Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Jonathan O'Leary]

Just noticed the old sign writing was still on the bobcat, doh lol

[Stephen Blair]

Love skidsteers!!

[Jonathan O'Leary]

So do I, my old man ran a Demolition company so was driving them since I was 6, as soon as I could I jumped at getting one, got two now, the big one and a little 3ft one. Great for brush dragging on a big site or log moving

[atree]

Seen this guy Eddie?

 

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[LGP Eddie]

Seen this guy Eddie?

 

 

Yes That's John (Roboplant) from the CE Forum.

 

Top bloke, good friend and a convert to the Engcon now despite being an initial Steelwrist customer.

 

John was running a 7 tonne JCB before he came and had a visit to a wetland clearance site I was undertaking and had the opportunity to play in his own time with an LGP Tiltrotator setup.

 

One look at his Hitachi will show you he soon got a taste for it!

 

John has carved a great niche in his area with the Tree Shear, but actually takes it all the way through now to an end product with the Mus-Max Biomass Chipper setup he's purchased.

 

John has more than done his bit in the woods, and used to run a winching gang with a Muir Hill setup back in the day.

 

John and myself are the friendliest of rivals, and well known for the banter between our different choice of manufacturers and attachments.

What people don't see if the help and support we give each other freely off such Forums, and I hold John in highest regard.

 

 

Eddie.

[Burgess]

Do you argue the advantages/disadvantages of kingpost and fixed boom?

[AntTheFarmer]

They're a bloody good set of shears. I've got the TL250.........

 

I'll get the Go Pro rigged up for it's next adventure!

 

[difflock]

Do no tracked excavator manufacturers supply "extend-a-hoe" dipper arms?.

Per the comment I read in "Earthmovers" re Eddies new 8 tonne Kubota being tried with a longer dipper arm, I ud ave thought in combination with the 2-piece boom this would have been an ultra flexible/articulate set-up?

[rowan lee]

Mecalac perhaps? (Menzi for sure, though wheeled excavator rather then tracked).

[wrsni]

Do no tracked excavator manufacturers supply "extend-a-hoe" dipper arms?.

 

I imagine it would put the counter-balancing on a 360 haywire, both in the potential reach and the weight of the dipper itself bearing in mind that an extending dipper is a lot heavier than just a long stick.

 

When the Sitemasters came out some guys took the 4in1 buckets off them to put on one pieces for chips, sand, whatever, and the things were unusable such was the weight different between the extender and the standard or even long stick on the back. Even a 2wd Sitemaster could be a handful with the extending dipper and the 4in1 still on it.

 

There's always a price to pay somewhere!