, been on plenty standard machines...long dipper...tilty, cross carriage and back end lifts up, reduced/zero won’t be any different, you want to be on top of the job not on the boarder line.
We used to say that if you have the option go for a slightly shorter dipper to compensate for the build height of the tilty (say 500mm), but over the years talking to the OEMs a number of them tend to prefer the 'sausage machine' approach - i.e. keep it as standard as possible. I'd certainly agree with Ollie on avoiding a long dipper (especially with the prevalence of RTS or ZTS machines these days). That having been said, we've had an order this week for the environment agency for a CX210D long reach, but is was a smaller EC214 (14tonne) tilty. Depending on the application and breakout force, you can put smaller tilties on LR machines.Stay away from a long dipper
You have the option Robert when/if buying new, as to what length of dipper you want. Pacific machines, i.e your LR machines have the extra weight put in, with options to add extra slices of weight, it’s harder to do that on just the standard site machine.
Agreed. 5 years ago it was more common to sell an Engcon-equipped digger without the tilty because the demand for them wasn't there. Opting for a shorter dipper would have had an adverse effect on the resale of the bare digger. Nowadays, there is a stronger demand for well set up diggers with tilties so the need to take it off has disappeared (especially with the current exchange rate against the Scandi countries)
they're a nice machine .... got some time in one o' them with Alex a while back - self loading if he was busy and leveling out our tip area ... was some tool ... but pushing 18t, with a blade, was pretty planted most of the time .... would have one in a heartbeat
what were "the issues"
just been talking to some one else with one on FB ...... with very similar issues .... told him he needs a conversation with you
he's similarly pissed off ... expect a PM
You just adopt a different driving style that’s all, just don’t move back as far, as for moving it on, you’ve got the whole of Europe to sell into, not just the UK.
I've driven machines for the past 23 years, 8/9 of those were on case ,Jcb, cat 180's, all on sticks, you can operate around the machines niggles but when they are doing things that you cannot control it becomes beyond annoying and makes you look as if you don't know how to operate.I Sometimes get into a Bobbing motion with the sticks that won't stop until I let go of them and everything comes to a stop and I start again. I just out it down to my inability to drive an excavator smoothly
