Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[doobin]

47 minutes ago, LGP Eddie said:

The Hinowa was great but just needed the tip angle modding a bit (I never got around to it) as you end up giving them a jolt to get the last bit out when tipping.

 

If you zoom in on the engine, you’ll see an additional downward pointing silencer box.

Best mod ever, just a simple Mini silencer box from the local exhaust place, it totally transformed it with the noise reduction.

 

Be a nice Log Splitter platform if you could pick one up cheap enough.

 

 

They also don't lift high enough to clear a Transit tipper, which is no good in my line of work.

 

What spurred your move from micro machines to the big uns you run now? It's incredible looking back through this thread to see how far everyone has come.

Edited January 18, 2022 by doobin

[LGP Eddie]

Obviously I used to load the Ifor, but I was utilising Grab Wagons back then and a lot of work was barn conversion stuff where you literally just had to get stuff outside for larger machines to take over and materials back in.

 

I just go where the journey takes me, I’m shite at business and not that great with people, but I can get by with kit.

 

 

 

 

[LGP Eddie]

Sadly I haven’t any images of when I first started out on machines, that was a 2 wheel drive JCB 3cx with no Extending arm.

Promotion to an old C registration 4wd non turbo black cab Sitemaster and finally given my first new machine a Case 580sk non Turbo.

Sadly this burnt out, and it’s replacement was a Case 580sk Turbo in this image.

 

Took me an awful lot of years of operating for others to be able to have a shot on my own.

[LGP Eddie]

Been a steady drip feed through the media on this really nice looking Dx100w Rubber Duck available now from Doosan.

 

A real handy size and it’ll take a bite out of the JCB Hydradig for certain.

Could make a great bit of kit for roadside stuff.

 

 

 

 

[Gray git]

Been a steady drip feed through the media on this really nice looking Dx100w Rubber Duck available now from Doosan.
 
A real handy size and it’ll take a bite out of the JCB Hydradig for certain.

Could make a great bit of kit for roadside stuff.
 

 

 
 

We had looked at this as a future option to carry a GMT 35ttc as it's the perfect roadside size and in theory with the legs and blade should be really stable.
Would just need to get rid of the dules and put good quality flotations on.

[LGP Eddie]

2 hours ago, Gray git said:

We had looked at this as a future option to carry a GMT 35ttc as it's the perfect roadside size and in theory with the legs and blade should be really stable.
Would just need to get rid of the dules and put good quality flotations on.

Yes absolutely, be interesting to see what the load charts look like on it.

Certainly would make a very versatile carrier machine.

 

Sadly the larger Hydradig concept got cut, as it would have been literally perfect for such applications.

[Gray git]

Yes absolutely, be interesting to see what the load charts look like on it.
Certainly would make a very versatile carrier machine.
 
Sadly the larger Hydradig concept got cut, as it would have been literally perfect for such applications.

Yeah very little point in them building something we wouldn't be allowed to use to its fullest potential as a road registered vehicle

[LGP Eddie]

4 minutes ago, Gray git said:

7 minutes ago, LGP Eddie said:

Yes absolutely, be interesting to see what the load charts look like on it.
Certainly would make a very versatile carrier machine.
 
Sadly the larger Hydradig concept got cut, as it would have been literally perfect for such applications.

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Yeah very little point in them building something we wouldn't be allowed to use to its fullest potential as a road registered vehicle

I don’t think that was the issue, very difficult concept to upscale and keep the same stability, as the footprint is the footprint, you can’t just make it half a metre wider like a tracked version.

[LGP Eddie]

Brochure is now out, gives away a couple of metres of reach to a conventional zero tail 14 tonne tracked unit, but is heading for 40k in travel speed.

 

Load chart isn’t the worst and a GMT 035 TTC on a short jib would work nicely if you could get the geometry right and sorted for travel.

 

Really nice size unit.

 

https://eu.doosanequipment.com/media/download/22871

[dig-dug-dan]

On 18/01/2022 at 11:14, LGP Eddie said:

Sadly I haven’t any images of when I first started out on machines, that was a 2 wheel drive JCB 3cx with no Extending arm.

Promotion to an old C registration 4wd non turbo black cab Sitemaster and finally given my first new machine a Case 580sk non Turbo.

Sadly this burnt out, and it’s replacement was a Case 580sk Turbo in this image.

 

Took me an awful lot of years of operating for others to be able to have a shot on my own.

I note your comment about the machine " got burnt out"

Years ago I was using a local guy who ran two 1994 case backhoe loaders, his two sons drove them and he did the muck away.

One night they parked both diggers up in a council yard. The CCTV captured the moment one machine, 6 months old,  burst into flames in the middle of the night, which was handy for the insurance claim. Luckily, the other digger was parked some distance away and unscathed. 

Seems they had some electrical issues!