Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[monkeybusiness]

8 hours ago, Gray git said:

Few little upgrades for the E85, some beautifully designed guarding fitted to help keep the glass in 1 piece and radiator hole free and then we have gone and blown a whole wodge of cash on a GMT 35 with total tree control for it to speed up and make safer felling a lot of skinny tall roadside ash we are dealing with at the moment.

Is that guarding from Hywel Evans? Looks ace!

[Gray git]

Is that guarding from Hywel Evans? Looks ace!

No, unfortunately he just didn't seem to have time to do one as concentrating on the smaller machines.
Had Mark Jibson Engineering make it for me in the end with a few tweaks to make it fit and follow the cab lines a bit tighter.

[monkeybusiness]

1 hour ago, Gray git said:

No, unfortunately he just didn't seem to have time to do one as concentrating on the smaller machines.
Had Mark Jibson Engineering make it for me in the end with a few tweaks to make it fit and follow the cab lines a bit tighter.

It looks a very nice job!

[swinny]

Is a 1.8t big enough to run a grab and rotator? 

 

Currently run a 1.5t which only weighs 1350kg! With a fixed grab and think it's awesome! 

 

Running this track base size I can take digger and grinder to a job at same time etc..... 

 

Just wondering if the 1.8t is a upgrade and fit for the grab and rotator or they're just to heavy for the machine..... Two speed tracking be nice also!!!!

 

So it's either newer 1.8t and move the little Volvo on or keep the Volvo and buy a bigger 2.5t-3 t machine..... 

 

Don't have loads of space or brass either 

[Matthew Storrs]

2.8t will be way better and far more planted. 1.8t will do it but got to be realistic in your expectations- you loose stacking height by adding the rotator. And you’ll be working at far reach most of the time to avoided twating the boom when rotating. Personally I’d forget the rotator on the 1.8t and leave that until you get 2.5t plus size. 1.8t is still a very useful tool with a fixed grab to be fair.

[Matthew Storrs]

Just got this little fixed grab for my 1.8t and it’s pretty handy. Obviously for timber work you wouldn’t have the plates welded to the tines but still. The photo with the fence posts are 6-7” strainer posts to give an idea of capacity

[topchippyles]

1.8 ton takeuchi or yanmar will piss it. The bobcats in that class i find are under powered. 

[doobin]

7 hours ago, topchippyles said:

1.8 ton takeuchi or yanmar will piss it. The bobcats in that class i find are under powered. 

Stick to carpentry mate….🙄

The E19 placed the sleepers in the second photo two at a time. The E27 pisses all over it for clearance work, but if it won’t fit, then I’m really glad to have the option to put the grab/rotator on the smaller machine. I do run a grapple under the E19 too which is much lighter and nimble. 
 

I don’t think I’d bother on an older 1.5t though- I’d stick with a grapple. The E19 is very planted but a grab/rotator is a lot of stack height and weight. 

No machine that size will ‘piss it’- you have to think carefully about how to get the best out of it. 
 

Photo of E27 included for size reference. 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by doobin

[doobin]

7 hours ago, Matthew Storrs said:

Just got this little fixed grab for my 1.8t and it’s pretty handy. Obviously for timber work you wouldn’t have the plates welded to the tines but still. The photo with the fence posts are 6-7” strainer posts to give an idea of capacity

Odd looking grab, what make? 

Edited July 29, 2021 by doobin

[swinny]

What's the older Kubota kh66 etc like? Spotted one the other day that will be coming up for sale..... or wondered if I should just go a lot newer. This old kh66 done nowt though and that's a 2.8t

Edited July 29, 2021 by swinny