Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Nick Connell]

I've just bought this hedge cutter to go on my Kubota kx-030-4-GL hi spec and you can't trim and track at all which makes it useless for cutting the top of a hedge. Is there any way round it to be able to track and trim?

[Matthew Storrs]

56 minutes ago, Nick Connell said:

I've just bought this hedge cutter to go on my Kubota kx-030-4-GL hi spec and you can't trim and track at all which makes it useless for cutting the top of a hedge. Is there any way round it to be able to track and trim?

I’m fairly sure not I’m afraid. Tracking takes a lot of the hydraulic requirements thus leaving very little available for auxiliaries. 

[richy_B]

5 hours ago, Matthew Storrs said:

I’m fairly sure not I’m afraid. Tracking takes a lot of the hydraulic requirements thus leaving very little available for auxiliaries. 

Other than running the hedge off an auxiliary unit (beaver power pack or something) I think Matt is right.  

[woody paul]

7 hours ago, Nick Connell said:

I've just bought this hedge cutter to go on my Kubota kx-030-4-GL hi spec and you can't trim and track at all which makes it useless for cutting the top of a hedge. Is there any way round it to be able to track and trim?

Don't track and cut, swing and cut is the answer as it shows in most promo videos of hedge cutters like that. 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, richy_B said:

Other than running the hedge off an auxiliary unit (beaver power pack or something) I think Matt is right.  

This was my first thought too, even though I was not aware you couldn't track and cut. It probably only draws a few hp and a 5hp power pack for my jussi only cost 500 quid IIRC.

[monkeybusiness]

Does anyone know how easy/hard it is to add an extra hydraulic pump to a digger engine for just this reason? 

[BunyipBen]

You could look at priority valves that switch the hydraulic priority to the auxiliaries first then what is left can go to tracking

[aspenarb]

11 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

Does anyone know how easy/hard it is to add an extra hydraulic pump to a digger engine for just this reason? 

Yes, its what we do for running mulching heads. Bolting the pump on is normally the easy bit, cooling, supply pipes and filtration are normally the biggest headache to locate/house.

[monkeybusiness]

8 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

Yes, its what we do for running mulching heads. Bolting the pump on is normally the easy bit, cooling, supply pipes and filtration are normally the biggest headache to locate/house.

Do you just run a belt driven pump off the front Bob? Make up a bracket etc and nail it on it is it somehow sandwiched with the main engine driven pump? 
Doesn’t the digger’s existing oil-cooler keep up? I assume you use the same hydraulic tank (totally understand the reasoning behind additional filtration though). 

[youngsbury]

Maybe a silly question but Is there any way to divert the high speed tracking hydraulic flow when switched on to provide extra flow to the head !!