Backhoe

[Lancs Lad]

Tbh I've never used one on mine..... I have one gathering dust but am lucky that I tend to fell my own trees and thus leave enough tree to push it out.

You've watched far to much Andrew Camarrata

 

[Canal Navvy]

Tbh I've never used one on mine..... I have one gathering dust but am lucky that I tend to fell my own trees and thus leave enough tree to push it out.

That is the glory of being first on site and being able to leave tall bare stems.
Generic tirfor winch, a few snatch blocks and even the biggest tree is easy

 

[6feetdown]

A grading blade obviously becomes much more usable under a tiltly, would be easy to over spec. i think tempting to go to wide and heavy but like everything all depends on that its used for, much the same with rakes, what size gaps? Hardox is a must i think.

Made mistake of ordering non hardox and have quite a few bent tines

 

[Furniss]

I have a rake and ripper for the 1.7t but hardly use the 1.7t - done 100hrs in several years...they would be useful scaled up to the 6t for our job.

Hardox and 75mm gaps on the rake maybe.

 

[JerryRtilt]

I have a rake and ripper for the 1.7t but hardly use the 1.7t - done 100hrs in several years...they would be useful scaled up to the 6t for our job.

Hardox and 75mm gaps on the rake maybe.

Trick with a rake under a tiltrotator is use it slightly offset at a angle and it’s like closing up the gaps

 

[Giles]

Trenching buckets to suit the widths you need, digging bucket, rake, grader.

Sorted.

If you have thick sticky boulder clay like we do a clay spade is real handy, got one for 1/1.5/3 and 5 make digging under pipes etc easy as well

 

[Gunners]

I don't need to defend tiltrotator's - I know what mine has done for me and my business but I also completely accept they don't work for every situation, and hence why I wont be putting one on the 3cx. I actually think you would do really well with one @Giles if you had a driver with the right head for it but I get it, you make do with what you have and it works - always something to spend money on instead.
I've spoken to Paul (Polishbuilt I believe he was on the old forum?) and he runs tiltys on his 360's but as you say, didn't get on with it on the backhoe. Kinda confirmed my fears with it really - and that was before I found out the price.
Attachments wise I've not used my grading beam since I bought it back in 2019! Horrible things to use, heavy, and the working envelope with one is reduced as you have to keep the hitch parallel to the ground - on a 3t - that cuts a huge amount of working area down. They might work on a 13t with more reach, but for me, I can do just a good a job with the grading bucket and faster.
Landscape rakes are brilliant on the right job, an essential for me.
Ripper goes everywhere with me. Not just for tree roots - be breaking up stone walls with it this week, ripping out foundations, its pretty much replaced my breaker on all but the heaviest of slabs.
I'm getting a brush soon - will have to see how that goes... Bored of sweeping up

 

[Lee]

I did get offered 3.9 % on the wacker after saying there was no way I'd pay what they were after

Got similar 3.7% on a new Timberwolf chipper through my usual finance guy at claas last month, Timberwolf’s subsidised offer through Arb lease was 1.5% more despite telling me I’d not get cheaper elsewhere!
Finally but the bullet on one after getting asked all the time if we had one, not been asked since

 

[Furniss]

Ha ..brush is on my list, I sweep up many heaps of gravel every year.

So we got

Tilty with gripper
Trenching buckets
Digging buckets
Grader
Ripper
Rake
Brush

Thats a fair bit to organise trailing around between jobs.

 

[V8Druid]

Ha ..brush is on my list, I sweep up many heaps of gravel every year.

So we got

Tilty with gripper
Trenching buckets
Digging buckets
Grader
Ripper
Rake
Brush

Thats a fair bit to organise trailing around between jobs.

forgot the essential forks

 

[Furniss]

forgot the essential forks

You laugh but I forgot forks .....would be handy for ibc's

 

[Gunners]

You laugh but I forgot forks .....would be handy for ibc's

They are on the front of the backhoe.....

 

[Bri963]

On the K008, 9”, 18”, 30” dyking, ripper, rake (3” spacing, tines profiled out of D6 wearing edge - who needs Hardox), on the to-do list is a clay spade, cabling bucket, three tine rake and a tilting grading bucket.

 

[Furniss]

They are on the front of the backhoe.....

I spent a few years on and off a backhoe and tbh I hated the things mainly becauae i never really got to grips with them - recently used one that belongs to an estate i work for and i was pretty crap on it and found it slow and frustrating ! yet I've seen good blokes on the right job make them look ideal ....alas beyond my skill set.

 

[Canal Navvy]

Ripper goes everywhere with me. Not just for tree roots - be breaking up stone walls with it this week, ripping out foundations, its pretty much replaced my breaker on all but the heaviest of slabs.

My breaker is the same, largely made redundant by the hook

 

[Grahams]

Brushes are cheap and worth every penny compared to pushing one by hand. I have a six foot by one foot brush that can go on my loader or excavator. Mainly used on the loader as it is faster. You can cover a lot of ground with a brush that size. Ideal for cleaning roads.

 

[Smiffy]

Brushes are cheap and worth every penny compared to pushing one by hand. I have a six foot by one foot brush that can go on my loader or excavator. Mainly used on the loader as it is faster. You can cover a lot of ground with a brush that size. Ideal for cleaning roads.

If you have a loader a bucket brush is even better. Amazing how clean you can get things and even get shingle out of grass if you are gentle

 

[doobin]

If you have a loader a bucket brush is even better. Amazing how clean you can get things and even get shingle out of grass if you are gentle

Any recommendations?

 

[Smiffy]

Any recommendations?

I've used strimech, agri link and Sutton and can't say I noticed that much difference between them.
As long as its the type that flicks the muck straight back into the bucket. The jcb fork mounted ones that try and carry the dirt up and over the brush are terrible by comparison.
You can also get the brushes made up to suit your needs adding more metal bristles if on concrete with dried on rubbish. I think they do two different hardness of the plastic bristles

 

[DaveDCB]

We all do different jobs, I’ve done most of them over the 20yrs I’ve been on machines, it’s very very hard to have just 1 machine that does everything you need.
But I do believe that having a tilt rotator on the right size machine really does help with that.
For me a 6 ton with tilty gets me the reach of a 8 ton, but gets me into spaces that a 2.5ton does, and other than the width restrictions most of what I used to do with my 1.7ton.

Granted I do run a decent telehanlder along side of it, but running building sites without a dedicated forklift is foolish imo!

I got my last new machine on 0% while I was mid way through a build, cost £190 in fees over 3 years, was a no brainer! Chopped my last 3cx in and basically got half the cash back from it to help fund the build it does help to pay them off eventually..!!