Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Gray git]

Spotted this strange boom set up on my way home tonight which seems to giv a heck of a reach but then still allow for close in work without a stupidly high boom, bet it'd be good for a small mulcher head on bankings.

 

http://www.dryadarb.co.uk

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Similar set up to the old jcb powerslides

[Gray git]

Used 1 of those in the late 90s as a harvester, absolutely horrible machine by modern standards.

 

http://www.dryadarb.co.uk

[LGP Eddie]

Similar set up to the old jcb powerslides [ATTACH]209459[/ATTACH]

 

That is my old Grey Cab 814 Powerslide, and I'd have another tidy one in a heartbeat, great machine.

 

 

Eddie.

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That is my old Grey Cab 814 Powerslide, and I'd have another tidy one in a heartbeat, great machine.

 

 

 

 

 

Eddie.

 

 

Small world came up on google images, remember having a go on one at a jcb driving day when I was about 14/15

[Gray git]

That is my old Grey Cab 814 Powerslide, and I'd have another tidy one in a heartbeat, great machine.[emoji106]

 

Eddie.

Really, the one I used was awful, didn't help the power slide didn't realy work so you shifted it in n out with the dipper, very little slew power and always overheating the hydraulic system

 

http://www.dryadarb.co.uk

[LGP Eddie]

Really, the one I used was awful, didn't help the power slide didn't realy work so you shifted it in n out with the dipper, very little slew power and always overheating the hydraulic system

 

Dryad Arbor-Artists | Tree Surgeon Darlington

 

That one pictured was sold by me to a good friend and I continued to operate it for him on and off.

The work it achieved for him was incredible and only two burst hoses in around 5 years. He moved it on to a local farmer for almost the same money.

It was in great condition and the powerslide is a great feature when setup correctly.

 

This only applies to the grey cab versions which were really JCB's last roll of the dice before deciding to simply buy Japanese engineering and badge it.

Crazy thing is with all Rexroth hydraulics, Perkins 6 cylinder engine side mounted for incredibly easy maintenance, powerslide and high seating position the last machines at least in my opinion were brilliant to own and operate.

Never been a better ditching machine since.

 

 

 

Eddie.

[LGP Eddie]

Good article featuring a modern take on the Powerslide, and fans of the JCB 814 too!

 

Draining the land | EARTHMOVERS MAGAZINE

 

Eddie.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Used 1 of those in the late 90s as a harvester, absolutely horrible machine by modern standards.

 

Dryad Arbor-Artists | Tree Surgeon Darlington

 

With a Lako head by any chance?!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

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