Show me your Arb Mini Loaders

[Stephen Blair]

Getting an Avant 423 tomorrow so looking for tips on what grabs work best and any other tips and tricks.  Thanks 

[dumper]

I rate the Klou grab for timber

[Stephen Blair]

Do you have any pics?

[MattyF]

I have a cheap kelfri one cut down on the pallet forks, steel is of dubious quality but it’s a handy tool, will secure big bundles of brash and logs a lot better than a short grab but adds some weight.. I originally got it because I could not make my mind up what would be better ..the avant conventional timber grab or beak but it’s worked so well I’ve decided neither and stuck with this !
You can drive down the side of a dressed out tree and pick up all the brash in one or two passes by crushing it with the beak... that’s 3 times the size of the avant one! Keep meaning to get more pics but the kind of jobs it’s used on are usually the kind where no photos get time !

[woody paul]

What are you going to be moving mostly with it, I use muck grab on big open site to move brash and built a grab for moving brash and logs on other tight sites.

[Transplanted]

I use to have an avant and for 11 years I managed with Avant's own fork / grab, for moving timber and brash. Buying the Avant and attachments was one of the best things I ever did. It got abused and bent out of shape, so I recently rebuilt it and increased its capacity slightly to use on the Multione mainly for mucking out farm sheds. So 13 years on, its still doing a great job !    I use a Kelfri grab on the tractor, which would work well on a heavier compact loader. It's not really strong enough for the tractor as I bent this soon after I got it and when picking up a large piece it can lose its grip past a ton and a quarter.  Multione's own grab works well for brash, but is heavy and does not tilt back much, reducing the weight carrying capacity.  I'm thinking about putting the Kelfri grab on the Multione for lifting large diameter timber.  

 So to Stephen, I would say borrow, hire or try other people's machines and grabs before making your mind up. 

 

[Stephen Blair]

I want to put a spare digger hitch on an avant mounting plate so I can use my grabs and tree shear on it and I reckon a tined grab like that would be the answer for most jobs 

[Stephen Blair]

Good advice, the dealer is loaning me a set of forks with beak on it to see how I get on this week and I'll see what I think.

 

[woody paul]

Out every attachment I have a set of pallet fork are the handest to shift stuff about, good for large lumps of timber as they weigh nothing so you can lift more. 

[woody paul]

Also stick a 50mm ball on back great little shunter.