Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[swinny]

What do folk think of the volvo ec range? I know I run one but its an oldie.... seen a nice 1.8t near me.... WHats prices like on them generally? dear or dearer than others or just the same? Thanks

[alandurrant]

Had the new 030 delivered Tuesday. This is going to be so good...
Although the old little one can't be underestimated.

[dumper]

On 01/08/2021 at 22:03, swinny said:

Right.... Think It might be better to look at a cheaper second hand 2.5machine and keep the 1.5 also...

 

Need to think of where I want to go in business and maybe go for slightly bigger digger and low loader it to site

 

Too many decisions and no job is the same 🤣

 

Uses for digger are only to aid stump grinding and carting logs about. Not into massive digging out jobs etc. 

 

 

If you are not excavating follow doobin get a mini loader

[LGP Eddie]

I could possibly have posted this before in the past on here, first glance it got fairly hammered as a safety nightmare back in the day when first spotted, but fair play the guy seems to have battled through and produced something that really has to be worthy of consideration.

 

From experience of just about every trick going to move pallets of materials with a mini, this has to have some potential now.

 

End of life for all them TB016’s I told you to buy that have probably gone up in money now!

 

 

Eddie.

[LGP Eddie]

Yes you’re all thinking be handy with that diverter valve on the auxiliary and a lifting mast too!

 

 

 

Eddie.

[Stephen Blair]

[doobin]

1 hour ago, LGP Eddie said:

I could possibly have posted this before in the past on here, first glance it got fairly hammered as a safety nightmare back in the day when first spotted, but fair play the guy seems to have battled through and produced something that really has to be worthy of consideration.

 

From experience of just about every trick going to move pallets of materials with a mini, this has to have some potential now.

 

End of life for all them TB016’s I told you to buy that have probably gone up in money now!

 

 

Eddie.

That’s still a complete bodge of a solution. Have they sold even one? 
 

If you want to load and unload pallets, you need to hire a mini loader or rough terrain forklift. 
 

Look at the faff needed to turn it all around! You’ll leave half your tracks behind trying to unload a lorry on a driveway. 

[LGP Eddie]

13 minutes ago, doobin said:

That’s still a complete bodge of a solution. Have they sold even one? 
 

If you want to load and unload pallets, you need to hire a mini loader or rough terrain forklift. 
 

Look at the faff needed to turn it all around! You’ll leave half your tracks behind trying to unload a lorry on a driveway. 

Wouldn’t think it particularly aimed at loading/unloading trucks.

 

Most stuff lands on site via crane truck now and even tonne bags can be simply landed on a pallet.

 

Small outfits could save themselves a lot of handball and far safer than the tricks we’ve probably all used to shift tubs, pallets and bags about.

 

 

[swinny]

Decision done. Picking this up next weekend. Smaller 1.8t.machine suits my workload better.

 

I've got a tractor loader and botex 560 after all so it only needs to get things so far, but I need a machine that can get anywhere. A 2.5t machine wasn't that.

 

Just need to sort a grab and possibly rotator now and some other bits and bobs..... Never heart of a Martin manual hitch before but nothing off my old Volvo will change over as different pin spacings and maybe diameter of pins! 

 

one online source said hydraulic flow was 48lpm which I didnt think was shabby! 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by swinny

[John Shutler]

1 hour ago, swinny said:

Decision done. Picking this up next weekend. Smaller 1.8t.machine suits my workload better.

 

I've got a tractor loader and botex 560 after all so it only needs to get things so far, but I need a machine that can get anywhere. A 2.5t machine wasn't that.

 

Just need to sort a grab and possibly rotator now and some other bits and bobs..... Never heart of a Martin manual hitch before but nothing off my old Volvo will change over as different pin spacings and maybe diameter of pins! 

 

one online source said hydraulic flow was 48lpm which I didnt think was shabby! 

 

when i bought my bobcat e19 i was also looking at the volvo ec18. i think the 1.8-2tonne machines are a great little size, easy to move around, can still pack a punch in what they get done in a day and easy to sneak into jobs especially if they’ve got a variable width track base