Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[RichardT]

OK, so this thread has sent me off on a mental shopping trip which may turn real over the next few weeks.

 

For my own woodlands, so towability isn't an issue, hence 3-6T. Groundwork, firewood & thinning, clearing whin scrub, brash clearing, etc. We've got slopes, so bigger the better for stability purposes. Prices, not surprisingly, ramp up fast with size, plenty of 5-7yo 3ts with <3k hrs around the £12k mark, few decent comparable 5ts below 15k. Would love grab & rotator but unless I find one already fitted I think a fixed grab or just rake & thumb is more justifiable £ wise.

 

Couple more qs: zero-swing machines centre the mass, but presumably also lift the CoG a bit? Is a double-action hammer line pretty much std on modern builds? eg this...

 

Yanmar V1030 Mini digger

 

...seems to have 2 lines & rtn, unless I'm misinterpreting the pics. (Also steel tracks, which seem a rarity on anything sub-7+t.) Should I ever be thinking of hiring in a mower/mulcher (assuming I get a bigger machine ), I guess that's the minimum spec I'd need to run one?

 

Or I might just win the lottery and buy Eddie's all-singing, all-dancing Kubota......

[Craig.]

That yanmar looks to me to have 4 quick couplings 2 for breaker lines, may be with a valve to make them two way, and 2 going to bucket crowd ram, if this is the case it would be easy to put grab/rotator on it.

[LGP Eddie]

I can hardly believe it but my LGP Kubota is entering it's last week of service with me!

It's been a simply fantastic bit of kit and will serve the new owner well.

 

Busy to the last sorting out a real mess, and this sort of terrain is where a machine with the Engcon grab comes into it's own.

 

I got to do a bit of 'V' ditching with a 20 tonner on this site, and it's a job I really love, but had to drop a few pipes in for a road to cross first.

The Kubota handled them easily at 1275kg each despite 700kg of Engcon and grab on the end!

 

 

 

Eddie.

[Tom D]

I love that Digger Eddie, why are you selling it? I might have been interested..

[LGP Eddie]

I love that Digger Eddie, why are you selling it? I might have been interested..

 

I'll certainly miss it, but I'm having the new Dash 4 Kubota 8 tonner to replace it, with quite a few extra touches added.

It never even got advertised.

 

Eddie.

[Rich2484]

Tidy.

 

Been using a kabota on a bit of a thining, clearing job this week. Botex rotator grab. They are just perfect for getting into tight areas and have more than enough power. Been dragging whole trees out of a river with it aswell.

 

They punch well above there weight.

[Coed y Cardi]

Not exactly mine, but I drive it!

[Coed y Cardi]

One more!

[Stephen Blair]

Great pictures guys!

[Burgess]

I'll certainly miss it, but I'm having the new Dash 4 Kubota 8 tonner to replace it, with quite a few extra touches added.

It never even got advertised.

 

Eddie.

 

Is that going to be the double boom version?