Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[swinny]

That's the old girl anyhow... dragged and stacked some timber to somewhere I could get tractor to earlier this week

[swinny]

These screw splitters for diggers... 2.6t etc

 

What are they like at breaking down 36" diameter timber at say 6' long? Does it help to bore into the wood with a ground saw etc bore in 15" a few bores down the length then crack on with splitter?

 

I've had a few and have some more to come removals where there's not loads of room for timber trailer etc, some restricted access. 

 

Rather than cutting it into 2' chunks and man handling with the digger I wondered about cracking it down and switching back to the grab to remove from site..... 

 

I'm talking gnarly crap too .... big fat sycamore with unions etc...

 Poplar? Is it really chewy and harder work? Conifer etc

 

I suppose it handles different timber differently. 

 

Cheers 🍻 

Edited June 29 by swinny

[openspaceman]

On 10/05/2025 at 10:37, Malus said:

Oh I just saw the other replies. My flail doesn't run at all when the circuit is set to dual acting, it's a femac. 

 

If you add a return to tank I think the returning oil wants to go back in to the tank below the oil level. If it sprays through the air I think you'll end up with loads of cavitation and frothy oil coming out the top of the tank 

Yes that's right.

 

The other thing is as the flail only rotates one way the  motor drain is normally dumped into the return line, it's reversing motors that need a dedicated drain to tank.

[swinny]

So as a follow up. Turns out my machine is dual acting only. 

 

I bought the jb equipment flail and plumbed it in correctly as the motor only should go one way. No case drain needed. My kubota runs the flail fine. To make sure I don't press the pedal the other way I have a piece of 3 1/2" x 1 1/2" I shove under the pedal at that side lol 😆 😂 

 

I also bought the shear for the digger and it was a mass8ve help on a job not long ago.... horrible blackthorn over a building. Just snip and up and away happy days 😊 

[doobin]

9 hours ago, swinny said:

These screw splitters for diggers... 2.6t etc

 

What are they like at breaking down 36" diameter timber at say 6' long? Does it help to bore into the wood with a ground saw etc bore in 15" a few bores down the length then crack on with splitter?

 

I've had a few and have some more to come removals where there's not loads of room for timber trailer etc, some restricted access. 

 

Rather than cutting it into 2' chunks and man handling with the digger I wondered about cracking it down and switching back to the grab to remove from site..... 

 

I'm talking gnarly crap too .... big fat sycamore with unions etc...

 Poplar? Is it really chewy and harder work? Conifer etc

 

I suppose it handles different timber differently. 

 

Cheers 🍻 

For that application I’d ring up rather than cone split any day. 
 

Easier and less mess. 
 

all assuming you o my want to make the timber into small enough bits for the digger to handle. 

[swinny]

3 hours ago, doobin said:

For that application I’d ring up rather than cone split any day. 
 

Easier and less mess. 
 

all assuming you o my want to make the timber into small enough bits for the digger to handle. 

Yeah just make small and manageable. Other week on a lawn, ringing up no no due to sawdust. Up coming job in a woodland at side of a path ok as can blow it all into under growth. I suppose 16" rings better than nowt. Just to break down to get the bugger away that's all. Get it dragged or lifted to tractor without it rolling off down a hill 😆 

 

I had even wondered about using grapple instead of rotating grab as it opens wider I think, weighs a lot less but also has longer fingers / tines to go down and around timber to grab...?

 

I had wondered about breaking timber down at yard and chipping with a heizo but not gone further with that yet.

Edited June 30 by swinny

[Stephen Blair]

Screw splitter is good but comes down to type of wood and operator.  As far as boring down with saw, that takes away the point of having a seat and radio imo.  You learn to ready the timber and follow the grains.  Anything with knots takes longer, anything straight and clean just pops in half.  I doubt you would regret the purchase.

[Stephen Blair]

Digger making life easy today.