Off a job in Bury - there was an old mill on site many moons ago apparently, and there are still a few odd lumps knocking around.where did you get your stone from (chris Tomlinson) and what you doing with it. Are pikey barrier
It’s more of a donation to the land owner. I don’t want to be seen to be taking the piss as he gives me a lot of work!
Rsl thumb on.my cx15, makes life much easier for such a cheap attachment and gives ridiculous lifting/shifting power for the machine size. This is the second 1.5 I've had one of these on, moved hundreds of tons with them.
I tend to take it off if I'm digging but takes seconds to put back on
I gave it a lot of thought when I bought this second one and decided that it wasn't worth it for my use, it really does take next to no time to adjust/remove. A lot of my jobs it'll be sat on the trailer the whole job, like if I'm digging out and back filling for paving. But I wouldn't want to leave the yard without it.
If you're leaving it on the trailer then you might as well go the whole hog and buy a grab. Intermecatto are the best for a mini.
I was using my grab on the 8 tonner the other day to tidy up the yard and I have to say I just can't take to it all. I've used selector grabs to on other machines and fine myself getting frustrated. Can't be doing with all the swapping around. Can't dig out stumps with it, anything that I want to do with it feels like it's would be rough on the rotate like wrestling a large rock out of a pile. So yeah it's great for handling timber and rehandling rocks but then that's about it. Job I'm about to start in a week's time. I'll be clearing scrub, digging out boulders, raking and pilling up a large area of bramble, digging out an access track clearing trees as we go etc. Got an 2 acres of fallen willow to clear and burn etc, dig out all the stumps etc.Now I know if I had a thumb on this machine I could turn up and do all of that with nothing but thumb and the biggest digging bucket, perhaps a narrow bucket for when it comes to piling up timber. But I dont so it's going to be endless swapping between digger buckets and the grab. Then I think about the price of that grab new (£8k) and the price of a thumb (£1k). Just doesn't add up for me. More stuff to bring along on the lorry too
know where you're coming from, but that's a digging grab isn't it ... should deal with the stumps and boulders OK .... rest as you say is a bucket job ideally
You can't really give it enough s**t though to pull out stumps. It forces the rotate around etc which I don't like doing. Same if I have a load of boulders in a heap it all has to be dismantled carefully before I can get the one I'm after. I just prefer the robustness of a bucket and thumb. You'd have to be a real animal to damage that...
@JD450A ...
My time to shine
I’ve bought a few hydraulic thumbs (3 of them
) only need one
if your interested PM me I’m collecting them tomorrow
The ones Giles put up?I’ve bought a few hydraulic thumbs (3 of them
Yea not collectEd them yet
Was a Rhinox wasn't it?
If you have one off paul I've got a mate coming up on the 16th Dec. He's from saint Austell so could fetch it back down
Think it was
I have that many things coming and going don’t know half the stuff I have
