JLA1990

I’m probably gonna go second hand, as my choice is bobcat but don’t want to pay top whack as currently it’ll be an occasional machine. Have you had a go in a doosan dx27z heard they’re practically the same machine as the bobcat. I just missed out on your e27 would have loved it!

I’ll defo take a look, not a lot of dealers my way though. I have to admit bobcat has always been my first choice and am awaiting price and lead time on one. I had a go in the sany yesterday, it’s an improvement on the zero tail swing, better stability and cab has been reordered so more space. I had a sany sy26u and hated it due to its instability but the price was right and with the warranty was worth the plunge (at the time) however seeing more and more of them in arb and wondered whether it’s a case of they don’t know what they don’t know in terms of better machines (or it’s the price). I am getting tempted with the zero tail at 31k arb spec with grab, but that’s only as the machines waiting.

Did you have a go in anything else? Currently eyeing up the Sany SY26(not zero tail) wondering whether to check a yanmar out!

Not really however I’ve not used the longer shaft before.

I’m 6ft 4 and didn’t know they did a long shaft version - I have a standard 461’s as said great brushcutter but we use ours for shredding blade work. Upgrade your harness as standard is awful for long days

Thanks Dan & Paul for your comments. Thanks for the link Paul, food for thought. I wonder whether in-house training would suffice to show adequate training (from what I can see from the link it’s a day course and shows no accrediting body). It’s certainly not a prerequisite for this site more something that will make our works easier, as suggested I’m probably overthinking and maybe going down a rabbit hole. Cheers

We will be accessing using ropes regardless of height, surely this must fall into one or the other? We have nptc but not irata hence the question. We can have a concise/well formulated set of RAMS but doesn’t account for not having the base tickets.

Thanks Paul - due to the undulating ground a robo flail won’t work otherwise ours would be on it! Just trying to belt and brace it as its highways works probably over thinking it. Cheers

Thought id resurrect a thread rather than start a new one. We potentially have some works to remove vegetation on a highway embankment - mature trees spread throughout slope however we’re removing ground vegetation (bramble, nettles etc). It’s not perilous with drops just a steep slope, my question is if we were to tie into the mature trees at the top and work down would this be covered under nptc or is this within the IRATA sphere of works (no saws required, brushcutter/trimmers mostly. To stress it could be done without any ropes but would be abit slippy and slow. TIA

I’d value my toilet flushing over my trees being pruned 🤣

Groundies - £150-200 Climbers - £250-350

Have you found any decent info on how the grenadier tows?

Stihl comms all the way especially when working with machinery. Huge improvement in Safety but the one thing I didn’t think to consider is how much they’d Improve efficiency, which they have 10 fold.

Price would be the major difference - only looking at one for semi regular use on particular jobs. As you say lack of parts etc may prove a false economy

Thanks mate, that was my thinking behind purchasing one - feeding hedgerow using a digger and with the drawbar dragging it along aswell. As mick has suggested have you fixed it in position or it functions just fine as is?