Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Gray git]

Scratch that, nearly right, he's got a Liugong 6tonner... Page 83 of the fings wot broke these... ahem

Ha iv just spent 15min looking for that post, definitely seems to rate it and by the way @aspenbob posts in that thread his lads definitely test gear hard [emoji848]

[monkeybusiness]

4 hours ago, Gray git said:

Unfortunately due to a 16k repair bill on another machine 

Ouch! Merlo?...

[Gray git]

Ouch! Merlo?...

Merlo and turbo on one of the valtras [emoji24]

[monkeybusiness]

11 hours ago, Gray git said:

Merlo and turbo on one of the valtras

Fark... Big dollars, what went wrong with the Merlo? Something electronic/ECU based I’d guess for that dosh.

[Gray git]

Fark... Big dollars, what went wrong with the Merlo? Something electronic/ECU based I’d guess for that dosh.

All pipes and electrics up the boom decided to get in a spaghetti mess, parts weren't too bad considering it's 20 odd m and in 5 sections but some serious amount of time to pull the boom apart and refit everything which really shot up the cost.

[IronMike]

Actual live shot from when it was getting worked on.

[monkeybusiness]

On 28/12/2020 at 14:12, Gray git said:

Both very good points and ones I'd definitely considered but was after a opinion of anyone who had actually sat in one. We wouldn't be looking at return value too much as would expect any machine to be with us far longer than any hp deal.
Unfortunately due to a 16k repair bill on another machine we missed out on bobcat's 0% in November to put down on a e85 but we are in need of getting something sorted before mid January due to works requiring this size machine.
I did consider hiring to see if the second hand market calms down but getting something to take a grab with twin aux lines and any sort of guarding is close to impossible and the price for the hire over the two - three months would fairly cover the years hp repayments

I think Case are doing 0% on construction equipment at the moment. 
Availability of any machinery will be your biggest issue though.

[Stephen Blair]

[arbwork]

Araucaria araucana ?  

[Stephen Blair]

Monkey Puzzle Jeremy!

 

so yes!

 

tidy up time!