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45 minutes ago, Stephen Blair said:

On stumps use the crown of the bucket to lift rather than the main boom, Chuck a big rock in behind them for leverage, that should help reduce the  bucking bronco effect as they do have a lot of power for their weight.

Yes, and if you need more power direct mount the bucket.

 

Or use a ripper tooth! (although good luck hiring one 🙄)

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50 minutes ago, woody paul said:

Is it Hitachi that make a 1.5t digger with tracks you can retract to make it same width as micro one. 

As far as I’m aware, nobody do. A couple of of 1.2t models around that go down to 710mm, and there’s an oddball Kobelco I think that is 1.3 and goes down to 800mm

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Just found which Hitachi it was I hire about 3 years ago it was a ZX17U-6, go's down to 980mm wide but is zero tail as well.

So not as micro as I thought just remember you pull tracks in and knock ends of dozer off. 

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38 minutes ago, woody paul said:

Just found which Hitachi it was I hire about 3 years ago it was a ZX17U-6, go's down to 980mm wide but is zero tail as well.

So not as micro as I thought just remember you pull tracks in and knock ends of dozer off. 

I saw one of those in your neck of the woods last week and was struck by what a neat little machine it was.

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58 minutes ago, doobin said:

As far as I’m aware, nobody do. A couple of of 1.2t models around that go down to 710mm, and there’s an oddball Kobelco I think that is 1.3 and goes down to 800mm

Can you recall the model numbers? I'm by no means an expert machine man but Kobelco have always struck me as having some good, niche ideas, like the hinging dipper.

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41 minutes ago, woody paul said:

Just found which Hitachi it was I hire about 3 years ago it was a ZX17U-6, go's down to 980mm wide but is zero tail as well.

So not as micro as I thought just remember you pull tracks in and knock ends of dozer off. 

Terex do (or did) a 1.6 or 1.7 ton which does the same. Pos of a machine though. Had a hinowa 1.7 tonner way back with retractable tracks too. That wasn't a great machine either. Think it was still over 1m wide retracted. It was more for better stability than accessibility.

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15 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

Terex do (or did) a 1.6 or 1.7 ton which does the same. Pos of a machine though. Had a hinowa 1.7 tonner way back with retractable tracks too. That wasn't a great machine either. Think it was still over 1m wide retracted. It was more for better stability than accessibility.

I had a 1.5 ton bobcat canopy digger that had retractable tracks 2007 i think it was.

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