Matthew Storrs
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Always coming accross toads and lizards when I’m wallling- On this particular job I scooped an adder out of a ditch with the digger- fortunately he was unharmed- but a little irritated to have been disturbed in such a manner- understandably.
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He looks like he belongs in a rainforest- lovely.
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If I wanted to be away from people I wouldn’t go into a pub! Know what your saying though- another one is when you go into a largely empty car park and park away from cars and some one comes and parks right next to you.
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Is that the yanmar SV26 Stephen? Just had one on a job myself with view to replacement. Did you like it?
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Or as AV said to me (in jest) sign a blank cheque and send it up and they’ll do the rest. im also in the “I’d love a mog, could put it to use a lot, but costs when they go wrong put me off” camp.
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Hmm, the U1000 I used to drive. Think you’d struggle to fit a 3tonner in the bed-or at least the tracks/blade would probably just fit on but no room for arm. My Herbst dump trailer is 12ft long and even that has the arm hanging out the back a fair bit. Just googled specs- short wheel base is same length as tracks so definitely wouldn’t fit one in that- maybe a long wheelbase variation?
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Nonsense, I bought my first digger at 21, tractor 2 years later. If you’ve got plenty of work for it and know that your in it for a while- then why put restrictions on yourself. Plus the more you can save your body at your age the more you’ll thank yourself later.
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Plant Search | Auto Trader Plant PLANT.AUTOTRADER.CO.UK Small duck come up for sale here in Devon- looks a handy setup.
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It’s amazing what you can do with a powertilt hitch though compared with just a tilting grading bucket. Because the hitch tilts so much it’s easy to pour material accurately by tiliting a full grading bucket up, or putting a small trenching bucket in it you can work it underneath stuff- be creative with it etc, also if you wear the bucket out it’s cheap enough just to buy a standard replacement bucket, the actual hitches though are very robust- I know someone who has put 11000 hrs on one and still in daily use.
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Bit of a derail- but what’s going on with plant hire companies at the mo. Hewdens have just gone bust, and WH Bonds (a bigger hire firm round here) have packed it in. Also just heard Eagle plant have gone too. I mean plant hire seems to be a bit of a race to the bottom to me- is it all coming to a head?
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Looking at the E20 though it’s basically based around a 1.8t machine . Same engine,tracks, reach etc. I’d have thought it would be well worth spending the extra £5k to get the E27 instead if it’s that good. Turning up with let’s say a Kubota Kx18-4 @ £18k will do the job that the E20 could do, whereas capability difference jumps massively once your up to 2.8t etc.
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£30k all in for an E20 sounds a lot to me.... especially if that is meant to be Bobcats 0% finance..... I had a quote for a 2.8t Yanmar which was £23500 plus VAT. And Takeuchis new 2.4t TB225 is similar.
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Id love to try a setup like- To me that lowest picture just looks wrong. The whole geometry that the engcon changes. Surely breakout must be massively reduced looking at the distance from the tipping link to the tip of the bucket- the leverage is collosal- an extra 12-18” of height in there. When you curl the bucket it in youd have a job not to foul it on the boom on a little machine like that.
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Don’t say that! I was going to offer mine to him!
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I put down £5200 inc the VAT. the rest is £380 a month over 48 months. Full cab etc. I sourced the powertilt hitch myself. however a better deal would have been a new hitachi zx19u which was offered to me for £14k plus the VAT. It was canopy which living where I do in the mist and rain never works for me!
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Yeah- bugger me, the price he’s been quoted is top spec 3 ton money.
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I have a harford hitch on both my Taks, it’s ok but I wouldn’t say I’m crazy about the geometry- I reckon it loses a load of breakout force- the old miller hitches I used to have were better in that respect but boy did they wear- soon got yourself a self levelling bucket! is that over 60 months that price?
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Went back to finish the pond I started last week, not a spring in sight but the rain water alone has filled it to 60% in 5 days. Whether it holds it in summer is another thing...
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Fair play Eddie- that says enough, specially pic 3!
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Something that tends to put me off- and it’s purely speculative as I’ve never used one. I don’t want to use the word abuse, but typical real world situation which I counter- grappling with boulders- digging out ditches and ponds etc- how would an engcon stand up to working immersered in water, that boulder/log that’s too big to lift so you end up rolling it around, big stump that needs coming out, I’m not saying I’m rough on machines- quite the opposite but there always seems to be the odd situation crops up where yeah you’d want a bigger machine but the job needs doing there and then so tend to push the machine through it. I just wonder how robust they are?
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Yeah you’d think so- when I first got my landrover 10 years ago the insurance reduced dramatically when adding my wife, which surprised me as I wouldn’t want her driving it for love or money!
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I guess you don’t miss what you haven’t had? In a nutshell though what are the advantages of an S couple and the Scandi buckets- I get why on a tilt rotator, but what’s the benefit as an alternative to standard pin grab hitches?
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Looks tidy- good engines in them- same as the Hitachi zx60usb.
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This is how I’m going to get my next grader/ bolt on lip and wear strips fitted underneath. Bolt on blade allows better bucket to blade contact when cleaning up etc too..
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I got Rhinox buckets as standard with newest Tak- I’ve found them to be very well made and like the fact the come with little hooks so it’s easy to move around with grading bucket. Digbits grading bucket I’ve worn through the bottom in 3 years- might just be my style of operating but metal could be thicker on the base IMO.
