wee_gus
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Just a bit of water,
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Brendan
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Slows the ram down before it gets to the end of the stroke, so comes up fairly fast till over 3/4 up then slows down. It's to stop it banging up. It's annoying it comes up quick then as you try to get the last bit of reach just slows down
doobin
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I can't say I'd noticed! I'll check when i take it off the trailer later.
Interestingly on mine, if you press the hammer whilst slewing it'll go round like a helipcopter! Does sugegst there's scope for speeding them up a touch. Does yours do that?
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Brendan
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Never touched the hammer line yet, will try next time on it. I have found if you use the blade while travelling and let go of the travel levers it has a tendency to hold onto the right track lever.
Do you have much play in any of the pins? Never had a new machine before but seems to be alot more play in it than I would have thought
doobin
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Same on both counts. Suspect the blade/track issue could be solved with a squirt of lube- my issue is more that you lower the blade and the right track tries to move, but it'll be cause by the same friction point. The play is a lot more than there was in my new Hyundai. I think a lot of it could be sorted with some shims- the Hyundai came with plastic shims and was a lot tighter. Two years on they'd worn out and I replaced them with metal. I think I'll take the E10 apart at some point and do the same. I use plenty of moly grease on all my pins.
These issues are annoying, but I think it's about as close to an 'operators machine' as it's possible for a micro to get. Jump on a KX-008 for a morning and you'll soon be singing the E10's praises. There is scope if you weren''t worried about warranty to let the engine rev more- it's pretty restricted currently.
Make the trip down to Sussex mate and we'll have some beers and a workshop day- take the machines apart and fettle them!
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doobin
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Treated myself to a manual slab grab- five minutes in the workshop replacing the curved handle with a bar and welded hook and this was the result. Luckily I had a swivel hook on the spider that we usually use to lift the muck truck into the pickup
Really chuffed with the E10. It was the sort of job you could almost as easily do by hand with a third guy, but two of us had it bashed out by 4 without breaking a sweat- it was only down the road so took the E10 and Muck Truck down in the tipper then went back for slabs, sharp sand, dust and mixer. It's tools like these that make a job profitable- I've probably made £500 profit (including my labour) today and it wasn't hard work.
Really chuffed with the E10. It was the sort of job you could almost as easily do by hand with a third guy, but two of us had it bashed out by 4 without breaking a sweat- it was only down the road so took the E10 and Muck Truck down in the tipper then went back for slabs, sharp sand, dust and mixer. It's tools like these that make a job profitable- I've probably made £500 profit (including my labour) today and it wasn't hard work.
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Brendan
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Not really being upto anything exciting, the usual getting shafted by skip companies. Fitter was out at the dx10z as had a leak and to replace some pins although still have a bit of play and the engine hood lock now works properly, although still get the slew lock occasionally catch 
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Russell
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How much do you stick in the ground for those big field gates? I know a domestic fence is about a third of the fence height in the ground .
tinydigger
making machines look small since 1980
I know when I used to put in what we called triple 8's (8" by 8" by 8 foot long) new oak gate posts rammed in it was 3 foot deep then dig out a foot all the way round it and a dry mix back fill. If hand dug in it was a 3 foot by 3 foot by 3 foot deep hole then post in earth packed around it for 2 foot then dry mix and topped off with soil
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Russell
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Ok thanks
doobin
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RHD Mining Ltd
The mighty E10 face shovel in full swing....
The mighty E10 face shovel in full swing....
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fred
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i do like that little E10, how you rate it doobin ?
Im a kubota fan and they have a side lever model out with servo controls, wonder how it compares.
Im a kubota fan and they have a side lever model out with servo controls, wonder how it compares.
doobin
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Knocks the spots off any micro on sticks I’ve used. Like, twice as much power and control. Really powerful machine for its size.
Suspect other micros on servos are comparable these days, but the resale of the bocat is rock solid and the price was right. I bought it on a bit of a whim but it’s finding plenty of work.
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fred
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i think for drainage it would be ideal, no having to fetch trailer for the 3 tonner... Theres an hour saved immediately.
Will have to go shopping next year i think.
Out of curiosity, what hitch and buckets did you go for ? is it a klak ?
Will have to go shopping next year i think.
Out of curiosity, what hitch and buckets did you go for ? is it a klak ?
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
doobin
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Hartford pro lock hitch. Yeah, I love taking it about in the back of a tipper, it’s so handy.
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Russell
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What size ramps are you using to get it on the tipper? All the talk of ivecos on here has got me thinking about one to use allong side the shogun.
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Brendan
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I'm not too keen on mine, just fed up of the niggles currently at around 85 hours had hydraulic oil leak from gasket between pump and engine which I think may have come back as keep getting the odd bit of oil come appear on bottom of bellypan, the slew lock still catches every now and again, bonnet lock still not easy to use and the play in the pins seems far too much plus there is definitely something up with my kingpost.
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Brendan
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Video too big to put directly on here so had to upload elsewhere, but this was it at 50 hours. Fitter was out around 70ish and seemed fine but less than 20 hours it's back to the same. All the rams have a lot of sideways movement in them too
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