Bandit ZT1844 bad points anyone?

[dangb93]

A fantastic machine (now replaced by the SG40) but a massive design fault - most grinders apparently have a system that means if you let go of the control lever, or move away from the controls the cutter wheel stops...not so the bandit - you can have the cutter wheel running at full throttle and walk away and leave it going. If you see my thread "to all stump grinder operators" you will see what happened when I walked away from my controls round the front of the machine to briefly stand up the debris guard that the wind had blown over....

Yes I shouldn't have left it running when I left the controls, yes I shouldn't have walked round the front of it, and yes Bandit would say that I shouldn't have done it, there's nothing wrong with the machine but the fact is there's loads of us idiots out there that do stuff like that and you would expect the machine to have a 'dead mans handle' or similar...

I take full responsibility for my actions that day, but why on earth wouldn't the manufacturer fit that basic safety feature!!

[dan blocker]

On 29/04/2023 at 12:08, dangb93 said:

A fantastic machine (now replaced by the SG40) but a massive design fault - most grinders apparently have a system that means if you let go of the control lever, or move away from the controls the cutter wheel stops...not so the bandit - you can have the cutter wheel running at full throttle and walk away and leave it going. If you see my thread "to all stump grinder operators" you will see what happened when I walked away from my controls round the front of the machine to briefly stand up the debris guard that the wind had blown over....

Yes I shouldn't have left it running when I left the controls, yes I shouldn't have walked round the front of it, and yes Bandit would say that I shouldn't have done it, there's nothing wrong with the machine but the fact is there's loads of us idiots out there that do stuff like that and you would expect the machine to have a 'dead mans handle' or similar...

I take full responsibility for my actions that day, but why on earth wouldn't the manufacturer fit that basic safety feature!!

There’s a lot of grinders that don’t have a dead man’s handle. Sorry to here about your accident, hope your on the mend, long, painful process no doubt. It’s easily done in a moment of madness. Plenty of farmers/ contractors injured and killed with PTO stuff that they’re sorting out when really it should of been turned off along with the engine. We all seem to be under pressure to get more done and quicker and that’s when things go wrong. All the best to you mate.