Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[AHPP]

More weights or you might as well register as a charity and introduce yourself with your pronouns.

[doobin]

It’s officially an Arb digger!

[doobin]

First couple of days on site and I’m already thinking I should have bought a 13 tonner!

 

TAB boom is wicked useful. Tracking is gutless, it’s three and a half times the weight of an E27 but less than half the horsepower and it shows! Flow shares nicely though and gets the job done. 
 

On to some lighter scrub pulling next which it should be ideal for. I’m very impressed just how dexterous the Intermecatto GX25 is for such a big grab. 

[slack ma girdle]

26 minutes ago, doobin said:

First couple of days on site and I’m already thinking I should have bought a 13 tonner!

 

TAB boom is wicked useful. Tracking is gutless, it’s three and a half times the weight of an E27 but less than half the horsepower and it shows! Flow shares nicely though and gets the job done. 
 

On to some lighter scrub pulling next which it should be ideal for. I’m very impressed just how dexterous the Intermecatto GX25 is for such a big grab. 

Those GRX grabs are a formidable bit of kit.

[Stephen Blair]

6 tonner making light work of this wee felling job.

[doobin]

11 minutes ago, Stephen Blair said:

6 tonner making light work of this wee felling job.

Is that the grx20? I have the grx25 on the jcb86c. Sat in the E27 with TG16 grab today to shift some timber into the mill and it felt like a toy 🤣

 

I borrowed the chainsaw holder from the E19 the other day and grabbed a couple of U bolts that looked about right. It worked a treat, looks like I will need to remake one for the e19!

 

im loving the tab boom on this. It’s a savage amount of digger for 29k with 380 hours. Honestly feels like a new machine in the pins. Somewhat less shiny than yours though!

Edited Friday at 22:13 by doobin

[Alan Smith]

What advantage does the tab boom give you?  Assume the controls are standard ISO.

[doobin]

12 hours ago, Alan Smith said:

What advantage does the tab boom give you?  Assume the controls are standard ISO.

Way more reach and also more lifting power close in. Great for working uphill- something which is torture in a normal digger as they are designed just to dig. For groundworks you can close the swing radius right up for tight jobs.  
 

It’s in no way as good  as a timber crane for moving timber but its a lot better than a normal digger. 
 

Controls are standard iso with the tab boom and offset controls on foot pedals. 

[AHPP]

Do you do a lot of tabbing in and out or tend to set and forget for a few minutes like the offset? 

[doobin]

19 hours ago, AHPP said:

Do you do a lot of tabbing in and out or tend to set and forget for a few minutes like the offset? 

I use it all the time- you get used to using it in conjunction with the regular joystick controls.