Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[felixthelogchopper]

Private rd on an estate mate:biggrin:

 

Ah, I thought you were getting careless in your old age.

[Matthew Storrs]

Nice work Steve. Its nice being able to reach over the fence to lift logs over and think that would have taken an half an hour to do that by hand. I think once you've had a digger and grab on jobs like that you'll never look back.

C'mon felix- where's your pictures?!

Been mud bogging in mine today- laying brash mats everywhere so I can track over it. Its that wet I pushed an 8ft strainer post into the ground with just the bucket!

[Stephen Blair]

I've done loads of jobs like this by hand.

It would of taken 2 guys a very hard shift, and they would make more mess walking back and forth all day compared to the machine.

My jobs will be getting done to suit the machine now.

[felixthelogchopper]

Nice work Steve. Its nice being able to reach over the fence to lift logs over and think that would have taken an half an hour to do that by hand. I think once you've had a digger and grab on jobs like that you'll never look back.

C'mon felix- where's your pictures?!

Been mud bogging in mine today- laying brash mats everywhere so I can track over it. Its that wet I pushed an 8ft strainer post into the ground with just the bucket!

 

Your old one has just been doing normal diggery things. The nearest it has come to Arb Digger activity was tidying up a pile of woodchip that was tipped today.

[RobRainford]

Utilities are working on pipes under our field and they have a 22 ton machine on site. I asked him to spread my pile out a bit. Makes life a lot easier and I can find all the ready to split logs at the bottom!

 

I want one like yours Steve. Would be mighty handy on lots of jobs!

 

 

 

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[teepeeat]

Utilities are working on pipes under our field and they have a 22 ton machine on site. I asked him to spread my pile out a bit. Makes life a lot easier and I can find all the ready to split logs at the bottom!

 

I want one like yours Steve. Would be mighty handy on lots of jobs!

 

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:thumbup:bet that took him no time at all with that beast - wouldnt want to even think about how long that would have taken with a small machine let alone by hand

All about having the right tool for the job, or in this case knowing someone near by who has the right tool and asking nicely

[Daniël Bos]

What would a three ton machine lift, say at half reach?

I have some oak stems to load onto a trailer and was wondering just how much machine I'd need to hire?

[Stephen Blair]

Not sure, there will be a graph somewhere in the manual.

You can jack the front up a fair bit with the blade, also lift 1 end on first and then shove it on. There is certainly a knack at getting the most out of the machine.

The main lift is on the boom, so the closer you can get the better to what your lifting onto.

[Matthew Storrs]

What would a three ton machine lift, say at half reach?

I have some oak stems to load onto a trailer and was wondering just how much machine I'd need to hire?

 

My 3 ton takeuchi will lift a 850kg dumpy bag of gravel in closeish, at half reach I'd say about 500kg won't be a problem, full reach 3-400kg

[doobin]

What would a three ton machine lift, say at half reach?

I have some oak stems to load onto a trailer and was wondering just how much machine I'd need to hire?

 

By the time you've messed around putting a loop around the stems and getting them to balance, you'll wish you'd bunged the local farmer twenty quid to lift them on with his loader tractor.

 

Even if you find a 3.5t with a grab to hire (not common) they do not excel at lifting very heavy weights up high on to something like a trailer.

 

How big is the oak?