Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[sandy2210]

my jcb 803 has a sprocket as a front idler and not lost a track yet think it is/was standard as seen it on a few old jcb's

[wrsni]

No I've never seen the manual for my machine!

I jack it up, if it looks like it shouldn't depending on where I'm working, something inside my head says to give it a bit of a pump of grease or not.

 

That's what I always done in the past, but with age I'm getting less fond of wrestling a track back on at all, also the Kubota spends more time around the yard and on lanes and stuff so I decided to get a manual and check it out.

 

Firstly I never realised how much variation there is in the sag of the track depending where the join is. Then I never realised that the join is marked on the track itself and lastly I never realised when you have everything else right just how much variation in tension is effected by one pump of grease.

 

So now I keep a wee block of wood in the cab which is equal to the sag and on a fairly regular basis spin the join around to the middle of the top run, set in the block of wood to check the sag and adjust accordingly.

 

Short term it keeps the tracking as smooth as possible on all surfaces, long term should maximise the life of all drive train componentry.

[Joy Yeomans]

had a friends 22 tonne machine in this week windrowing the brash up ready to be chipped for biomass. fantastic, a little machine wouldnt have coped.

 

joy

[briquette_seller]

had a friends 22 tonne machine in this week windrowing the brash up ready to be chipped for biomass. fantastic, a little machine wouldnt have coped.

 

joy

 

What chipper you using for that?

[Joy Yeomans]

Going through a big jenz 80mm screen

[briquette_seller]

Going through a big jenz 80mm screen

 

The brash will fly through at 80mm.

 

Been chipping spruce tops going through a 3 inch diamond screen, and I struggle to keep up.

[Joy Yeomans]

Yeah fab chipped two artic loads in no time today

[Stephen Blair]

Is there a grab on that machine?

[briquette_seller]

Heaping up wood chip

[Joy Yeomans]

No fab operator just put new 12" teeth on his bucket and picked up sticks and twigs like a rake . can't beat an expert well done mark harrison for a fab job!