Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[doobin]

1 hour ago, monkeybusiness said:

Not worth financing a new Bobcat E10? 0% over 5 years, cost you about 35p per week!... 

This. But do it quick, 5 years 0% is only till the end of the month, then it's back to three years.

 

All you'd have to decide is whether you want micro (1.2t, 700mm narrowest) or mini (1.7t, 990mm narrowest, maybe £2k more)

[Matthew Storrs]

Just now, doobin said:

This. But do it quick, 5 years 0% is only till the end of the month, then it's back to three years.

 

All you'd have to decide is whether you want micro (1.2t, 700mm narrowest) or mini (1.7t, 990mm narrowest, maybe £2k more)

Is it only £2k difference between micro and mini? You wonder why anyone goes for micro- let’s face it you only have a micro if space is desperate I manage to get my mini in most places but I suppose a doorway might pose a problem. This was a little tight especially with a glazed cab?

[Stephen Blair]

4 hours ago, swinny said:

Could do with finding a cheap micro or mini digger in the next couple of months. 

 

Main job is to help us on a planting job we have coming up to dig trenches etc. 

 

Other uses would be use at home for renovation and landscaping and maybe go out with the stump grinder also to help clear or level the arrisings. 

 

Looking to spend 4-6k what can anyone recommend? Or any help thanks. Not a high budget and won't get used a lot at all to be fair 

You need to re think your numbers.  If you can afford to loose/spend £4-£6k then buy new and write that off in depreciation.

  Plus diggers at £4-£6k don’t exist, if they do they are pumped or stolen.

[doobin]

4 hours ago, Matthew Storrs said:

Is it only £2k difference between micro and mini? You wonder why anyone goes for micro- let’s face it you only have a micro if space is desperate I manage to get my mini in most places but I suppose a doorway might pose a problem. This was a little tight especially with a glazed cab?

I’ve been on my micro today with the tracks pulled in most of the time. So tight. As we’ve discussed previously, there’s no perfect digger, which is why I’ve ended up with three! There is a similar amount of engineering that goes into a top end micro like an E10, so I’m not surprised the price is close. 

[Gray git]

Bobcat out doing its thing again feeding the chipper on a site clearance, love this setup for keeping my hands away from thorns and brambles.

[Stephen Blair]

How’s your grab going Gray?  Is it taking the abuse with big sticks and wrestling about with stumps ok?

[LGP Eddie]

17 hours ago, swinny said:

Could do with finding a cheap micro or mini digger in the next couple of months. 

 

Main job is to help us on a planting job we have coming up to dig trenches etc. 

 

Other uses would be use at home for renovation and landscaping and maybe go out with the stump grinder also to help clear or level the arrisings. 

 

Looking to spend 4-6k what can anyone recommend? Or any help thanks. Not a high budget and won't get used a lot at all to be fair 

6k will have no trouble getting you something perfectly useable, and in general the odd pin/bush or even a set of tracks aren’t the scary money they used to be.

 

The main point is you’ll probably be into standard 1.5 tonners at that without expanding tracks and less popular models used like the JCB you could possibly pick up something nicer than you think.

You should get a Kubota Kx008 Micro easy enough around 6k.

 

Push the budget to around 8k and you really get a choice.

 

If it’s a lot of domestic stuff, an earlier Kubota U15 are nice compact machines with the reduced tail helping out.

 

Interestingly the much discussed and loved Takeuchi TB016 are seemingly making money now, as people haven’t been as receptive to it’s replacement.

If you’ve a tidy one look after it!

 

KUBOTA U15-3 DIGGER – World Tractors

WWW.WORLDTRACTORS.CO.UK

 

KUBOTA K008-3 MICRO DIGGER – World Tractors

WWW.WORLDTRACTORS.CO.UK

 

Eddie.

 

 

[doobin]

Actually, I might know where there's a JCB 1.4t for sale. Got a cab, but it's sticks, not servos, so is a dog to drive IMHO. Year around 2000 if memory serves. Should be cheap however.

[doobin]

8 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

How’s your grab going Gray?  Is it taking the abuse with big sticks and wrestling about with stumps ok?

Can’t speak for Gray, but I have an almost identical setup. I find that with the rotator on, the opportunities are much reduced to do most of the things that could cause bent tines and the like such as grubbing out stumps. This is down to the geometry- way less breakout force.

 

I plan to direct mount mine sans rotator in the near future, so watch this space. 

[Matthew Storrs]

8 hours ago, LGP Eddie said:

6k will have no trouble getting you something perfectly useable, and in general the odd pin/bush or even a set of tracks aren’t the scary money they used to be.

 

The main point is you’ll probably be into standard 1.5 tonners at that without expanding tracks and less popular models used like the JCB you could possibly pick up something nicer than you think.

You should get a Kubota Kx008 Micro easy enough around 6k.

 

Push the budget to around 8k and you really get a choice.

 

If it’s a lot of domestic stuff, an earlier Kubota U15 are nice compact machines with the reduced tail helping out.

 

Interestingly the much discussed and loved Takeuchi TB016 are seemingly making money now, as people haven’t been as receptive to it’s replacement.

If you’ve a tidy one look after it!

 

KUBOTA U15-3 DIGGER – World Tractors

WWW.WORLDTRACTORS.CO.UK

 

KUBOTA K008-3 MICRO DIGGER – World Tractors

WWW.WORLDTRACTORS.CO.UK

 

Eddie.

 

 

I sold my very tidy TB016 back in 2013 and reckon it would be the same if not more now had I held on to it, the downside I learnt it got stolen a few years after- obviously quite desirable for theives too!