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[Tintan28]

Hi all from the North Northumberland coast.
I have been dipping in & out over the past year or so reading up on reviews, opinions etc on various bits & pieces which such as Multione & Sherpa etc which I have ended up buying partly due to this forum so thank you. I thought it only the decent thing to join up.
I am looking at iDig & possibly a tiltrotator in the new year & so researching again by which I came across Ollie Gunns who I see is on here too.
Thanks again everyone for your knowledgable & sometimes witty posts.
Regards, David

 

[Shovelhands]

Welcome, David

 

[doobin]

You don't want to listen to @Gunners ! He only pretends to be able to drive a digger, all his income actually comes from YouTube

Did you end up buying both a Multione and Sherpa then? What models and attachments did you get?

 

[Lancs Lad]

sometimes witty posts.

Wot us?

 

[diggerjones]

Wot us

When?

 

[Furniss]

Hi all from the North Northumberland coast.
I have been dipping in & out over the past year or so reading up on reviews, opinions etc on various bits & pieces which such as Multione & Sherpa etc which I have ended up buying partly due to this forum so thank you. I thought it only the decent thing to join up.
I am looking at iDig & possibly a tiltrotator in the new year & so researching again by which I came across Ollie Gunns who I see is on here too.
Thanks again everyone for your knowledgable & sometimes witty posts.
Regards, David

Few of us with idigs on here of which Gunners is the most eloquent.....I'm finally joining the tiltrotator fraternity shortly.

What machine are you putting the toys on, something you have already or a new setup ?

 

[TiltyShaun]

Welcome.
Engcon and idig user here.

 

[Gunners]

Please like and subscribe!

 

[JD450A]

Please don't blow smoke up Ollie's arse. He has already had to get a 3cx in order to get his head in the cab door FFS.

 

[Shovelhands]

Please don't blow smoke up Ollie's arse. He has already had to get a 3cx in order to get his head in the cab door FFS.

Says the man who had to take the fukin cab right off!

 

[Storrsy]

Welcome! Nice part of the world up there. Very nice indeed. Sadly you won't get much input from me regarding idigs and tiltrotators- still a purveyor of stone age technologies here!

 

[Tintan28]

You don't want to listen to @Gunners ! He only pretends to be able to drive a digger, all his income actually comes from YouTube

Did you end up buying both a Multione and Sherpa then? What models and attachments did you get?

Partly on reading your advice & recommendations I bought the 8.4SK with 4in1, forks & then a mixer bucket & the Sherpa Agri with bucket & forks. Both proving to be good labour saving tools although I haven't got the use out of the mixer bucket yet that i'd envisaged, so a bit of an expensive white elephant so far tbh.
My plan was to sell on bits of plant & kit from my Old Man's days that we weren't utilising & buy in new gear that more suited the way we are working now but it turns out I can make the same mistakes as him, rinse & repeat!!

 

[Tintan28]

Few of us with idigs on here of which Gunners is the most eloquent.....I'm finally joining the tiltrotator fraternity shortly.

What machine are you putting the toys on, something you have already or a new setup ?

I bought a Takeuchi TB225 earlier in the year with it being at the top end of my towing ability to replace an old Case 695SR as it wasn't getting used enough due to driver retiring. I think the iDig is a good bet but need convincing to spend nearly £17K+vat on the engcon as we are general builders rather than a groundworks crew so machines can be idle in the shed for a few weeks at a time.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I bought a Takeuchi TB225 earlier in the year with it being at the top end of my towing ability to replace an old Case 695SR as it wasn't getting used enough due to driver retiring. I think the iDig is a good bet but need convincing to spend nearly £17K+vat on the engcon as we are general builders rather than a groundworks crew so machines can be idle in the shed for a few weeks at a time.

Talk to Rototilt - I’ve got two and they are the dogs danglies!

 

[Tintan28]

Talk to Rototilt - I’ve got two and they are the dogs danglies!

Thank you, I will as in no rush.

 

[GazCro]

Others with idig will have different views but having given it some serious consideration on occasions personally i don't see the working range of a tb225 requires it.

 

[Tintan28]

Others with idig will have different views but having given it some serious consideration on occasions personally i don't see the working range of a tb225 requires it.

Ok thanks for your advice. I am looking at the 2 machine system as also have a case CX80.

 

[TiltyShaun]

Others with idig will have different views but having given it some serious consideration on occasions personally i don't see the working range of a tb225 requires it.

Got to be honest. The idig in both the 3ton machine and 8ton has been very useful.
I realized how useful it was on the 8ton machine this week when I was doing a reduce level on a large house plot. I haven’t had it put back on since the tilty was put on the 8 ton digger as it has been on work that was by eye rather than by level. Sorely missed as I was working on my own. It will be having the tilt sensors and being refitted very shortly!

 

[Gunners]

Others with idig will have different views but having given it some serious consideration on occasions personally i don't see the working range of a tb225 requires it.

Gaz, you live in the Lakes - nothing is flat there so I understand why you think this but you're wrong

If you use a laser on the work you currently do, with any machine, then Idig will save you either the lad checking levels with the staff or if you are on your own, then the need to get out and check your own levels. The spare lad can then be off doing something else. And for the investment vs return it doesn't take long to start earning its money back. Splitting between the two machines is a no brainer and gives you so much more scope for it to be useful to you.

The tiltrotator I agree is a bigger step and if I could only have one, it would be Idig. Purely because for the money it stands to earn the most return in labour saving alone. The tilty is great and I wouldn't be without one now, but takes a lot longer to start earning.

 

[GazCro]

Got to be honest. The idig in both the 3ton machine and 8ton has been very useful.
I realized how useful it was on the 8ton machine this week when I was doing a reduce level on a large house plot. I haven’t had it put back on since the tilty was put on the 8 ton digger as it has been on work that was by eye rather than by level. Sorely missed as I was working on my own. It will be having the tilt sensors and being refitted very shortly!

The main reason i haven't bothered is that it's an amount of money which for me at the moment is far better put towards other things. As a rule for me when working an area big enough to make use of it there's either someone else on dumper who can check levels when you're loading the dumper or if you're dumpering yourself check levels when you're between machines. End of the day a good op shouldn't be that far off grade per loaded dumper.