Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[BunyipBen]

A timelapse video using the FAE BL1/EX  doing a quick rough mulch of an overgrown area

[BunyipBen]

 

Another video mulching with the FAE BL1/EX shot using Mavic 2 Zoom drone

 

Edited March 30, 2023 by BunyipBen

[Stephen Blair]

Ready for the next skip in the morning.

[doobin]

Got me some steel tracks on mine. £830 a side, easy enough to swap between rubbers and steels for different jobs too. 
 

Came from Astrak. 

[Stephen Blair]

What jobs will you put steels on for?.

[doobin]

21 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

What jobs will you put steels on for?.

I seem to end up doing a lot of clearance work on fairly steep hills. So ideal for that. Great for wetter jobs too. I will also be able to bolt on steel extensions I will make up to give more flotation, save getting the bog mats out. 

[Stephen Blair]

I seem to always be on a hill and sliding around especially when facing downhill digging or pulling timber in up, might get a set, it’s the thought of changing them over.  I threw my first track on the Bobcat yesterday, had it 2 years, forgot what a ball ache it can be to get back on, the grease nipple is a pita to get to being tucked into the side too, then I didn’t have any sockets, or grease gun! 😂luckily strong nephew wrestled it on.  

[doobin]

1 hour ago, Stephen Blair said:

I seem to always be on a hill and sliding around especially when facing downhill digging or pulling timber in up, might get a set, it’s the thought of changing them over.  I threw my first track on the Bobcat yesterday, had it 2 years, forgot what a ball ache it can be to get back on, the grease nipple is a pita to get to being tucked into the side too, then I didn’t have any sockets, or grease gun! 😂luckily strong nephew wrestled it on.  

On my own (on concrete) it took twenty minutes per side to swap them from rubber to steel. Battery grease gun and 90 degree impact wrench for the nut sped it up a lot I suspect. I'm expecting putting rubber back on to take a little longer. If you are on your own with a rubber track I like to jam the track motor on a little with a block of wood and then ease the track over the sprocket with a long bar.

 

I really think the time taken to swap tracks will be time well spent, plus you can block steel track jobs together on one week to save time. The difference in traction on hills is insane.

 

Call Astrak- the E27Z you have has a slightly shorter track frame, so you might even be under £800 per track. At least you know they will fit the rollers and idler now I've taken the plunge.

 

Also- steel tracks are great for tracking in stone, which I would imagine you have a lot of up in Scotland.

[Stephen Blair]

Astrak gave a good service for me before, I think I’ll give them a go.  Will they put extra stress on the motors?

[doobin]

Can’t see that they would

as it’s still just laying a track. Motors have relief valves if things get too hard, you will probably find it just relieves rather than spins the track due to the extra traction. 
 

you want to run them with a fair bit more slack than the rubbers though I’ve found. 

Edited April 29, 2023 by doobin