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No, yours is the full fat version and turbo to boot.

You've got to be realistic- you're a very limited market. Quite possible the only one. Find yourself a knowledgeable sparky and install an invertor, or even just get a nice silent 3 phase generator. I can recommend this- BISON WHISPER 10KVA DIESEL GENERATOR - Warrior Welders WWW.WARRIORWELDERS.COM The Bison Mark II Generator is a very reliable air-cooled, single-cylinder, portable, open-framed diesel generator... I have the single phase version and the power it puts out is incredible. Welds as good as the mains from my 250 amp single phase MIG. Phil Weeks knows his onions.

I can live with 2-3 litres per hour. I knew DW are expensive but figured it was like Kanga- stupidly expensive in the UK (check out Redband UK for prices on a Kanga that won't even lift high enough to load a Transit!) but not so much in the States or Aus where they are very common. I was thinking it would be around £20k new. Either way it's a solid, rebuildable bit of kit.

I'm hoping it's just one motor or pump, and a £300-400 rebuild! Gremlins are coming out, she's starting to run rough. Bloody carbs.

Give me a diesel engine for this kind of application any day! The petrol ones won't last half as long.

100% legit. Nice guy, had it from new. Does screw piles etc. Also runs Bobcat, but much older models than me. We had a coffee and talked shop for a good hour. I actually paid £5k, but it came with a Digga PD3 which is a larger auger than my current motors which will be good on the backhoe- up to 115 litres/min. So I'm allowing a grand for that in my head and hence the loader owes me £4k. That's good to know, I couldn't find a cost comparison. It's a 2011, hour clock not working. I figured even with rebuilding a pump or motor, it was the same price as a very old Opico Skidster so I couldn't really loose - @dumperis always telling me I need a tracked loader so maybe that'll keep him quiet 😆

I can run my 38hp tractor with stump grinder on 25-30 litres of red for a day of hard grinding. So that's £22-28! Diesel has always been cheaper for the HP than petrol (even when leaving red out of it and just comparing petrol with DERV). The upfront cost of a diesel engine was always slightly more, and the emmissions bollocks is what's really killed it- I was told around £6k on the cost of Euro 4 engine with DPF etc vs the same HP at Euro 3. Hence the big switch to petrol engines- but there's no way these will last as long as a diesel. Now Arb is OK on red again I think we will see a surge of sales of diesel kit as people swallow the extra emmisions costs so they can run red.

Same as Dingo, Toro and Vermeer as I understand it. Very commom in the States and Aus. Actually a very similar design to Avant but a touch wider.

So will the Sherpa. Guess the Yanks don't care as gas is so cheap! 🤑

One bucket, but an hours machining of the backplate will see Sherpa attachments drop on. It's exactly the right size, just needs the tipping pin welded in or a roll in through the clevis rather than the current big fat washer and bolt in order to allow clearance for the two middle hooks. The plate is a mil or two too thick so either grind or do a nice job with a 20mm endmill.

Fk me, just ‘up to five hours operation’ from 28 litres of petrol 🤦‍♂️ are they really that bad on juice?

Yeah, I’m thinking it will be a halfway house between my Sherpa and multione. Will see if it comes in handy for any jobs and if not then move it on.

Nope, sticking to pto for stone burier!🤣

Little Sherpa has a friend! Picked this up cheap at £4k- think I will need to get a pump or motor refurbed as one track is lazy and the pump for it squeals when you push it. It’s not been looked after, so I gave it a a steam off and a service straight away. Amazingly I had the right filters for engine and hydraulic on the shelf. The pins and bushes have no, and I mean no, wear in them- it’s well built. came with one bucket, but with an hour of machining on the headstock and a dab of weld, all my Sherpa attachments will fit straight on! Its a 20hp petrol Kohler- that’s gonna hurt to run, I can tell 🤣 Still, cheap enough to test the concept. It’s an animal in the dirt, really pushes compared to the Sherpa, although the lazy track means I can’t get its full potential from it yet. Apparently it’s got 42l/min flow, so will be a good carrier for the log splitter or maybe even the trencher. Not tested lift capacity properly yet but I’d guesstimate almost double of the Sherpa. what would one of these new cost, £20k?

It’s not on a chipper. Yes, the pulleys have been changed on later chippers to compensate for the lack of power aftwr euro 4 emmisions.

There's no replacement for displacement. The little engines are overly complicated and it's not for youre benefit- it's just to be able to actually pull the skin off a rice pudding whilst meeting emmisions regulations.

Leaving the stumps three foot high just gives you something to rip boom pipework off with. Low stumps and a ripper tooth, easy.

My research suggests they are shimmed.

Not turbo. Naturally aspirated. Pre the latest round of emissions, this engine made 35hp. Now it makes 26hp. It revs the same, so it must be set to use less diesel each stroke? Has anyone successfully adjusted the injection pump to take it back to the pre euro 4 35 horsepower?

Got to be cheaper to just replace the unreliable engine with a nice Honda or an electric motor? Especially as you say you are otherwise happy with the mill.

Probably. Would be interested in how you get on

Agree, put the tractor next to the pile! What are we missing here?

Personally I don't like the 7 finger grabs as not so good for grubbing out.

Just be careful on the hitch. Put it this way, I think he's a lot better at painting machines that god awful black than speccing the right angles on a hitch plate....

I take it that's with a hitch plate? Another company that might be worth a look is A13 Engineering. They have a range of Hardox grabs which are clearly based upon the Intermecatto and the prices are keen. I would have purchased one for my new backhoe but there is a big gap in the range for that size machine. Here's the spec sheet they sent me. A13 Spec Sheet (7).pdf