Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[LeeGray]

3 hours ago, Matthew Storrs said:

It looks the same length as my red multi purpose dump trailer I use for moving my 3 tonner around. The total bed length is 12ft and I could just fit a 5-6t in there with arm out the back, I can also fit it in with the arm out the front with the bucket resting on the headboard- I prefer it this way as the bulk of the digger is over the trailer wheels- not on the hitch of the tractor. I think a mog doesn’t take hitch weight as well as a tractor either...

What trailer is that Matthew..6t, 8t? Looks very handy size 

[Matthew Storrs]

1 hour ago, LeeGray said:

What trailer is that Matthew..6t, 8t? Looks very handy size 

It’s plated at 10,000kg gross and it weighs 2.5t so 7500kg payload. The Herbst website only says 6t though so not really sure which is right. Anyway it carries weight well and is quite heavily built, 6mm sides and floor. it’s 12ftx7ft and for me this size was perfect as could still get it over the old narrow Dartmoor bridges/lanes. If I’d have gone for bigger I’d have filled it and felt sorry for my poor 85hp tractor!

 

you might be able to make out my protech post driver tucked down alongside the digger- I can get it all on and still fit 200meters worth of stock fencing/posts etc around the digger-strainer posts I slide under the digger itself.

Edited June 8, 2019 by Matthew Storrs

[monkeybusiness]

1 hour ago, Matthew Storrs said:

It’s plated at 10,000kg gross and it weighs 2.5t so 7500kg payload. The Herbst website only says 6t though so not really sure which is right. Anyway it carries weight well and is quite heavily built, 6mm sides and floor. it’s 12ftx7ft and for me this size was perfect as could still get it over the old narrow Dartmoor bridges/lanes. If I’d have gone for bigger I’d have filled it and felt sorry for my poor 85hp tractor!

 

you might be able to make out my protech post driver tucked down alongside the digger- I can get it all on and still fit 200meters worth of stock fencing/posts etc around the digger-strainer posts I slide under the digger itself.

I reckon my 6 tonner would fit in there perfectly... 

[Matthew Storrs]

35 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

I reckon my 6 tonner would fit in there perfectly... 

If I had the dosh I’d agree wholeheartedly with you!

[LeeGray]

33 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

I reckon my 6 tonner would fit in there perfectly... 

I fancy a trailer like that and something like your 6 tonner.  Perfect set up for me but don’t think I could charge enough to cover the cost above a 3ton.  Beats an old grain trailer that’s for sure.

[LeeGray]

Just now, Matthew Storrs said:

If I had the dosh I’d agree wholeheartedly with you!

snap!

[Matthew Storrs]

4 hours ago, LeeGray said:

I fancy a trailer like that and something like your 6 tonner.  Perfect set up for me but don’t think I could charge enough to cover the cost above a 3ton.  Beats an old grain trailer that’s for sure.

It’s a hard situation for sure. I’m in a similar boat and go round in circles over the best machines to have. 1.8t is too small for most of my work- yet I have one anyway just to cover all bases small jobs and narrow access work, then my 3 tonner is the bread and butter machine- doing probably 70% of my workload, but then I cringe a bit at some of the jobs I’ve done with it where it would be comfortable 5-6 ton or wheel digger territory, anyway decided to just bite the bullet and get the 5 tonner but find myself in a slightly ridiculous situation and a one man band/operator with 3 diggers, just so I always have the right machine for the job yet the other two sit idle- Im rather under the opinion that it’s better for me to have 3 reasonably tidy machines which have done most of their depreciating vs just having one lovely new one that will have limits either side of the size spectrum...

[LeeGray]

20 minutes ago, Matthew Storrs said:

It’s a hard situation for sure. I’m in a similar boat and go round in circles over the best machines to have. 1.8t is too small for most of my work- yet I have one anyway just to cover all bases small jobs and narrow access work, then my 3 tonner is the bread and butter machine- doing probably 70% of my workload, but then I cringe a bit at some of the jobs I’ve done with it where it would be comfortable 5-6 ton or wheel digger territory, anyway decided to just bite the bullet and get the 5 tonner but find myself in a slightly ridiculous situation and a one man band/operator with 3 diggers, just so I always have the right machine for the job yet the other two sit idle- Im rather under the opinion that it’s better for me to have 3 reasonably tidy machines which have done most of their depreciating vs just having one lovely new one that will have limits either side of the size spectrum...

Definitely prefer having lots of machines to employing labour or one new machine..idle digger sat in yard doesn’t cost much. Maclean’s have got a lovely 8t tak with an engcon on if your same would pull it, think you could put 1000 hrs on it and not loose much. 

[Matthew Storrs]

4 minutes ago, LeeGray said:

Definitely prefer having lots of machines to employing labour or one new machine..idle digger sat in yard doesn’t cost much. Maclean’s have got a lovely 8t tak with an engcon on if your same would pull it, think you could put 1000 hrs on it and not loose much. 

Yes, I saw that. All their Taks they have came from a drainage/landscape company who specialise in golf course and sports pitches. It’s actually that TB250 on steels that I have my eye on, I think 5 ton will be better as can fit it in my trailer, 8 ton becomes haulage job for me- last time I had a 8.5t Kubota behind the Same it was all up weight of 12ton and felt a bit like the tail waging the dog!

[Matthew Storrs]

@doobin. https://www.bobwild.co.uk/equipment/mini-excavators.html

 

These chaps seem to have a tidy selection of machine- that hitachi looks tidy- thinking paint job looking at undercarriage but never less looks pretty straight and together- It’s a great machine the zx27