Mini digger flails- are they worth it.

[Stephen Blair]

[Stephen Blair]

Brambles and grass effortless, up to 4” takes a bit of practise.

  I cover a 15’ radius and up to 10’ high I reckon so no need to track at the same time.

  Use the largest rams the least and the flail spins as fast as possible.  Keep the teeth sharp.

[dig-dug-dan]

It seems to Cope with rubbish thrown from cars ok!

[Stephen Blair]

Only things that were a problem were big hits of polythene wrapping around. It easily came off just pulling it off by hand .

 An old metal pole that hand been gas axed off 8” from the ground gave the teeth a good ding and a mattress full of springs under the Ivy brought things to a halt.  Word of warning, if there’s a big new shiny sign, there will of been an old 1 removed?

  

[LGP Eddie]

5 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

Only things that were a problem were big hits of polythene wrapping around. It easily came off just pulling it off by hand .

 An old metal pole that hand been gas axed off 8” from the ground gave the teeth a good ding and a mattress full of springs under the Ivy brought things to a halt.  Word of warning, if there’s a big new shiny sign, there will of been an old 1 removed?

  

Always had a pair of decent bolt cutters as they never go flat and a nice thin chain with a hook each end long enough to reach back to the blade.

Incredible the messes of wire etc I’ve had wrapped around the rotor, but a few moments finding the end and hooking it back to the blade and rolling it back out.

Scariest thing I’ve ever had was losing a tooth tip with plenty of sparks and a hell of a bang!?

 

Eddie.

[Stephen Blair]

I’ve got the battery grinder now and that’s saved so much time with wire!

[Khriss]

On 27/09/2019 at 13:43, roseyweb said:

We have one our E26 

Its a fantastic tool, but it doe's over heat the hydraulic, it gets to 70'+ very quickly so flailing on a hot still day 

 

 

That topiary job looks fab mate! Skill in effect there!..... How did you miss shatterin those windows? K

[monkeybusiness]

Mattresses are a pain in the backside with a tractor mulcher. Worst site I did had been used by cable thieves for stripping armoured cable - there was miles of the steel armour hidden in patches everywhere! If you were lucky and it was a small enough clump the mulcher would chop it up and spit it out (lots of sparks and metal shards stuck in the tyres and mudguards) - otherwise it was a shut everything down and get the grinder out again.... 

[roseyweb]

On 27/09/2019 at 13:53, woody paul said:

You did a go good job on them yews. 

Could you not fit an extra cooling fan. 

Its on my to do list, a fan would be a easy fit there, 

I took the bit of trim of to give a bit better air flow but the rad is tiny, when my fitter is back to good health its the first job for him, 

I love those Bobcat E26's  and I think there the best 3tonner having driven nearly all of them for numerous reasons, except the tiddly rad 

[Stephen Blair]

What to watch out for is when towing, the spray from the pick up can go straight into the radiator on the digger when it’s on the trailer, it does on the CAT through the plastic hood, I regularly blast it back out with the compressor.