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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.

Ok, how did I manage without it? Just been out on site with it. Cleft chestnut fencing on a bit of a slope but piss easy sandy ground, although with a few lumps of iron ore and plenty of tree roots. We used the Kelfri log grab to pick up the bundles of posts and rails and drop them out, as well as moving bundles of old fencing. Then the pallet forks to carry our hydraulic powerpack and breaker gun to the middle of each run (used for tamping round posts). Then stuck the 12" auger on and let her rip. Took a bit of getting used to (too much downforce and you'll lift the front enough for it to skip over, which is very disconcerting on a slope!) But man it's quick. High flow was brilliant. 46 bays with two men in under 7 hours. 134m of cleft chestnut installed. Previously we'd do it all with a digger plus auger, and marvel about how quick we were compared to the old boys doing it by hand. But this is a huge leap forward again. It's being able to handle piles of materials quickly that makes the most difference- no more handballing into a dumper or pickup. No need to empty everything out of the truck to use it to carry materials, or make a seperate trip with a dumper. There wasn't a mark in the field either. Very very impressed. Being a ton lighter than the E27 also makes for a nicer towing experience.

I'm with Rob on this. Can see the spikes possiblly curving it off somewhat, can't see it creating all that heat. I reckon there's something wrong with the bar, chain or sprocket if the oiler is 100% OK. Waiting with interest to find you, I don't mind being proved wrong.

Yes but the flail is half the price of the tractor! 😂 for the amount I do I’ll keep the tractor, the flail collecting is the main thing.

Had considered that but there’s not really any benefit to doing so. More complication. Tractor almost cost less than some loader attachments!

I have a lot of pto powered equipment such as flail collectors. The tractor was bought for that really, it just come with a loader.

If it hadn't been for the sudden influx of cheap European labour, lorry drivers wages would be much more likely to still reflect the responsibility they undertake. Who'd have thought it? You suddenly allow in to live and work tens of thousands of people for whom £50 a day is a kings ramsome, enough to buy a house back home after working here for two years, driving a lorry like they do back home. Furthermore, you also allow European firms an exemption to do a few jobs in Britain whilst they are over here delivering, all the while whilst running under much more lax Polish lorry standards with belly tanks full of half price diesel purchased back home. And you wonder why the **************** lorry drivers are paid so little? All you who blame Brexit for the current driver shortage are so blind you can't see the wood for the trees. The seeds of this shortage were sown by adopting freedom of movement. wihtout taking into account the vastly differing standards in countries who shoudl never have been thrust together under one banner ipn the first place. How ironic that Brexit should be the thing that causes a shortage again. No temporary UK visas for EU lorry drivers, urges Unite | Workpermit.com WORKPERMIT.COM Trade union, Unite, has urged the UK government not to issue temporary UK visas to EU lorry drivers. Full story, here.