Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Stephen Blair]

How did it get on with the gaps at the back?

[aspenarb]

  Stephen Blair said:

How did it get on with the gaps at the back?

 

I did ask the same question Stephen ,the operator who had developed the thing with the fitters had them cut the back out because the machine could not pick up or drag the bucket through the soil without the windows. Driver reckons as is its perfect.

 

Bob

[Duffryn]

Couple of pics from this weekend with the JCB 8080 and hydraulic thumb.

 

Clearing track after thinning work and reinstating camber

 

Clear rides of brash

[IVECOKID]

Nice work .

 

 

Ste

[Stephen Blair]

I think a hydraulic thumb would be excellent!

Did you make your own?

More pics if you could please

[Duffryn]

  Stephen Blair said:

I think a hydraulic thumb would be excellent!

Did you make your own?

More pics if you could please

 

If you only buy one bit of kit for your excavator buy a hydraulic thumb. Got mine from RSL engineering, cheap and a great bit of kit that save hours and hours of work. If I had my time again I would opt for a wider thumb

[Stephen Blair]

Thanks!

 

https://www.facebook.com/MiningEarthmovingMachinery/videos/994444867269975/

[LGP Eddie]

  Stephen Blair said:

I think a hydraulic thumb would be excellent!

Did you make your own?

More pics if you could please

 

There are thumbs on pretty much anything excavator wise when you go to the states or Canada, but they prefer the progressive link type which we never see, but are available over here from the likes of Geith.

 

Hard to find something to explain the difference, but I came across this video and I think it should convey what I'm getting at?

The basics are they fold up better and give a much wider working range for very little extra.

 

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Eddie.

[Stephen Blair]

I know what you mean, my mates got 1 on his 1.5 toner and you can't work close it, you have to pick things up at almost full reach.

[Duffryn]

  LGP Eddie said:

There are thumbs on pretty much anything excavator wise when you go to the states or Canada, but they prefer the progressive link type which we never see, but are available over here from the likes of Geith.

 

Hard to find something to explain the difference, but I came across this video and I think it should convey what I'm getting at?

The basics are they fold up better and give a much wider working range for very little extra.

 

 

 

 

Eddie.

 

A great example of why listening to someone that knows a great deal more than you before splashing out on kit pays dividends. This would have been so much better than the thumb I purchased