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Live pto is when you can dip the clutch to change gear without interrupting the pto. Not the case on the solis. why the heck did you change from a jd to this?? 3 speed box with f all overlap! Never fast or slow enough for the task in hand.

Limbed up a couple of ash at the yard. Stacked up with the digger then ran this lot to the fire in three bites!

Well that’s a bit shit isn’t it!

And where is every youngster from down south going to find jobs up North? There's a big problem with housing in this country that the generation before didn't have to worry about. That's the issue here.

Any idea how many times the local wage a terraced house in the back streets of town goes for round here mate? 🙄

Can’t be much to the wiring I’d have thought? Is yours the same shitty gearbox with no live pto or synchros? Spoils an otherwise ok machine.

You got the same tractor as me mate, right down to the tyres and loader!

Looks like it belongs on the scrap heap or in a museum to be frank.

I’m getting turf tyres for mine. I’ll have two sets of rims though. loader specific turf tyres will be rated to the right weight, don’t worry about that.

There’s a set on eBay at the moment! No idea if the price is good or not. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Avant-528-loader-tyres-/144096562291?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

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 😂