Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[LGP Eddie]

Well, I called up a mates place today where he'd got a new bit of kit dropped off to demo and give his input?

 

Shaun runs a lovely setup being a Komatsu PC27mr with an Engcon Tiltrotator setup, plus a large range of attachments, and this was a Tree shear being developed just for this size of machine which I know is a popular size with people on here?

It's branded as Hurricane, and will I expect be the first of a range?

 

I was mightily impressed by the shear, being very light in weight, good geometry, and extremely impressive cutting power.

It provided just enough extra reach to be really useful, and was well within the machines capabilities.

Obviously the Tiltrotator is the perfect match, allowing rotation plus angling to get maximum effect, but I assume this will eventually be available with rotation for standard machines.

 

It handled anything you could put into it, with the occasional few nibbles required on 10" stuff, but real world 8" cutting capacity on a 3 tonne machine is pretty good going really?

 

Seriously handy for a bit of trimming around field margins, but Shaun and myself had great fun doing a bit of lazy man's logging just to try her out.

 

A nice bit of kit!

 

If anyone was interested I can find out more?

 

 

Eddie.

[Matthew Storrs]

Hi Eddie,

 

That looks a cracking bit of kit, I would be interested for one on my 3 tonner. Can you use the 'pinch' for moving small trees out the way once you've cut them at base, just thinking for scrub clearance jobs....

[LGP Eddie]

Hi Eddie,

 

That looks a cracking bit of kit, I would be interested for one on my 3 tonner. Can you use the 'pinch' for moving small trees out the way once you've cut them at base, just thinking for scrub clearance jobs....

 

It's still a prototype, but you may just see the very tips of the blades are left as square not sharpened, and allow just what you describe, to simply pinch stuff to move and stack.

I was lifting the big piece over the fence in this way in the picture.

 

It's got a great potential, and to be honest is a lot of cut for a small machine? One guy could seriously drop some stuff in a day with this and on clearance work the shear can get really flush to the floor.

You could do a great job of the field margins for Silage trailers etc.

 

 

Eddie.

[Matthew Storrs]

Do you know what those brackets on top of the shear is for? I would be well pleased if I could cut even 6" trees/scrub off at base with a 3 tonner. Is there a knack to getting it to fall in the right direction too?

[Breezeblock]

what are the blades made of they have quite a good finish what the size of the cylinders its quite hard to judge from the pics

[LGP Eddie]

what are the blades made of they have quite a good finish what the size of the cylinders its quite hard to judge from the pics

 

The brackets are for a proposed gripper to hold stuff you're cutting (still a prototype) and the blades made top notch Hardox, properly sharpened by an engineering company.

The cylinders, are spot on for the job, not ridiculously slow, but boy does she cut for a little un!

I put it on some 14" stuff and it just bit out every last piece it could grab from it!

 

Like I say it's all a bit under wraps, well perhaps I've knackered that up a bit, but scope for any option wished for to be added at this stage really?

 

 

Eddie.

[Stephen Blair]

I like that!

[LGP Eddie]

It was asked how the 8 tonner gets moved so I took a quick photo this morning.

 

Well I've probably got the Ultimate Arb Digger working for me this week!

 

Those who watched the video of me on the Long reach and Mulcher setup recently will perhaps recognise the project, and I was really paving the way for this machine to do some of the trickier stuff.

 

These machines are simply incredible, and the owner Sean is a top guy to deal with.

 

It's running a huge FAE flail reserved for much larger machines, but the Menzi is designed to run and handle such attachments with ease.

To hear it Mulching is unreal? Only running at 1850rpm on the engine, but the Mulcher simply never slows whatever the loading!

Serious performance!

 

These Menzi are ultra specialist, but boy can they get the job done!

 

 

Eddie.

[Breezeblock]

that looks a nightmare to repair is that about the size of a 13 tonner

[dig-dug-dan]

those machines are awesome. I saw a video on youtube of it climbing up the side of a building! incredible