Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Malus]

I wouldn't want to heat something like a tine unless I knew it had never been and didn't need to be heat treated. It's amazing how steels properties can be changed by heat - chuck a file in the log burner and see how it performs the next morning. It won't cut anything but you'll be able to bend it back on itself. But more to the point I didn't have a heat source on me and had a job to finish.

 

To be fair I wasn't blaming the tools and nor was I abusing the grab. Just interested to see who else has bent tines and how. If I had seen the tine was stuck in the log I would have put it down with a bit more care and not slewed away until it was free. Accidents happen and farming and forestry isn't exactly kind on tools! 

 

 

[Malus]

Thinking about it if the tines etc are made from hardox or some heat treated steel they are probably treated in sheets. Then you've got all the cutting and welding processes putting a lot of heat into the whole lot. Can't imagine they fabricate then heat treat? Then there's air hardening steels, I think chainsaw bars are air hardening. 

[richy_B]

How do people transport larger (5-8t) arb diggers?  Can you use an agri tractor and plant trailer if you are mainly doing tree shear work / vegetation work? 

[John Shutler]

1 minute ago, richy_B said:

How do people transport larger (5-8t) arb diggers?  Can you use an agri tractor and plant trailer if you are mainly doing tree shear work / vegetation work? 

I move mine with one of my tractors and a low loader trailer. I live and work in the new forest though so might be a bit different round your way

[doobin]

11 minutes ago, richy_B said:

How do people transport larger (5-8t) arb diggers?  Can you use an agri tractor and plant trailer if you are mainly doing tree shear work / vegetation work? 

Currently people are getting away with winging it. Very little enforcement and indeed the law itself isn’t totally clear. 

[carlos]

On 25/10/2023 at 08:18, Scotty2809 said:

some nice switchbacks there... 

May i ask where this is? My Mrs is a big rider, also loves dirt jumping and gets a hand in digging and building at the local spot. 

 

my dream job!!! nice work, they are starting to put a few trails like that in over here in ireland.

[aspenarb]

LG still out there doing its thing, raking out and burning rather a lot of Gorse atm

 

[doobin]

11 hours ago, aspenarb said:

LG still out there doing its thing, raking out and burning rather a lot of Gorse atm

 

How many hours are you up to on that? Any issues?

[billpierce]

Any advice please- 

Want some sort grab for my kx41-2 1.7t.

 

Option 1. Simple straight cheap grab, fixed, can't rotate - £260

 

Option 2. Cheap kellfri grab, rotates, hangs on a swing link bracket so all floppy. £1200

 

Option 3 the above but fixed I.e no swing link- requires some extra hydraulic plumbing (maybe rob the boom slew?) . Increases reach and brash grabbing ability?  1200 plus hydraulic messing on. 

 

I'm not experienced enough to know the major advantages/disadvantages. Would appreciate advice etc.

[monkeybusiness]

A fixed (ie non-swing) rotating grab gives massively more control and dexterity than any other type BUT is subjected to a great deal more forces than one that swings, so needs to be used with a degree of mechanical sympathy and built as strongly as possible. For the money suggested above I’d probably consider the Kelfri free swinger, as I’m not sure how well a cheap grab would stand up to being fixed onto a digger.