Show your Diggers and/or Excavators

[rowan lee]

I bought this little Volvo, a few months back for playing with at the weekends.

(sad really i know, while everyone else is off drinking, scoring women, etc etc, i'm back at the ranch messing in fields with wee diggers in my spare time )

28yrs of dreaming about owning one, and finally the wait is over.

Cleaning up a mates yards in this one:thumbup1:

[elfinwood saws]

bought this 10years a go and still love it good old david brown engine in this one 4x4 and extra dig, it,s next big job is digging out a swimming pond in my woods. not me in the photo

[geoff]

She's a handy old tool with a 3 in 1 bucket.

[robert t]

My little digger, 2.7tonne volvo. 5 years old, Ive had for 4 years. Best buy ever, might be selling shortly to buy new one.

[Simon Rotheram]

Nice Rob, looks really handy. Can you get that attachment to fit a 1.5t excavator?

[robert t]

Nice Rob, looks really handy. Can you get that attachment to fit a 1.5t excavator?

 

Its just a standard grapple and rotator supplied from Caledonian Forestry so should fit smaller machines ok. Caledonian Forestry made a bracket for quick hitch and re jigged the piping and fitted quick fittings, all for £1500. You can change it back to normal digger in two minutes.

[david]

3/4 tonne and 3 tonne with grab

 

 

[elfinwood saws]

here,s my four legged tractor he rides and drives

[RichardT]

 

The old Case/DB drott dug the footings for our house and hacked some tracks through the wood, but was slow, uncomfortable and constantly threw tracks on hidden stumps etc., so I swapped it for the MF50 which was useful but big and numb, so that got Ebayed to a Brit who shipped it to his place in Spain to grub up old olive trees...

 

 

At the moment the only digger here is the 1962 Mcconnel backhoe bought for £100 from a local farm sale and put on the back of the Goldoni compact as & when required. Surprisingly fast and strong but no subframe so care is needed.....

 

[elfinwood saws]

like the drott never seen one with a back hoe