Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
I'm surprised you don't see more on road tyres. Lots of jobs they spend all their time on tarmac.
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Komatsu
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Burn a set of tyres on a dumper in a month??
GazCro
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Yeah must be made of chocolate
Shovelhands
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All Rory’s work is on roundabouts and undertaken in 4th gear
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Smiffy
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JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
Dumper on a 10 hr workday running on tarmac 5-7 days a week.... soon eats em! I suppose if you brought more expensive rubber it'd last longer but tbh, at £160/week.....
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Komatsu
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Yeh somethings not right??......we’ve had the same dumpers going up and down the motorway for months and months at a time bet they do 12/13 miles a day and they still look the same.
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Komatsu
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As said Rory, we’ve had them on the motorway doing big miles 7 days a week, 50 weeks a year and just the same tyres from the factory nothing special, just from GAP, SPEEDY or A-Plant
GazCro
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Up to 6 ton tyres are on but the trouble is with 9/10 ton dumper tyres is no manufacturer actually makes a dedicated tyre in the right size. So what you end up with is flotation tyres for silage trailers there not actually rated for the load on the front of a dumper. Why i don't have a dumper over 6 ton if i need bigger i hire, saves buying tyres
doobin
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No cornering on a motorway
JD450A
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I've seen what i've seen, you've seen what you have seen. lots of variables but I'd not be hiring in plant if I saw there where cost benefits in running good second hand units.
lots of variables but I'd not be hiring in plant if I saw there where cost benefits in running good second hand units.
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Smiffy
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No cornering on a motorway
I'm pretty sure some of the dumper drivers I've met could still drive you round the bend
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Komatsu
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You haven’t seen them driving them!!No cornering on a motorway
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
sort of donkeys that the only thing they could drive .... is you up the wallYou haven’t seen them driving them!!
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Komatsu
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To be be fare, there were one or two who, were just exceptionally good, (they were the Romanians), but yeh the majority, you were like WTF have you done that for???????sort of donkeys that the only thing they could drive .... is you up the wall
Routy56
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Hey Rory all this talk about dumper tyres remind me that I have a brand new set of 4 x BZTs on a pallet to fit to my skip loader
Photo show high speed cornering
So this will be one of the jobs to get done while we have to 'stay at home'
The originals that come with the dumper are all beaten up and perished but still do a days work
Hg2702
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ive got a pel job 750 only gave £1500 for it and it’s earned that ten times over ! Could do with a set of full fat tyres on it mind gets a little bit wobbly ... apparently 
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
think I'd continue getting me money's worth out o' what's on there RoutyHey Rory all this talk about dumper tyres remind me that I have a brand new set of 4 x BZTs on a pallet to fit to my skip loader
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Photo show high speed cornering
So this will be one of the jobs to get done while we have to 'stay at home'
The originals that come with the dumper are all beaten up and perished but still do a days work
.. unless conditions dictate a change
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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