Maskinexpo 2019

[Komatsu]

This could be a cheaper alternative Graham, especially if you’ve got miles to do, it also had a blade on the back with adjustable wings so that you could pull stone back with you....

 

[Mogman]

I built a towed grader years ago that was 8’ wide but had hydraulic wings that made it up to 12’ the axle steered and tilted so could put a camber on the surface used to tow it with my matbro telehandler that I made a towing hitch on the front axle so actually pulled it backwards made a beautiful job all controlled from a electric spool valve (proportional) that came from the ‘yard’ but alas no lasers back then

 

[Grahams]

There are all sorts of options out there. They do a laser grader for my Norcar loader, but it doesn’t have enough pushing power to rip up hard packed tracks. A proper grader would do a very efficient job.
Most are maintained by tractor mounted equipment that chews up the surface then is relaid by a tractor towed grader then compacted by a vibrating roller. If you could do the first two operations by something I could tow with my pickup there would be a big cost saving if the equipment was cheap enough.
Graham

 

[Komatsu]

This is what they they use for breaking the ice in the winter time on the roads....

 

[Komatsu]

This mirror caused a bit of head scratching to begin with...

Until we realised that once in the cab there was another mirror, which, when set up let you see the pick up points for the front Q/H,

 

[Komatsu]

The roof issue seems to of been taken care of with it now channeled to either side, them down a hole on either side

 

[Komatsu]

And thought this was quite a smart idea for the pick up on there loading shovels, everything folded back up when not in use...

 

[Pedrod355]

Is pladdet the uk importer for ema buckets?

 

[Komatsu]

Is pladdet the uk importer for ema buckets?

Yes they are, Araon is great to deal with. They are going to Plantworxs, I can DM you his number if you need it.

 

[Komatsu]

EMA had quite a big stand, show casing a lot of what they do, including there new Zero range which are about 15% lighter than there standard buckets.

i ended up spending quite a lot of time with the designer of there range of trailers. They had been built with feed back from end users. The pin on the front of the trailer is so that no where you are when you come to contect it up, you can just pull it into the mouth of the hitch, the majority of hitch’s over there are the automatic type so it’s just a case of the lifting the jack leg up.

also the inside of the trailer had the sides sloping in so that they don’t retain any muck. Also the inside at the front of the trailer was curved so making it easier to dig muck out.
But the most impressive thing on there stand, was that EVERYTHING, had a price tag on it!!, no waiting for someone to take you details and get back to you. Be slightly better if a few more did that over here.

 

[Pedrod355]

Yes they are, Araon is great to deal with. They are going to Plantworxs, I can DM you his number if you need it.

Thanks, I’ve got hold of his email address,like there skeleton bucket with teeth, maybe have a couple of uses for it then! there gear looks like they go the extra to tweak everything as much as they can, well thought out The way things should be....how do they compare cost wise?

 

[Komatsu]

Thanks, I’ve got hold of his email address,like there skeleton bucket with teeth, maybe have a couple of uses for it then! there gear looks like they go the extra to tweak everything as much as they can, well thought out The way things should be....how do they compare cost wise?

I would say cost wise, there not far off what you’d expect to pay for something over here, depending what it was you were after, the difference been, your getting a genuine quality Swedish bucket, with the right geometry weight and size for your machine, which is important so to get the best out of your tilty.

 

[Pedrod355]

I would say cost wise, there not far off what you’d expect to pay for something over here, depending what it was you were after, the difference been, your getting a genuine quality Swedish bucket, with the right geometry weight and size for your machine, which is important so to get the best out of your tilty.

Absolutely, i was using a standard digging bucket along with a engcon bucket digging founds, the difference was night & day!

 

[Komatsu]

Had the absolute pleasure of meeting this man, he is Ernst Menzi, the grandson of Mr Menzi himself, we had the best part of an hour with him, and it was extremely interesting listening to some of his story’s. He was saying that his grandfather got the idea of the Menzi from the Smalley grave digger, taking one back with him to see how it worked.

 

[Komatsu]

Was able to video most of the demonstration of it...

It was very impressive

 

[V8Druid]

Was able to video most of the demonstration of it...

It was very impressive

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that is SOME tool .... was the grandson a midget 'vertically challenged' or is that machine THAT big ???

 

[Komatsu]

that is SOME tool .... was the grandson a midget 'vertically challenged' or is that machine THAT big ???

It’s THAT big, extremely impressive, and with the all wheel steering, a massive improvement on previous models.