Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[jonnygurkha]

I joined the club today. After the advice on this thread I have taken the plunge and bought my first arb digger, a 2008 Takeuchi TB016 with 2900 hours. Collecting next week[emoji3]

[Stephen Blair]

Well done Jonny!

[LGP Eddie]

Many Congratulations, you’ll not go wrong with that, low on the hours and all there.?

That’s all your weekends gone at mates houses for a start!?

 

 

Eddie.

[jonnygurkha]

[emoji23]yes I can hear the ‘could you just’ requests coming in already! Thanks for all the good advice

[LGP Eddie]

7 minutes ago, jonnygurkha said:

yes I can hear the ‘could you just’ requests coming in already! Thanks for all the good advice

Manual online here, and this is the bit of information that’s caused some nightmares!

How to switch from single acting auxiliary for breaker use to two way for Grab, Auger etc.

 

http://www.hireone.net/images/downloads/TB016-operators-manual.pdf

 

 

Eddie

 

[monkeybusiness]

Any sign of the Incredible Hulk yet Eddie? Have you had a chance to use it in anger? 

[LGP Eddie]

1 hour ago, monkeybusiness said:

Any sign of the Incredible Hulk yet Eddie? Have you had a chance to use it in anger? 

Done a bit of shaking down with it this week, bloody freezing!

Awaiting another piece of the attachment setup from Holland now.

It’s a fair thing, hell of a reach for a wheeled machine.

 

 

 

Eddie.

[monkeybusiness]

Superb! Can’t wait to see some action shots!

[Conor Wright]

7 hours ago, jonnygurkha said:

I joined the club today. After the advice on this thread I have taken the plunge and bought my first arb digger, a 2008 Takeuchi TB016 with 2900 hours. Collecting next week

well may she wear!

[LGP Eddie]

Just some images of the evolution on an Intermercato Grapple Saw for a 13 tonne Doosan over the past 12 months.

 

Basically when it arrived there was virtually no room to add the extra valve /pipework required into the head bracket.

The worm drive motor was sticking out at the rear blind side for the Operator, begging to be knocked off.

It generally looked like an octopus was bursting out of it!

Several other bits and pieces in how it performed, not something you’d want to take to work.

 

Version two threw up issues again, simply because who did the mods didn’t take the time to test it.

The two position type head bracket I prefer was thrown in the mix here.

 

Time to send it up over the border to the man who sorts all my kit, and the latest version is now back at work.

 

Getting there now, going to be one last version after this to give it the production look/finish and hopefully an off the shelf unit that’s fit for work, tested on the front line.

 

Plenty of other setups out there, but many have had great success with the Intermercato range, and it would be nice to get a readily available, cost effective option that actually works real world.

 

Version 1

 

Version 2 

 

Version 2

 

Latest Version

 

Latest version 

 

Looking something like now.

 

 

Eddie.