Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[treequip]

Nearly got your saw there!

 

He nearly got a @@@@@ for it too

 

To be fair, it shouldn't have been there should it

[LGP Eddie]

Not me selling so I assume it's ok to post a link up, as I spotted it had gone up for sale today via Twitter.

 

This was my original LGP Kubota, sold earlier this year by me but never even advertised, but the owner sadly never even put her to work.

 

If anyone has a genuine interest and wants to know anything then just PM me and I can fill you in on any aspect better than anyone.

 

I in all honesty should never have parted with it, but that's how it goes sometimes and the only way is supposed to be forwards.

 

You'll not get a better 8 tonner!

 

Plant Machinery, Construction Equipment, Excavators, Heavy Plant Sales - Sandhill Plant

 

Eddie.

[Tom D]

Sooo tempted, Did you ever put a harvester head on it Eddie? Oh and whats the line speed on the winch?

 

Cheers

[LGP Eddie]

No it never had a Harvesting Head on it , but was very capable with an FAE Mulcher.

 

The winch is Superwinch H30p (biggest they did until recently), not fast, but extremely powerful.(13,000kg straight line pull) It's specced for recovery really but we found it brilliant for big windblow and the like.

Plenty of cable on it approx 70metre of 19mm, but you'll know you've dragged it out! It never failed to return to the digger with whatever we hooked it to!

 

The machine was totally spoilt in every way, serviced at half intervals, always genuine Kubota parts and Fuchs Planto oils.

New Berco track chains had been fitted approx 300hrs prior to sale by MST tracks, and a few suspect rollers replaced, so undercarriage is perfect.

 

I think the new owner had only done approx 30hrs on it all summer?

 

There is all the buckets, Engcon Grading Bucket, Engcon Selector Grab and loads of bits and pieces with it.

It filled the low loader with attachments when it went!

 

Eddie.

[Tom D]

You're much more experienced with this kit than me, how do you think it would cope with a harvester head? What width was the mulched head?

 

Cheers.

[LGP Eddie]

You're much more experienced with this kit than me, how do you think it would cope with a harvester head? What width was the mulched head?

 

Cheers.

 

It'll cope easily with something like Kesla Stroke Head with limited production, but for a decent Roller Head setup you need to be at least in the 13 tonne class really in my opinion.

This is a real all rounder that will access difficult sites and get a huge amount of work done.

 

The FAE Mulching head was 1.25m wide fixed tooth.

 

 

Eddie.

[lshoran]

Hello arb diggers!

 

I've just bought this hitachi ex75ur 2001 knuckle boom excavator and am in the process of trying to set it up for tree work.

I'm hoping through a number of contacts it will be hired out either as a digger or with specialist attachments such as, grapple, rake, ripper, flail, tree sheer etc.

I would expect the tree works it would be doing mostly will be urban so the rubber tracks suited me.

I would like to have a cage fitted to protect the operator/cab and it needs piping for any hydraulic attachments.

Can anyone advise me of what certificates are needed to operate it and if I am hiring it out with an operator, what paper work is required?

Any advise would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

Lee

[LGP Eddie]

Hello arb diggers!

 

I've just bought this hitachi ex75ur 2001 knuckle boom excavator and am in the process of trying to set it up for tree work.

I'm hoping through a number of contacts it will be hired out either as a digger or with specialist attachments such as, grapple, rake, ripper, flail, tree sheer etc.

I would expect the tree works it would be doing mostly will be urban so the rubber tracks suited me.

I would like to have a cage fitted to protect the operator/cab and it needs piping for any hydraulic attachments.

Can anyone advise me of what certificates are needed to operate it and if I am hiring it out with an operator, what paper work is required?

Any advise would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Lee

 

Lee, are you going to operate this machine yourself, or offer it self drive also?

 

Do you have any of the mentioned attachments already?

 

 

Eddie.

