Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[SAM66S]

[Stephen Blair]

Mines a bit different as it's a fixed demolition grab, I can divert the bucket ram but I didn't so I could have plenty of movement so I could make proper use out the fixed grab.

If you don't have a big budget then buy the cheapest mini digger you can find and put a thumb on it.

[richy_B]

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

 

Assume I know very little about diggers/hydraulics - When you say double acting you mean the hydraulics will move two ways - forward and back for example? Would this not be the case with a 'breaker' piping?

 

Sam, what you have seems to be pretty much what I am looking for although I might go a little larger and with a full canopy (for those wet days). Do you mind if I ask how much that set up cost?

 

Stephen, I did look at at the option of just a thumb but but I really think the rotor aspect would be so much better for me in the long run, manoeuvrability wise. Budget wise I'd like to get a machine and the grab/rotor for £6-7k (ex VAT) which I know is tight but hopefully do-able.

[Stephen Blair]

Nothing wrong with that budget. A grand for grab and the rest for digger. Good luck!

[Breezeblock]

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

 

Assume I know very little about diggers/hydraulics - When you say double acting you mean the hydraulics will move two ways - forward and back for example? Would this not be the case with a 'breaker' piping?

 

 

 

 

shears and grabs require 2 double acting circuits one for l/h r/h rotation and one circuit for open close a breaker circuit is single acting with the return from the hammer going straight back to tank via a return filter there is another way of doing it if the breaker circuit is single acting though

[RichardT]

So how's a compact job like #311 piped up for grab/rotator?

[JimE]

So how's a compact job like #311 piped up for grab/rotator?

 

Hi Richard,

 

usually use the breaker line to turn the rotator, then put quick couplings in the bucket ram (as it isnt used with the grab) so that when you are using the grab you plug those lines into the grab and use the joystick to open/close the grab.

[SAM66S]

I piped mine up opposite to above as the rotate was hard to control with the foot pedal & sometimes accidentally dropped what i were grabbing from knocking the lever

[RichardT]

Right, the crowd circuit is available. Duh. Old age.

 

And a breaker line is pretty much standard fit these days?

[SAM66S]

Right, the crowd circuit is available. Duh. Old age.

 

And a breaker line is pretty much standard fit these days?

 

 

Yeah but it may only flow 1 way with a free flow return