Show us your Arb Diggers please.

[Billy]

A hook loader would be ideal for this sort of thing with a bin for chipping into/ dropping stuff into with machine and a low bin for transporting plant.

[skyhuck]

A hook loader would be ideal for this sort of thing with a bin for chipping into/ dropping stuff into with machine and a low bin for transporting plant.

 

Until you see what they weigh

[AntTheFarmer]

Morning all.....all the b's today! Busy having a bank holiday burn up with the Bobcat!! 👍 and now for breakfast!

 

[Melodeon]

Here's my Yanmar ViO50 with recently attached Intermercato brash grapple and rotator.

[IVECOKID]

Belting machine they are ,I was two minds last year to buy this one but again transporting was my issue.

This machine was mint and tight has a nuns ....

 

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[Billy]

Until you see what they weigh

 

 

What do they weigh? I want to convert my tipper into one it currently has a tare weight of 9900kg give or take with a crane and 20M chip box. It rarely weighs more than 16t when full, leaving 2 ton spare. I presume the hook gear wouldn't weigh more than that ?

[Stephen Blair]

I will just use the local haulier , I am finding new work where the machine is onsite weeks at a time, so a couple of hundred quid onto the job or absorbed is no biggy .

[Matthew Storrs]

I'm the same as you Stephen, been working with my 3 tonner for 18 months now- I couldn't live without this size of machine given how many jobs it has been used where access is restricted, but now I think I could use a 5-8 tonner a fair bit too. I also think it could really expand my options for work too and hiring kit has problems written all over it. IMO after 3 ton you start to get a lot more metal for your money, transport is also an issue for me- I have a tractor but a decent low loader trailer is 7k or so and that'll pay for a lot of haulage where I wouldn't have the added hassle of keeping legal etc.

either a Takeucho tb175 or tb145 would suit me nicely- I just can't see past Takeuchi's but they do hold their value like no-ones business.

[dent]

What do they weigh? I want to convert my tipper into one it currently has a tare weight of 9900kg give or take with a crane and 20M chip box. It rarely weighs more than 16t when full, leaving 2 ton spare. I presume the hook gear wouldn't weigh more than that ?

 

 

On the plus side of 3 tons for the hookloader atleast the boss bought one and the 2.8 tonne telehandler wouldnt pick it up then the bodies are heavier than a normal trailer body i reckon our one with one of the low bodys on it must be around 10 tonne and is of much lighter construction than some and then you have at least 2 tonne of crain leaving you very little carrying capacity

[Billy]

On the plus side of 3 tons for the hookloader atleast the boss bought one and the 2.8 tonne telehandler wouldnt pick it up then the bodies are heavier than a normal trailer body i reckon our one with one of the low bodys on it must be around 10 tonne and is of much lighter construction than some and then you have at least 2 tonne of crain leaving you very little carrying capacity

 

 

What, it wouldn't lift just he sub frame and hook etc ?