sandy2210

a few from today as they start the final bit of clearfell

trying to keep manual handling of logs to a minimum has anyone tried or got opinions on the digger mounted splitter from evans and reid (the mini excavator center)

I thought for a long time whether to upgrade digger or buy a tractor but Eddie has taken this to a new level!!!! dont know about the rotovator though dont they need a lot of hp and are quite heavy then again not much differnt from a mulcher

know the didnt pay anything like that for it

at least this one when you pull the levers the bucket moves the old one it was the last thing to move!!!!

belongs to the estate owners they use it as a playhut for the grandkids

changed the old jcb for this and added a grapple

not sure if this counts probably more horsepower than originally intended

yes hoping to get over this year only an hour from here are you going to have the wee cat there wouldnt mind a look at the grab set up you have

like the idea of being able to control the grab independently and using the back tines as a rake I am thinking of the 7 tine option and hope it will be able to load logs into trailer as my back seems to be a lot older and weaker than the rest of the body

been looking at different grappels for my digger and the one you have here is just what I have been looking for all the rest have a welded bracket on the dipper can you give me a maker or dealer for the one you have thanks

newish one around here is smidge seems to work well on west coast midgies

working on a site just now that has 4 encons and in the right hands its amazing what they can do ,15 ton duck with forks on is the most versatile forklift ever, another duck landscaping where it really comes into its own, a tracked 14 tonnes cleaning rock in front of drilling and blasting and another laying pipes where all the pipe bedding actually goes round the pipe!! downsides -the one on the duck makes it a bit front heavy , no good for narrow drains as the tilt rams are wider than the bucket,break out force with bucket crowd not as good as bucket so far away from where it "should" be although they are not meant for heavy digging as for damaging slew ring you will fail your "ticket" if you sidesweep during your test for that reason though it looks ok if the bucket is turned 90 all in all great bits of kit in right hands and most situations there is always a fight in the mornings as to who is going to workalongside the good operators

just seen this and thought it was a simple,novel cheap idea anyone tried one[ "http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mini-digger-log-splitter-hydraulic-log-splitter-jcb-8016-kubota-firewood-/191595479309?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2c9bfb010d" mabye someone can convert this to a link thanks

anyone can drive a digger-that dont make them a digger driver and there is big difference someone that can drive a digger is handy sitting on a stockpile loading dumpers a digger driver will see a large pile of muck and landscape it with no extra or needing more I am in charge of both types at the moment the digger drivers you tell them what you want in the morning then never need to go near them all day ones that can drive a digger you have to tell them nearly every bucketful what you want, aye even on a simple stockpile sometimes

clip the lead from inside the genny onto the lamppost it will put a pulse through the cable or open the hatch on the side and clip it to the armour on the cable sit the genny on the ground directly over a known place for the cable dig for it if you have to just dont have the genny to close to where you are searching in fact without useing a "sond" a separate battery operated thingy that you push up a pipe with drainrods and follow it as it is pushed through no part of a genny goes up a pipe all the above will work on electric street light and telecom cables the sond ok for tracing drains or a water pipe that is "open" some of the newer tape laid above a gas or water pipe has a thin wire running through it to attach the genny to

agree about the digbits thumb would not be without it now I did fit a ram I already had instead of the fixed stay and made it 100 times better

my jcb 803 has a sprocket as a front idler and not lost a track yet think it is/was standard as seen it on a few old jcb's

seen it around a few times had to ask first time. they try to dig all the graves in any new plot then fill them in again so they are easy dug when needed never know what they will find first time

point taken. as you say a lot depends on the job

eddie just said all I was about to say and more another reason for blade at back when digging prevents the bucket from hitting the blade when working close in but disagree about bucket at rear on hard digging surely blade at the front stops you getting "pulled into the hole" and yes there was a digger with 2 blades front and rear it was a purpose build for highland council grave diggers they can travel the paths on the very hilly/undulating graveyards and use whatever blade to level themselves while digging cross carriage without screwing round on the grass

same here when you stay out in the sticks you just got to get on with it

we have had no problems with our one a battery last year and new tyres is all it has had in 6 years except a service once a year as for ground clearance I dont think it would be any worse than you have just now 6x6 bellys out between front and ist set of rear wheels

biggarlogs has it pretty much spot on, I have the luxury of the use of both and take what is best suited to the job - we did trial a kubota but after a demo of the polaris 6 wheeler there is no comparison on the hill you are getting into argo territory with it although it is quite low slung and stable it does belly out quite quick in the very soft I tend to use the bike most of the time though for the following reasons it is easyer to use your body weight on a sideslope- i drive across hill with uphill foot on the footrest and downhill leg knee on seat it allows you to "step off" if it does go over if you do get stuck with the bike you can usually get it out on your own by lifting the front onto fresh ground or standing alongside and pushing while gently pressing throttle the bike is narrower and much easyer to negotiate round roots or rocks and you can see them better on bike only other thing I would add the trailer I have for the bike was built/adapted so wheels are under the trailer and same width as the bike wheels so it does not cut seperate tracks or hit root/rock you have just squeezed through and a swivel hitch so if the trailer goes over it dosent try to take the bike with it

not driven a masey for a while now but drove a pre production 590 in the early eightys was working for a contractor at the time who had all masseys mostly 188s and a couple of 168s at the time -was told to give it the hardest time possible and to note all faults the first ones had the windscreen and back window straight up and down so when a car came behind you in dark you were blinded by double reflection - production ones had a different power steering pump and a few other things changed including the spool valve lever which were straight and to short to reach also remember that there was a lever on the right hand mudgaurd beside the linkage levers which would lock the arms and divert extra oil through the spool valves great for tipping large double ram silage trailers so would be great for a logsplitter =this was on the production models we also had a 599 fitted with an after market turbo but it blew a head gasket on a weekly basis so went back to massey