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If you take a bog standard 8 tonner, what kind of job and cost would be in involved equipping it with wide tracks like you had on your Kubota, and would you say the machine also had its limitations simply because of the tracks. For example, working on rough rocky ground is it easy to damage the tracks?

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Kubota is one of the most expensive to convert because you have to cut and widen the whole machine to get the pads on. The simple reason for this is the massive slew ring in comparison to others. Take a CAT 308 you could bolt 1 metre wide pads on with no modifications and get going. The slew ring however is about the same size as a Kx57 Kubota's, hence the CAT wouldn't be my choice for heavy attachments.

Bolting the 1 metre pads would be cheap, but it will absolutely eat track chains!

 

A properly cut/lengthen/widen on a Kubota with 900 pads with bottom rollers fitted as heavy duty top rollers, full track guides etc will be expensive, (JccEngcon will tell you) but it will last and last, even swap to the next machine by swapping tops, and won't worry overly about stumps/rocks/hardcore if just operated sensibly.

 

Hitachi Zx85 on 800 or 900 pads is about the best substitute for the real thing.

 

 

Eddie.

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Looking good, as your stuff always does, Eddie.

With your "hands on" knowledge, should you not be working/writing for a plant magazine, that would be a good read.

cheers

mth

P.S.

Matthew, what is "growan", & what area of the UK uses it?

 

Growan is what we refer to here on Dartmoor as the decomposing granite. Basically a broken down granite silt which tends to lie under the Peat here.

 

I use Growan to dress national park footpaths as it's a local product so blends in well but also once the clay type particles are washed out of it (usually after a few rain falls) it makes a very good all in one substrate for footpaths and tracks that naturally compacts well.

 

I'm sure other granite areas of the country call it by a different name?

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Can a grab and rotator set up viably be done by adding a diverter valve if the arm slew and hammer lines are both controlled off the same proportional control on the joystick which are in turn selected by depressing a button on the joystick?

 

If you simply tap into the pipework for the boom offset circuit and extend this to the dipper end with your other auxiliaries, then you can simply press the current button installed to switch from grab to rotate. No need for anything else.

 

Obviously these will be manual valves to change the flow from offset to your new extra auxiliary circuit, or you can fit your 6 way valve and a switch here to do it from the comfort of the cab.

 

 

Eddie.

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Looking good, as your stuff always does, Eddie.

With your "hands on" knowledge, should you not be working/writing for a plant magazine, that would be a good read.

cheers

mth

P.S.

Matthew, what is "growan", & what area of the UK uses it?

 

Just working speccing kit and solutions for others would do me, or Operator training that means they can actually Operate, not simply having bought a ticket!

Hopefully a few shifts left in me yet!:thumbup:

 

 

Eddie.

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If you simply tap into the pipework for the boom offset circuit and extend this to the dipper end with your other auxiliaries, then you can simply press the current button installed to switch from grab to rotate. No need for anything else.

 

Obviously these will be manual valves to change the flow from offset to your new extra auxiliary circuit, or you can fit your 6 way valve and a switch here to do it from the comfort of the cab.

 

 

Eddie.

 

Thanks for your help eddie!!!

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