[lshoran]

Hello Eddie,

 

I only have digging buckets, 5 tine grapple and am ordering a rake soon to get started but I've got a long list of mods and attachments I want for it.

Next job will be to have it piped for attachments and have safety guards fitted.

A tree shear (tigercut) and flail would be great to make it more specialised locally.

I would prefer to hire it out with a driver but would be ok to hire to people I know well! And I would operate it if required but will need to get qualified.

Can you advise?

 

Thanks

Lee

[LGP Eddie]

Hello Eddie,

 

I only have digging buckets, 5 tine grapple and am ordering a rake soon to get started but I've got a long list of mods and attachments I want for it.

Next job will be to have it piped for attachments and have safety guards fitted.

A tree shear (tigercut) and flail would be great to make it more specialised locally.

I would prefer to hire it out with a driver but would be ok to hire to people I know well! And I would operate it if required but will need to get qualified.

Can you advise?

 

Thanks

Lee

 

 

Being brutally honest Lee, I'd tell you to just take a little step back and have a realistic look at the carrier unit you have chosen?

 

That is a very tidy example you have there, and no doubt the fact it has the zero swing is a big attraction for the type of applications you are talking about.

 

However the parallel offset boom, really is quite specialist, and of absolutely no value in the environment you are considering targeting the machine at.

This boom will give reduced reach and lift capacity, combined with an awkward dipper ram that will be vulnerable.

 

Setting up of any auxiliary pipework properly is an expensive job, but having to configure around the parallel boom will make it even harder, plus if you really want to go the Mulcher route, that will involve even more pipework for the case drain.

 

Straightforward advice is let her go, she's a tidy example and you'll not struggle to move it I'm certain?

 

For a toe into this job you need to be thinking along the lines of the tidiest lowest houred Kubota KX161-3 or if you want the bigger one get a KX080-3 that you can afford?

 

Others will advise their favoured manufacturers and I have plenty of other candidates myself, but I'll just add why the Kubota.

 

Basically if you get the ones with the two double acting circuits, one of which is already proportional, then you are pretty much good to go?

Adding a case drain is easy on them too especially on the KX080-3 where pretty much a factory looking install is possible at minimal cost.

The Kubota's are very strong, well proven, popular with operators, very reliable, and have good residual value.

 

For your attachments, try to skip all the Grapples and cut straight to the Selector Grab. Once tried people never look back, and this will immediately give the machine a real value to people on projects.

Grapples are fine in some situations, but the comparison to being able to have a full range of movements plus rotate is night and day.

The selector grab will get you straight up and running into the job.

Stephen Blair is a perfect example on this thread of buying a well setup carrier then Selector Grab from the off, and look at the work he is achieving.

 

Tree Shears are another subject altogether, and you'd need to tell me more of your applications for my opinion on them?

 

Mulchers are another game altogether? Some just go down the converted Hedgecutter Flail head route, but to get into a full Mulching Setup is going to cost, and not something to be sending out just to anyone.

 

Guarding is simple enough, it just depends on what degree you wish to take it? My own Kubota would come under pretty much bombproof with full guarding plus all the belly plates thickened and a Marguard Windscreen for the Mulcher or Harvesting Head.

 

I'd suggest a very tidy cab frame with top guard and front screen could be easily achievable, and I know of a few companies who would be ideal for this.

 

As for getting qualified, you really need to get yourself a CPCS card to operate the machine. Some may say other schemes but the CPCS is the one almost universally accepted, and I really can't see you being on Forestry Commission sites to require FMOC training.

Cost of this will depend mostly on your previous experience.

 

Plenty of training places to attend, we have a great one down in the Staffordshire Moorlands I can put you in touch with, but a day out to see my Kubota and try all the attachments you're thinking of may be just as valuable to add to your training.

 

Obviously this is all just my opinion, but I do think you can save yourself an awful lot of time and hassle in machine preparation, by simply buying well, then having it go pretty much straight to work able to hopefully meet or exceed your clients expectations.

 

 

Eddie.