather than chasing it around I’d have kept my mouth shut ?

Get off the bloody MO thread digger boy! You've got the toys, go make your own sandpit!

 

Only signed up MO aficionados are allowed in here ?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Matthew Storrs]

25 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Get off the bloody MO thread digger boy! You've got the toys, go make your own sandpit!

 

Only signed up MO aficionados are allowed in here ?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

?  but your welcome To visit the digger thread if you want to see how it’s done... 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Dreadful job today.
 

Out of the blue, phone call to ask if I could dig a hole.
 

Mate lost 1 of his Newfoundlands today.
 

Got it done but 3 blokes blubbing like babies. 
 

?

[doobin]

I remember one of my first digger jobs was to bury a pony.