Routy56 - can you just....

[Grahams]

BMC are always helpful

 

[Canal Navvy]

I often think that hire machines ought to come with a ripper ........... then I remember that builders like to use a ditching bucket for rock

A ripper is one thing that nobody ever regrets buying

 

[Hg2702]

Think my one from bmc was only £160 quid quality but of kit always on the trailer

 

[doobin]

There was a post on here earlier about ripper prices and there was a quality looking one crazy cheap I thought

 

[TiltyShaun]

This one was from Engcon and I wouldn’t want to be without it!!

 

[Nick...]

Bought mine from harford engineering after asking several companies at plantworx.harford was only company who gave me a price and the rest I never heard from.
nick...

 

[Routy56]

Bought mine from harford engineering after asking several companies at plantworx.harford was only company who gave me a price and the rest I never heard from.
nick...

Thanks good to know Nick.
Bought my quick hitch from Harford
I’ll ask them to quote me happy

 

[CPS]

Thanks good to know Nick.
Bought my quick hitch from Harford
I’ll ask them to quote me happy

Just to note, we can supply you one for £300

 

[Nick...]

Paid £260 for mine but was 15 months ago.may have been a show special
nick...

 

[Routy56]

BMC are always helpful

Yep they got back to me today a few hours after I asked
£190 + delivery + VAT + £247.20
Might be tempted - everyone wants old trees ripped out

 

[Grahams]

Yep they got back to me today a few hours after I asked
£190 + delivery + VAT + £247.20
Might be tempted - everyone wants old trees ripped out

You never hear anyone moaning they wasted their money on a ripper. Saves wear and tear on your buckets and machine. In my opinion, money well spent. After all you can never have too many attachments!

 

[Jimbo69]

You never hear anyone moaning they wasted their money on a ripper. Saves wear and tear on your buckets and machine. In my opinion, money well spent. After all you can never have too many attachments!

A hire firm near me charges extra to put a machine out with a ripper. Doesn’t make sense to me, they’re just encouraging people to abuse it more

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Yep they got back to me today a few hours after I asked
£190 + delivery + VAT + £247.20
Might be tempted - everyone wants old trees ripped out

That’s a bargain - I’m surprised you didn’t just buy it there and then tbh! There is literally nothing to think about!

 

[Routy56]

Nice little job yesterday and not far away for Jerry, an old friend who I did my apprenticeship with back in the day
Just over a year ago he asked about digging up his old driveway ready for new block paving.....
.....his son Gary, is a time served Groundworker and now a contracts manager.
He was my banksman, Groundworker and going to complete the job

Concrete broken up and basic scrap up filled the first skip....

While waiting for skip changeover, had to get a few tools out to sort out a little stone jamming the offset/breaker pedal

Quick changeover done just after 11am ...

All done and loaded up just before 2pm.
You gotta love these easy jobs where your work is appreciated.
Gary even said, that over the years he has worked with loads of digger operators, and I was one of the tidiest and quickest he has ever worked with with.
He likes how I would get the machine level or on grade to follow the slope even without tilting undercarriage
And I didn't run the engine flat out - why would I? No need to I own the machine
Good to have nice feedback, look forward to working with these guys again.....

 

[Jimoz]

I know I'm naturally tight but I always set the regs to what seems right. Can't be doing with hearing them revving their guts out all day

 

[Routy56]

I know I'm naturally tight but I always set the regs to what seems right. Can't be doing with hearing them revving their guts out all day

Yep, I'm the same. At higher RPM the hydraulics do not seem to go any quicker and it's not so smooth.
And I know that it uses loads more precious diesel

 

[Jimoz]

Especially if I've had to put white in

 

[Nick...]

I allways run my machine at full throttle and allwAys have done.i know how it behaves like this,right or wrong I don’t know.as for getting machine level,if on a housing estate or where plenty of buildings about I use bottom of grader lined up with mortar lines to get level.also have magnetic spirit level on floor of cab and another at 90 degrees on cab frame which helps too.
nick...

 

[doobin]

I allways run my machine at full throttle and allwAys have done.i know how it behaves like this,right or wrong I don’t know.as for getting machine level,if on a housing estate or where plenty of buildings about I use bottom of grader lined up with mortar lines to get level.also have magnetic spirit level on floor of cab and another at 90 degrees on cab frame which helps too.
nick...

Surely you don't run the tractors at full throttle though, you run them to suit the PTO or load?

Old gear pump machines worked best at full throttle and certain functions were unbearably slow at lower revs Modern piston pumps and load sensing technology now means that modern machines can be worked at much lowe revs, although it takes some adjustment for old school operators.

 

[Jimbo69]

Surely you don't run the tractors at full throttle though, you run them to suit the PTO or load?

Old gear pump machines worked best at full throttle and certain functions were unbearably slow at lower revs Modern piston pumps and load sensing technology now means that modern machines can be worked at much lowe revs, although it takes some adjustment for old school operators.

My 3CX on servos runs best at just under 2000rpm, anything less than that feels slow and numb anything more is a waste of diesel. My Doosan DX10 needs a setting beyond flat out I think