Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Matthew Storrs]

13 minutes ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

I've gone off hiring because the man who I hire it off sent me it with worn out tracks and one of them had a rip in it when he picked it back up he's tried saying I've done it and I owe him 458 for a new track and we keep having words about it but to me it isn't my problem so he's tried being clever and it's backfired I'm gonna phone my bobcat dealer tomorrow and see what I can about rather a e17 or e19 

When you say specialist attachments what's the best to start off with I know I need a geith quick hitch with buckets and a tilting grading bucket but what else? Will a 1.7 tonner run a flail? 

Cheers for the rates I appreciate them 

 

Jack 

One step at a time with attachments- and start with the basic ‘manual’ attachments otherwise you can end up spending thousands on stuff that’s sits around rusting. I’d start with basic things like a root ripper/ decent rake, fixed grab etc- all stuff that makes your machine more versatile enables you to do tidy efficient work, after that you’ll get a feel for other attachments and which ones are really worth having.

[doobin]

2 minutes ago, Matthew Storrs said:

can end up spending thousands on stuff that’s sits around rusting.

You mean like my land rake and clay spade? Used once and never respectively ?

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

13 minutes ago, doobin said:

Yeah, hire kit is always shagged. Unless it’s from somewhere like travis Perkins, then it’s just a rip off. Far better to own. 

 

If you can sign with bobcat before the end of the month it’s 5 years 0%. 

 

Had a price for an e19 with cab last week, £18.5k. E17 canopy would be a fair bit cheaper I should think. 

 

I like ratchet type hitches like the hardford wedgelock. Keeps everything tight. 

 

A ripper tooth is always useful.

 

Flail, no, not really. Sort of, but not much use. Just don’t have the flow. 

 

Get at your buckets with blades and teeth you can swap about. Incredibly useful. 

 

Get at as many buckets etc as you can on the finance deal. I had 7 buckets with my first digger. 

 

How did I forget? GET A GRAPPLE!! A must for any clearance work. Over half my work is grab work. 

Cheers for the info I'll be on the phone tomorrow depending on prices and getting accepted hopefully I'll have one ASAP with them hitches can you get them through bobcat? 

 

With buckets I ideally need a 6"  12" 18" 24" digging buckets & a 36" grading bucket and ideally a riddle bucket then a ripper tooth 

 

A grapple as in fixed or hydraulic? 

 

I know I'm asking a million questions but the salesman would say I need everything then more where as you are telling me what I need in reality 

 

Jack 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

18 minutes ago, Matthew Storrs said:

One step at a time with attachments- and start with the basic ‘manual’ attachments otherwise you can end up spending thousands on stuff that’s sits around rusting. I’d start with basic things like a root ripper/ decent rake, fixed grab etc- all stuff that makes your machine more versatile enables you to do tidy efficient work, after that you’ll get a feel for other attachments and which ones are really worth having.

Cheers ? the most important thing to me is the tilting grading bucket for digging raft founds I want to get into clearance work aswell now to extend my workload hopefully so want to know as much as possible ?

 

Jack 

[doobin]

4 minutes ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Cheers for the info I'll be on the phone tomorrow depending on prices and getting accepted hopefully I'll have one ASAP with them hitches can you get them through bobcat? 

 

With buckets I ideally need a 6"  12" 18" 24" digging buckets & a 36" grading bucket and ideally a riddle bucket then a ripper tooth 

 

A grapple as in fixed or hydraulic? 

 

I know I'm asking a million questions but the salesman would say I need everything then more where as you are telling me what I need in reality 

 

Jack 

Grapple for a 1.7t is nice and light. My hydraulic grab is much heavier, more suited to the 2.7t. 

 

Id have a 9” bucket too. Yes bobcat can get the buckets from the manufacturer and add them to the finance deal. They might try to convince you to have a whites hitch, but can get hardford too. 

[doobin]

You could always have a power tilt quick hitch and be able to tilt any bucket, but not cheap. 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

9 minutes ago, doobin said:

Grapple for a 1.7t is nice and light. My hydraulic grab is much heavier, more suited to the 2.7t. 

 

Id have a 9” bucket too. Yes bobcat can get the buckets from the manufacturer and add them to the finance deal. They might try to convince you to have a whites hitch, but can get hardford too. 

You really do like your buckets ehh ? but I know what you mean I forgot about 9" tbh and hardford hitch ill write it down do you just use bobcat buckets or have you a preferred brand I've only ever used geith so don't know of any others really 

 

Jack 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

13 minutes ago, doobin said:

You could always have a power tilt quick hitch and be able to tilt any bucket, but not cheap. 

Has that got the rams on the sides? Wouldn't be be too clumbersome for the 6" bucket trenching would it? If not it'd be worthwhile looking at it ? 

 

Jack 

[dig-dug-dan]

7 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Has that got the rams on the sides? Wouldn't be be too clumbersome for the 6" bucket trenching would it? If not it'd be worthwhile looking at it ? 

 

Jack 

Try to get digbits buckets and hitches if you can. Far  better than harfords imho.

I would say the 9 and 12inch buckets are the least used out of all of mine,,so don't stress about them too much.

[Matthew Storrs]

7 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Has that got the rams on the sides? Wouldn't be be too clumbersome for the 6" bucket trenching would it? If not it'd be worthwhile looking at it ? 

 

Jack 

Powetilt hitch  will swing the bucket 180deg whereas the tilting buckets only get the bucket at a 45 deg angle.

i have a powertilt on my 1.8t tak- it’s quite nice as its clutter free but I don’t keep it on all the time as it’s only on a semi quick hitch so doesn’t work will weld on pins attachments etc. Use a Harford wedgelock mostly.