Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Gray git]

Ok  will have a stab been thinking about this for awhile machine with cutting head and two men   Self powered fransport to and from site based on eight hours £130.00 / £150hr low loader at cost or by client

Fairly Bob on to what I was thinking actually, travel charged 1 direction at 50% working rate as per our other equipment when it his out on sub work. Then on top we will offer the big removal capacity of our 12"chipper on 30m³ trailer combo as I think keeping up with the merlos ability to put stuff on the floor with a 6" chipper might be a bit hopeful.

Luckily we have a very reliable haulier not far from us and I've already touched base and found the rated more reasonable than I thought.

 

[Stephen Blair]

Smaller digger, bigger cab

[Gray git]

Smaller digger, bigger cab

More room for Christmas expansion [emoji12]

[monkeybusiness]

3 hours ago, Gray git said:

 

 

At 45° fully extended not massive really as it's the 4t model and the head is quite heavy but the capacity quickly increase as you increase the angle. the 60-21 would be better but are like rocking horse poo in the UK unless you want new but as a mewp the 40-26 gave more scope for outreach.

 

Can it use its full working envelope as a mewp, or is it sensor-limited? 

What model/weight shear are you nailing on, and what headstock setup? 

Can you tow with it? Great if you can load what you cut straight into a big trailer! Great if not too - that’s a wonderful mewp range for tree work!

[monkeybusiness]

Rate wise, if it was mine I don’t think it would leave the yard for less than £1k a day unless it would save us a load of work on a priced job. 

[Gray git]

Can it use its full working envelope as a mewp, or is it sensor-limited? 
What model/weight shear are you nailing on, and what headstock setup? 
Can you tow with it? Great if you can load what you cut straight into a big trailer! Great if not too - that’s a wonderful mewp range for tree work!

It will be limited on sensors but effectively it's only the last yellow section on that load chart that's iffy for its capacity and has same capacity full 360 which some of the other models don't.
Standard merlo headstock and going westtech for the head, yes you can tow but as the whole thing is over 15 ton I'd say hills with anything more tha a light trailer with implement s in would be hard on it but need to check legality of this as not sure, would rather chip brash anyway but it could lift lid off our chip trailer on the tractor and load timber straight ontop.
Unless it's really a specific job that requires this methodology to meet sight constraints I wouldn't think you'd get a grand plus a day for this alone, we are too far north, with chipper etc yes but alone no.

[Stephen Blair]

thats Going to be so good for blitzing all the domestic back garden jobs in 1 fell swoop to get them off the list on the last Saturday of every month.  You now own a skyhook!

[dumper]

21 hours ago, Gray git said:

 

 

It will be limited on sensors but effectively it's only the last yellow section on that load chart that's iffy for its capacity and has same capacity full 360 which some of the other models don't.
Standard merlo headstock and going westtech for the head, yes you can tow but as the whole thing is over 15 ton I'd say hills with anything more tha a light trailer with implement s in would be hard on it but need to check legality of this as not sure, would rather chip brash anyway but it could lift lid off our chip trailer on the tractor and load timber straight ontop.
Unless it's really a specific job that requires this methodology to meet sight constraints I wouldn't think you'd get a grand plus a day for this alone, we are too far north, with chipper etc yes but alone no.

 

Always had problems towing with telehandler gear boxes don’t seem up to day in out towing and they don’t like heavy trailers 

[monkeybusiness]

33 minutes ago, dumper said:

Always had problems towing with telehandler gear boxes don’t seem up to day in out towing and they don’t like heavy trailers 

I had to run this up the road yesterday and wouldn’t rush to make it a regular occurrence - the Merlo definitely isn’t designed for this type of work. 

[Gray git]

Na torque converters aren't really designed for heavy pulling but it's still be nice to get a nice light trailer, even a ifor to put one of the attachment on