Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[doobin]

8 hours ago, IronMike said:

I was going to add a similar statement to the “biggest issues facing our industry” thread. 
 

I can’t stand arbs doing forestry! 🤣

There are whole trees in there, left where they fell but chopped up into three foot lengths. Why??? The stools were cut at chest height, some big ones too. What a bodge. 
 

i finished the day with some rhody. No stumps to weave between and the brash from the last time they did that has all disintegrated. Cleared the same area as I did all day in an hour. 

[AHPP]

Tree surgeons dong clearance:

One of my earliest freelancing gigs was on a clearance job. A five acre garden with about three acres of trees, a sort of plantation and some dotted about specimens. Mostly small stuff, 6-12" DBH. It was three or four of us manually felling and feeding a shit 6" chipper on a trailer that we couldn't push. A Transit would cart chip to a pile and get stuck. A pickup turned up eventually to move the chipper and a tractor with a loader bucket turned up at the end to collect the wood (cut to man manageable pieces obviously). The driver couldn't scoop it so he loaded it into the bucket manually. I remember at the time being primarily aggrieved we couldn't just burn it all but how badly it was planned didn't sink in until it was over. I didn't know anything about machines at the time and just did what I was told and paid for. Some monster digger was coming in afterwards to dig the stumps out anyway. God knows why the boss didn't mechanise. The job was fifteen miles from Justin Kingwell's yard. Fittest I've ever been though.

Edited September 2, 2022 by AHPP

[william127]

Had the 1.5 ton out last week. Having not used it for months I did 4 jobs with it in 2 days 😅, mucked out a cow pen, stacked a silver birch, leveled a compost heap and cleared up my bonfire heap. After using the micro for so long, the reach on this feels enormous 😅😅😅

[Martin du Preez]

What are we saying is a strong 2.7t machine atm? What’s got good flow and durability? Using a cat 302.7 atm, just wondering if there’s much better? Any thoughts?

[dumper]

Look at the case dealer in harlow 

[doobin]

9 hours ago, Martin du Preez said:

What are we saying is a strong 2.7t machine atm? What’s got good flow and durability? Using a cat 302.7 atm, just wondering if there’s much better? Any thoughts?

Compare engine sizes and overall weights. Many manufacturers offer something around 2.5t with an engine not much bigger than a 1.9t. You want the one around 2.7-2.8t. Often a 'premium' model with twin aux and rollers on the joystick, which is essential for arb work with a grab IMHO.

 

Bobcat E27 (not E27z or Doosan DX27, both are zero and smaller engines)

Kubota KX30, not KX27

I think the new CAT models rate highly here too, and I know air con is standard which is a big leap forward.

The Eurocomach 2.7t machine has a fourth pump dedicated to the aux, so there's not much to touch that for flow rate (at a cost!) I've seen videos of it tracking and flailing a hedge, and doing a decent job of it too.

 

[dumper]

Had a go in the eurocomach which is now case thought it was very good but at a price defiantly a owner driver machine but loads of hydraulic power and option on three piece arm plus it’s not chinky unlike the CAT

Edited October 10, 2022 by dumper

[JLA1990]

3 minutes ago, dumper said:

Had a go in the eurocomach which is now case thought it was very good but at a price defiantly a owner driver machine but loads of hydraulic power and option on three piece arm plus it’s not chinky unlike the CAT

What size? Like the look 100TR but yet to have a go in one. 

[JLA1990]

Bobcat E27 would be my choice but I couldn’t get one so went with a sany sy26u - could have a moan about it but for the money and warranty plus what comes as standard it’s good enough 

[Matthew Storrs]

Personally think if your into handling tasks you want to be looking at one of the few that still do proper counterweights, having spent last week on a zero tail Hitachi and now back on my own Takeuchi the difference is night and day. So that leaves Kubota kx030, Yanmar SV26, Bobcat E27, doubt any of them would be a bad choice tbh. The Takeuchi TB230 is a genuine 3 ton machine so a bit weighty really for towing.