Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[lshoran]

Here's some pictures of progress with the Hitachi, and there's also been an unplanned purchase of a Komatsu PC10-5 (2 ton) I'm planning to cut the cab off and make a safety cage with canopy as the cab is shot!

[lshoran]

[lshoran]

[lshoran]

[lshoran]

I'd like to have a small rotating timber grab on the komatsu just for feeding chippers, probably better than a grapple?

Need to have it piped first though.

[IVECOKID]

  lshoran said:

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Looking good ..

 

 

 

Ste

[roseyweb]

Matthew

We're just contemplating a tb016

Do you recommend a cab? As the one I'm looking at is cabless and I do prefere heating and radio in my usual hack which is kubota 8 toner.

And also how do you rate them as a arb machine with grapple? ie reach lift etc does it wrattle your bones if you drive with furry like small machines can?

Who's your grapple from? Digbits wanted 550+vat which seemed steep to me

[jim@T&Ccare]

recently just bought the Auger torque stump planer and Auger for our Volvo EC15b and works a treat! Taking it out fencing next week

[Matthew Storrs]

  jim@T&Ccare said:

[ATTACH]171097[/ATTACH] recently just bought the Auger torque stump planer and Auger for our Volvo EC15b and works a treat! Taking it out fencing next week

 

Hmm, that's interesting, I phoned augertorque to ask for a planer to go on my augerdrive, and they said 8ton machine minimum! must have been a new salesman, how is it on your size machine?

[Matthew Storrs]

  roseyweb said:

Matthew

We're just contemplating a tb016

Do you recommend a cab? As the one I'm looking at is cabless and I do prefere heating and radio in my usual hack which is kubota 8 toner.

And also how do you rate them as a arb machine with grapple? ie reach lift etc does it wrattle your bones if you drive with furry like small machines can?

Who's your grapple from? Digbits wanted 550+vat which seemed steep to me

 

Well, I prefer a cab, im on Dartmoor most of the time and its nice to be sat in the warm and dry still doing a days work when its pishing down out side.

The only drawback is possibly slightly reduce visibility, but in short I would never buy a cabless model if I planned on spending any time in it, they also add a bit more weight to the machine (150kg) which all helps.

I loved my TB016 it was brilliant for pretty much everything I used it for - plenty of grabwork, they have good reach for a 1.5t machine. I wouldn't go for the digbits grab myself, I had one but it was too small(tines weren't long enough) to get a good grip on logs and I had to weld teeth on the tines to get it to bite into the timber.

I have an RSL engineering grab now on a 3 tonner and its far more up to the job- iv given it some serious punishment shifting piles of big granite bolders and its held up very well, they were at the APF show and the one on the 1.5t also looked much better than the digbits one I had..