Crash Damaged Cab Repair HELP Please

[MWPage]

Hi all,

New to this forum, any forum in fact...

I hope someone can help, I've got a bridge crash damaged 5.5t 2021 Kobelco. Boom and Rams all in hand but I'm struggling to find either a replacement cab (Kobelco want £20k) or someone that can repair the existing?
It needs structural steel work as you can see from the picture, it's twisted but not badly and it lifted off pretty square too. More available if it'll help.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Hi all,

New to this forum, any forum in fact...

I hope someone can help, I've got a bridge crash damaged 5.5t 2021 Kobelco. Boom and Rams all in hand but I'm struggling to find either a replacement cab (Kobelco want £20k) or someone that can repair the existing?
It needs structural steel work as you can see from the picture, it's twisted but not badly and it lifted off pretty square too. More available if it'll help.

Not sure how that would ever be ROPS certified again if repaired? Surely it’s a new cab I’d have thought?

 

[Lancs Lad]

Not sure how that would ever be ROPS certified again if repaired? Surely it’s a new cab I’d have thought?

Wasn't there some bloke that did similar a bit back ? Was on a thread on here?

 

[V8Druid]

brave

 

[GazCro]

Hi all,

New to this forum, any forum in fact...

I hope someone can help, I've got a bridge crash damaged 5.5t 2021 Kobelco. Boom and Rams all in hand but I'm struggling to find either a replacement cab (Kobelco want £20k) or someone that can repair the existing?
It needs structural steel work as you can see from the picture, it's twisted but not badly and it lifted off pretty square too. More available if it'll help.

Cab is the most important/only safety structure on a machine and not to be modified altered or repaired end of. I thought taki cabs were dear at 7k

 

[V8Druid]

Wasn't there some bloke that did similar a bit back ? Was on a thread on here?

someone was putting up FB pix of one being repaired .... but as said .. HTF do you get it compliant again ????

 

[pettsy]

I posted the one that a local fabricator rebuilt.

 

[MWPage]

That's a tidy job on the Kubota.
I was hoping to be able to work with a cab repair specialist. I can get it tested and re certified once repaired, I wanted to cut out the middle man ideally.
Thank you for your responses.

 

[GazCro]

A lot depends on what/who is gonna use it afterwards. If ur gonna use it yourself and nobody else ever going on it then please urself, but anything other than this i don't think you've any option than replacement cab.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I posted the one that a local fabricator rebuilt.

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Don’t think they repaired the cab though (but might be wrong).

 

[pettsy]

Don’t think they repaired the cab though (but might be wrong).

No, they made a new one from what I can see on their Facebook page.

 

[DaveDCB]

Don’t think they repaired the cab though (but might be wrong).

They did I believe, wasn’t much of the old one left mind you!
‘Ambrose wood and son’

 

[fred]

do away with the cab and just have a canopy ?

 

[Grahams]

Hi all,

New to this forum, any forum in fact...

I hope someone can help, I've got a bridge crash damaged 5.5t 2021 Kobelco. Boom and Rams all in hand but I'm struggling to find either a replacement cab (Kobelco want £20k) or someone that can repair the existing?
It needs structural steel work as you can see from the picture, it's twisted but not badly and it lifted off pretty square too. More available if it'll help.

I think a lot depends what you want to do with the machine. If you are thinking of selling it or putting it out on self drive hire you are going to need it fully certified which if you are not going to buy new will be difficult and expensive I would imagine. If you are just using it yourself and decent welder would be able to knock up a four post canopy to fit the existing fixings for reasonable money I would suggest and still be pretty safe if you used the right tube and copied an existing design off something else.

 

[Smiffy]

I think a lot depends what you want to do with the machine. If you are thinking of selling it or putting it out on self drive hire you are going to need it fully certified which if you are not going to buy new will be difficult and expensive I would imagine. If you are just using it yourself and decent welder would be able to knock up a four post canopy to fit the existing fixings for reasonable money I would suggest and still be pretty safe if you used the right tube and copied an existing design off something else.

To be fair I reckon most fabricators could put together something 10x as strong as the original. Always surprises me how little meat is in engineer designed items as opposed to fabricator designed.

 

[Canal Navvy]

To be fair I reckon most fabricators could put together something 10x as strong as the original. Always surprises me how little meat is in engineer designed items as opposed to fabricator designed.

I've spent time in tractor cabs and wondered if the piss poor welds I was looking at would survive a roll

 

[Smiffy]

I've spent time in tractor cabs and wondered if the piss poor welds I was looking at would survive a roll

Watch some of the videos of machines rolling over in Africa and the like and it becomes quickly apparent they don't survive