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I've never seen a plug wrench with an 8mm on it! A small tee spanner is a lot less cumbersome, so my vote goes there.

I take it all back 😆

A 4 in 1 (and I've always said this) is useless for grabbing anything other than dirt/muck. Think about it- you're trying to grab a bundle of stuff with a 'grab' that closes to a sharp triangular point. All it can hold is one log. It is, however, fantastic for earthmoving. Being able to bulldoze, grade off, and grab the last bits without chasing it around everywhere. Budget 2k for a 4in1 (not seen them much cheaper) and you will be pleasantly surprised when you see the plethora of 4ft muck grabs available for £1k. You need both if you want to handle both dirt and brash. Dumper is right in that tracked machines are much better for earthworks. However, that role is easily performed by the common-as-muck mini digger, whereas the main advantages to the compact articuladed loaders are the lack of mess whne turning, speed, and the way they can climb over things like the kerb in that photo. I'd never have done that with tracks without building a ramp first. You can't expect an Avant or Multione to push like a tracked machine, but that's not the point of them. For me, three diggers provide all the pushing and digging I need, but the MultiOne is a very welcome addition and a long time overdue- the benefits are huge and it's really going to speed up the way I work. The same benefits would apply to an Avant, Cast or any other articulated loader.

They’re fine if you get the weight distribution right. And if it goes wrong, you roll it back over, bend the handlebars back and laugh about it.

Never knew you sold up! What sort of money?

Not being funny mate but if they think a tb215 digs like a 2.5t then they cant know much about diggers. Just saying. 30lpm aux is about standard for a 1.7t machine. Not enough for a flail. 2.7t machines have around 50lpm, and that’s not really enough for a flail as the flow sharing isn’t great. All you can really do is slew with it. oh, and the tb216 is a crap machine. Don’t just take my word for it, ask Matt storrs! swinny, if you are running alongside a tractor and loader plus timber trailer, then I’d say your looking at work that a 2.7t would be more suited to- larger jobs. 1.7t machines are cheap to hire for the odd narrow access job.

Much cheaper and easier to fit a diverter. Tap into the offset pipe work, even with actual hydraulic taps if electricity isn’t your thing. You have to run the pipe work down the boom anyway. So terminate it by using a t and a tap into each side of the offset ram. those grabs don’t look great, tiger grip get good reviews for Arb work and are not too pricey.

I wouldn't in the current climate mate. You'll get a nail. Best to be prepared to wait a while (maybe even a year) and use half the 12k as a deposit and the other half for a grab, rotator, ripper and tilting bucket IMHO. A couple of jobs a month cover the finance easily, and you are putting money into a pretty safe asset.

Pricing is odd, isn't it. I know a man who's ordered (and is waiting ages) for a Cat 2.7t with air con, hydraulic hitch and tilting bucket, for 28k. The 27z has a slightly smaller engine than the 27, which means less hydraulic flow. I guess a compromise to make it zero, also makes it a few k cheaper. What did Cat quote you out of interest?

Sounds like a sensor or pump pressure issue if it works fine with no load. be careful with the sight glass. Once they get old and crazed they can be very hard to read. If you’ve put three gallons into it with no visible change on the sight glass then there’s a fair chance it’s overfilled and the problem lies elsewhere. What symptoms do you get when you are in it and it refuses to lift any further?

Isn’t yours the e27z? That’s a slightly cheaper model. My E27 was 27k two years back, but the 30k for base machine what I was told by the salesman the other day when I asked in passing. I paid 30k total including the tiger grip and rotator plus twin aux, hydraulic hitch and extra counterweight. Machine prices are rocketing, that’s why I thought **************** it and jumped in with the multione.

30k I was told the other day.

Same goes for Pringles- you shoulda seen the crates we used to forklift onto the lorry. I reckon the cows would have turned their noses up at some of them.

It’s a shit time to buy a second hand digger, prices are sky high. I sold my 2017 hyundai 1.7t with 1500hrs for 8.5k plus vat at the start of the pandemic as I’d ordered the E19. Now people want that kind of money for a ropey old 2001 basic model with no expanding tracks! Its exacerbated by stupidly long lead times for new kit.

Yup, a Chinese 8.8 bolt is like a Chinese 2000 lumen head torch 😂

Well it turned what would have been a two day job with digger and power barrow into home by three. I took the micro there on the Iveco and the MO in the trailer with digger buckets and pallet forks in the loader bucket. Any loss of efficiency from the smaller digger was more than offset by being able to pull it out into a windrow, then scoop up and tip exactly where I wanted it. I can’t believe what a difference this made. Then six bulk bags in through a tight corner access with the only drama being the shitty state of the bags 🙄

This. It’s just a shed.

Are Iveco that rare? I really rate mine as a tow vehicle (3.5t too!) and wouldn’t want anything else. Vans with their wider wheelbase are generally much more stable when towing than pickups.

Grading beam and leveller are different things. Have the tilt headstock on order tho.

Not got the leveller for it yet. That grading beam on the digger is quick, and it needed the tilt hitch to level up too.

That was me 6 years ago! Keep it up mate 👍🏻👍🏻

Odd looking grab, what make?

Stick to carpentry mate….🙄 The E19 placed the sleepers in the second photo two at a time. The E27 pisses all over it for clearance work, but if it won’t fit, then I’m really glad to have the option to put the grab/rotator on the smaller machine. I do run a grapple under the E19 too which is much lighter and nimble. I don’t think I’d bother on an older 1.5t though- I’d stick with a grapple. The E19 is very planted but a grab/rotator is a lot of stack height and weight. No machine that size will ‘piss it’- you have to think carefully about how to get the best out of it. Photo of E27 included for size reference.

Burning green waste on the site it is produced is legal, subject to registering for an EA exemption. Very surprised to see this happening on a school job, but I do remember having the fire brigade out to a small fire we had on a school job maybe ten years ago 😂

Seriously impressed with where it will fit. This was a job next door to one of mine, where the builders had piled up a lorry load but not considered how the grab truck would reach it over the ten foot wide hedge… 🤦‍♂️ So I picked it all up and ran it to the road for a very reasonable price. Even starting to make the 4 in 1 look good now. This was it wiggling out of the garden over an 8” kerb. It’s incredibly sure footed. Then brought buckets of topsoil out to the digger to level off a job.