Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[doobin]

11 minutes ago, Gray git said:

It's a 6t boughton off a old military vehicle,
I thought about hooking it on the blade but being able to reach over fences and walls was too much of a benefit for us.

How you going to pipe your winch?

It's going to have to come from the aux simply due to flow rates- a blade tee woudl be far too slow.

 

To be fair, the faff of hooking it on is probably comparable to the faff of removing the grab/rotator combo! With 4t more pull than yours I'll keep it on the blade I think.

 

Has a radio remote control- should be handy when it's finished.

Edited February 29, 2020 by doobin

[Gray git]

It's going to have to come from the aux simply due to flow rates- a blade tee woudl be far too slow.
 
To be fair, the faff of hooking it on is probably comparable to the faff of removing the grab/rotator combo! With 4t more pull than yours I'll keep it on the blade I think.
 
Has a radio remote control- should be handy when it's finished.

The pull will be partly depending on the pressure blow out on your aux circuit so worth checking that against your winches recommend pressure as I know on ours that maxes out before the winch will.

[doobin]

15 minutes ago, Gray git said:

2 hours ago, doobin said:

It's going to have to come from the aux simply due to flow rates- a blade tee woudl be far too slow.
 
To be fair, the faff of hooking it on is probably comparable to the faff of removing the grab/rotator combo! With 4t more pull than yours I'll keep it on the blade I think.
 
Has a radio remote control- should be handy when it's finished.

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The pull will be partly depending on the pressure blow out on your aux circuit so worth checking that against your winches recommend pressure as I know on ours that maxes out before the winch will.

Mine needs a pressure reducer to protect the winch. 

[LGP Eddie]

My good friend Shaun Gratton’s old setup just come up.

This had the very best of first owner and is a brilliant setup to use.

 

The Komatsu mini’s are totally overlooked by most, but are fantastic bits of kit.

 

 

Eddie.
 

 

[dig-dug-dan]

9 hours ago, LGP Eddie said:

My good friend Shaun Gratton’s old setup just come up.

This had the very best of first owner and is a brilliant setup to use.

 

The Komatsu mini’s are totally overlooked by most, but are fantastic bits of kit.

 

 

Eddie.
 

 

High hours, but looks tidy, and a fair price

[LGP Eddie]

54 minutes ago, dig-dug-dan said:

High hours, but looks tidy, and a fair price

Probably the best small setup I’ve ever used.

It’s got the Engcon DC2 system that I’m not a fan of, but the rest is a great setup as it’s an Ec02 with the correct S30 Hitch for this size machine, and older style top hitch which is far less bulky than the latest version.

Operating it you hardly know the Tilty is on.

The Cab’s are a good size for a zero tail and it’s capable of a serious amount of work in a day.

Shaun kept it 100% in terms of maintenance, and always has his kit mint looking.

 

Hours go against it, but you’d have to buy on condition I suppose.

 

 

Eddie.

[dig-dug-dan]

32 minutes ago, LGP Eddie said:

Probably the best small setup I’ve ever used.

It’s got the Engcon DC2 system that I’m not a fan of, but the rest is a great setup as it’s an Ec02 with the correct S30 Hitch for this size machine, and older style top hitch which is far less bulky than the latest version.

Operating it you hardly know the Tilty is on.

The Cab’s are a good size for a zero tail and it’s capable of a serious amount of work in a day.

Shaun kept it 100% in terms of maintenance, and always has his kit mint looking.

 

Hours go against it, but you’d have to buy on condition I suppose.

 

 

Eddie.

I cant begin to understand your huge knowledge base on this kind of thing, but it does make you wonder if these machines can simply go on and on for hours before they just fall to bits?

[LGP Eddie]

50 minutes ago, dig-dug-dan said:

I cant begin to understand your huge knowledge base on this kind of thing, but it does make you wonder if these machines can simply go on and on for hours before they just fall to bits?

Triggers broom I suppose? But machines somehow seem to die a natural death of getting ever more shagged out, sold onto more occasional users who aren’t so fussy as long as it digs, or exported to countries that will be more than pleased to see anything that replaces manual labour.

Some quite fresh machines can end up straight in the dismantlers these days for Computer, DPF, Engines etc.

They don’t build them like they used to as they say, and they also don’t train old school fitters. No disrespect to anyone but hard to disagree the industry is geared to quick diagnostic and full part replacement, instead of old school take it off and fix it!

 

 

Eddie.

Edited March 1, 2020 by LGP Eddie

[scbk]

8 hours ago, LGP Eddie said:

Triggers broom I suppose? But machines somehow seem to die a natural death of getting ever more shagged out, sold onto more occasional users who aren’t so fussy as long as it digs, or exported to countries that will be more than pleased to see anything that replaces manual labour.

 

Or eventually find their way onto a croft on the west coast, where they will slowly rot

 

There's some folks still running hand start machines!

[dig-dug-dan]

Some great YouTube videos of people trying to get old diggers running that have sat for years. Currently in the middle of a guy I presume in Ireland trying to get an old digger running so he can move it to his workshop. You sometimes wonder if it's really worth it the state its in