Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[monkeybusiness]

There's a fella selling a tidy looking JS130 for 10k - it's an old sumitomo machine but looks good for the money IMO. Haulage might ruin the job for you though.

[Billy]

Billy that's a cracking looking machine, looks like it has huge ground clearance.

 

I've still got my Cat 2.7d, I'm going to get myself a fixed felling head, my energy head is great and will do stuff a fixed 1 won't but I do loose a lot height and reach for a job like you did. Do you think adding a blade to your fixed timber gran would work or would the ram not be strong enough for the shearing.

 

 

Ground clearance seems adequate, not had it in any horrible woods etc yet though!

I doubt adding a blade to the grab would be very effective as a shear as there is a large difference in force produced by each attachment, the ram on the shear is HUGE with a 53kn grabbing/cutting force at 250bar where as my grab only has 9kn grab force so I think the results would be very disappointing.

Also the shear cuts best by getting the stems right down either side of blade close to the pivot, so most conventional grabs if adapted wouldn't leave much room for material in the prime cutting spot there. When bunching several Hawthorn stems together I sometimes needs to work the crowd to help the shear cut through them all so not sure how you'd get on with less power available.

[John Shutler]

[sjs5060]

Looks a tidy set up John. What's the trailer? Quite fancy one that style myself, is there room to carry a couple of buckets as well?

 

Thanks, ste

[John Shutler]

its a 10 ton jpm multi purpose plant trailer, yeah I recon I coukd get 2 extra buckets in as well

[Matthew Storrs]

Yes nice setup John.

 

I just bought myself a Herbst multipurpose dump trailer, if you put the digger on the other way round I can rest the bucket on the front headboard which leaves a lot of space for buckets and attachments.

[Billy]

Looks good John, what attachments have you got ?

[John Shutler]

Looks good John, what attachments have you got ?

 

Ive got a tiger cut tree shear coming for it and a flail, il probably get a fixed grab and rotator for it at some point as well

[Stephen Blair]

Well done John!

Looking forward to seeing the shear in action!

[JimE]

What would I expect to pay day rate for a 3 ton digger with a mulcher (operated etc)?

Cheers