Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[IVECOKID]

Hats off to anyone who can handle a micro digger- got to be the hardest of all surely?? I hired one a while back and was fairly embarrising on it to start with:blushing: i think its the lack of wristrests or something!

 

8 years I have owned my little Kobelco sk007 and what a machine , way to much power for its size and it can track in to 28" width ,amazing pics I have in places you would not expect it to get in .

Priceless kit an with a grab thumb it can lift a few bit too.

 

Ste

[Matthew Storrs]

Diggers don't depreciate much, there's the initial outlay or finance but you have to be pretty rough to loose a lot of money on them.

Better than money in the bank I think.

 

I was working out some sums on my tea break today.

I brought my Tak 125 for £13500 (inc VAT) with 3250 hours. Lets say a 3 tonner has a useful working life of 5000 hours that means I have 1750hrs of use costing me £7.7 per hour.

 

A new Tak costs £28000 (inc Vat) which divided by 5000hrs costs only £5.6 per hour. Baring in mind with a new machine you get warranty and hopefully less breakdowns in its early life. It works out cheaper to buy new.

 

Just an example and my calculations are probably flawed somewhere along the line:sneaky2:

[IVECOKID]

Diggers don't depreciate much, there's the initial outlay or finance but you have to be pretty rough to loose a lot of money on them.

Better than money in the bank I think.

 

Not wrong there for sure ............i paid £3200 (dealer price too) eight ago for micro digger and i reckon i will get that back and more with todays prices

 

 

Ste

[LGP Eddie]

Hats off to anyone who can handle a micro digger- got to be the hardest of all surely?? I hired one a while back and was fairly embarrising on it to start with:blushing: i think its the lack of wristrests or something!

 

You're not alone, I've seen some top class operators make a complete fool of themselves on my Kubota Kx008 when I had it.

I was lucky to have cut my teeth on a Pel Job Eb12 1.5 tonner, and this had the levers out in front.

 

It's just a bit of a freak, as operators can operate them no issues with side mounted servo's but throw in that excavator control pattern on levers in front of them and the wheel literally falls off!

 

If you want to see someone struggle, put them on a Backhoe with traditional sticks out in front, on an excavator pattern, it will blow their mind!

 

 

Eddie.

[Stephen Blair]

My ninja Jcb mate said the exact same! If his hands are out front then it's back hoe, by his side the servo but on the micros he was all over the place!!!

[aspenarb]

 

If you want to see someone struggle, put them on a Backhoe with traditional sticks out in front, on an excavator pattern, it will blow their mind!

 

 

Eddie.

 

That or my old 580c with foot pedals and levers

 

Bob

[sandy2210]

son is having fun just now teaching new army digger drivers on new jcb with a lever to switch options and changes the lever between each lesson

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[aspenarb]

Not ours but worthy of a post. Groundworkers on a job we are on have made the mother of all ditch forming buckets out of a digging bucket and some cutting edges. Measures 4mts across, its on a 22ton machine . Men in sheds:thumbup1:

 

Bob

 

 

 

[Stephen Blair]

Awesome!

[IVECOKID]

Saved themselves a fortune on something that might only get used once a year , great design and lightweight.

 

Ste