Hydraulic thumb.

[Giles]

The one polishbuilt had was the f****ng bollocks!

I bought it off him, was a Geith one.

 

[Storrsy]

Per tonne I’m guessing? Doesn’t sound bad value.

Yes per ton. Delivers 10 ton at a time. That's for big lumps (anything between 100kg and 1500kg general walling stone mix. It's more if it's handpicked stone that builders use on houses etc

 

[Storrsy]

I bought it off him, was a Geith one.

Pic?

 

[Giles]

Pic?

 

[Storrsy]

Yeah that's nice! Does it get in the way of your vision much being a bit wider? Didn't realise Geith made ones like that of the bucket pin.

 

[Giles]

Yeah that's nice! Does it get in the way of your vision much being a bit wider? Didn't realise Geith made ones like that of the bucket pin.

I’ve sold it now gone to another local lad near Eddie, bought a selector grab and the thumb did get in the way a bit on trenching etc but miss it.

Bought a brand new rhinox thumb at auction for 5-8 ton with ram for £150 so that’s sat in its packing crate in yard.

Site clearance and moving buckets etc fanatic but we had a job with load of breaker work and it was in way would creep down etc so took it off

 

[V8Druid]

see you have it on diverter valves @Giles

 

[Giles]

see you have it on diverter valves @Giles

Yeah came with it off polish although lost the arms off them after a few weeks of breaking out rock

 

[diggerjones]

What sort of weight do you reckon that stone is?
Any idea of value?
I’ve just bought a few similar but not sure if I’ve done well or done badly!!!

Like @Storrsy said must be at least 300kg

 

[diggerjones]

Ok. Here is another big piece of stone. Any body guess what it is

 

[Storrsy]

Ok. Here is another big piece of stone. Any body guess what it isView attachment 41272View attachment 41273

The gravestone of that poor chap you accidently exhumed I should think?

 

[diggerjones]

The gravestone of that poor chap you accidently exhumed I should think?

 

[diggerjones]

This is one of my better finds.

 

[Old Operator]

I was in the process of designing a manual thumb for my little Manor using the bucket front hinge pin (dipper base pin) of this. I have had to pause because my dad finally passed away leaving me in a world of legal s**t. This Canadian guy does weldable kits - probably impractical to import one but does give ideas http://www.cdp-backhoe.com/backhoe_thumbs.htm
My thought if I ever did the 2CX thing (now possible) I would prefer a solid (STD) front bucket with quick hitch to exchange easily for forks, as the best ever forks I used were like this on a 580G, & a rear thumb for hedge/ stump removal & handling large rubble broken out of a trench when come across.
Have used a manual thumb on a KX008, it sold me to them. Re the mini TBL's it was said that a std bucket was good on a small machine as it filled better, was able to be higher capacity as itself lighter. Downside is chasing the last bit of a pile around the site, but less of a problem to hand fill on a mini machine.

 

[diggerjones]

Ok. Here is another big piece of stone. Any body guess what it isView attachment 41272View attachment 41273

It's a cheese press stone

 

[V8Druid]

It's a cheese press stone

that explains the lifting eye

 

[Storrsy]

View attachment 41275

What's the story behind that then! Take it there isn't actually someone buried beneath your threshold!!?

 

[diggerjones]

What's the story behind that then! Take it there isn't actually someone buried beneath your threshold!!?

This is the one with story.
Sometime in the early 1730s the prince of wales, the future king, gave our local town (nantwich) money to build a town hall. On may the 16th 1737 it fell down and killed some folk, James Burfcoe being one of them

 

[Monkeybusiness]

This is the one with story.
Sometime in the early 1730s the prince of wales, the future king, gave our local town (nantwich) money to build a town hall. On may the 16th 1737 it fell down and killed some folk, James Burfcoe being one of themView attachment 41295

And on 23rd August 2011 Dylan Ownerofallhesurveys freed said stone from its temporary residence in the sacred ground of Nantwich and relocated it to its rightful restingplace at his threshold…

 

[diggerjones]

And on 23rd August 2011 Dylan Ownerofallhesurveys freed said stone from its temporary residence in the sacred ground of Nantwich and relocated it to its rightful restingplace at his threshold…

where did you get your stone from (chris Tomlinson) and what you doing with it. Are pikey barrier