Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[woody paul]

1 hour ago, william127 said:

The other good things about a thumb are the fact that you can always have it with you, and they are so cheap that if you decide to upgrade to a grab you have only spent a couple of hundred quid on something that will come in useful for other jobs anyway! 

So can you use thump mount for strut for grab strut or do you have to add another. 

[doobin]

14 minutes ago, woody paul said:

So can you use thump mount for strut for grab strut or do you have to add another. 

Doubtful. Where the brace stay is mounted is particular to each attachment. Easy enough to weld on though. This was changing the grapple to the new machine- making sure the ram doesn’t ground out extended/closed and with dipper ram extended/closed. I have a different ram for fitting it to the micro as well. 

Edited February 20, 2021 by doobin

[Blake@waveney]

Gutted to say the least after a long wait including past 1st feb original delivery date got told today the dealer can not get the machine they promised. 

[doobin]

12 hours ago, Blake@waveney said:

Gutted to say the least after a long wait including past 1st feb original delivery date got told today the dealer can not get the machine they promised. 

I reckon there’s a lot of that going around. Think you’ve dodged a bullet though personally. As you have no access restrictions, you don’t need expanding tracks with the lower ground clearance that entails, especially with your soft banks. Consider stepping up from 2.4 to 2.7t on a proper excavator X frame. 

[jonnygurkha]

Depends how high your trailer is and how heavy your timbers are really! If you need maximum height and minimum weight of attachment a thumb would be best, but if you have plenty of height/weight to spare a grab would be more efficient.
I had a thumb on my kubota kx36-3 and that was not as good a machine as a tb016, I lifted and shifted hundreds of tons of timber with it, including some far far too heavy lumps! 
I started out using my ripper tooth as my bucket for lifting but I switched to these RSL bolt on teeth on a 9 inch bucket and that was much much better.
The other good things about a thumb are the fact that you can always have it with you, and they are so cheap that if you decide to upgrade to a grab you have only spent a couple of hundred quid on something that will come in useful for other jobs anyway! 
 

I think I’m swaying towards your suggestion of a thumb with a 6” bucket and some of those teeth. Did you go for the RSL hydraulic thumb? It looks fairly decent to my untrained eye. Thanks for all the advice from everyone [emoji106]

[Blake@waveney]

14 hours ago, doobin said:

I reckon there’s a lot of that going around. Think you’ve dodged a bullet though personally. As you have no access restrictions, you don’t need expanding tracks with the lower ground clearance that entails, especially with your soft banks. Consider stepping up from 2.4 to 2.7t on a proper excavator X frame. 

Things always happen for a reason just really bad for dealer to do it this way. Anyway looking at something else now so will see. 

[doobin]

I feel lucky to have got fleet renewal sorted last year, everything is sub 3 year old now.  Let my outgoing 1.7t go a bit cheap in hindsight, but then I bought the new one cheap too going by today’s prices. Swings and roundabouts. 

[william127]

16 hours ago, jonnygurkha said:

I think I’m swaying towards your suggestion of a thumb with a 6” bucket and some of those teeth. Did you go for the RSL hydraulic thumb? It looks fairly decent to my untrained eye. Thanks for all the advice from everyone

I had the rsl non hydraulic thumb, very sturdy.  

I can never decide whether I'd prefer a hydraulic one or not, certainly be better at picking things up but looses a lot of the simplicity benefits 

[topchippyles]

On 20/02/2021 at 08:30, jonnygurkha said:

Advice wanted please. I have a TB016 and I’m wondering if it would be up to the job of loading Ash cordwood into a tractor trailer and then onto a processor? The cordwood is probably 8-12” diameter. Firstly do you think the machine would lift that weight and secondly if so, should I go for a bucket and thumb arrangement or bite the bullet and get a grab with rotator? TIA

Your machine is more than up to the job and a thumb grab will work no problem. If its just for loading cordwood onto a trailer no need to go to great expense. 

[Gray git]

Some amount of hydraulic power on site yesterday.

Looking forward to giving tidy up a go with this on the E85.