The 'Today's Job' thread

[doobin]

I reckon the intermecato has more gripping power over the bucket crowd grabs. My take on it is either have a proper grab with the associated articulation or just have a thumb for the sheer convenience. I'd never want a braced manual grapple again

You simply can’t beat a grapple with hydraulic backstay for certain applications. Particularly rough work and small diggers.

 

[Tintan28]

I use one on my E10 all the time. It's an essential bit of kit.

Hi @doobin, any supplier you could recommend? Rough cost?

 

[hiluxman]

Hi @doobin, any supplier you could recommend? Rough cost?

Bmc. Mines well made and can't remember the price but if I could it would be totally irrelevant in today's prices.

I will say I don't use mine much at all. Very rare it's needed on any of my jobs.

 

[pettsy]

I’d like one for my e10, but struggle to justify £350+ for how often I’d probably use it

 

[DaveDCB]

I’ve probably needed a ripper no more than 5 times in 20yrs, even then I wouldn’t have had it with me so done without anyway! If it’s hard ground I Chuck on a 9” toothed(2teeth) bucket and it’s fine! Or a breaker! All depends what work you’re undertaking I guess, and machine size for the job in hand!

 

[diggerjones]

I’ve probably needed a ripper no more than 5 times in 20yrs, even then I wouldn’t have had it with me so done without anyway! If it’s hard ground I Chuck on a 9” toothed(2teeth) bucket and it’s fine! Or a breaker! All depends what work you’re undertaking I guess, and machine size for the job in hand!

Think i could say the exact words. But depends on type of work and whats the ground conditions local to you

 

[doobin]

A ripper is really useful for tree roots and concrete in my experience. A 9” bucket simply isn’t the same. You’re trying to displace around five times the amount of soil as a ripper tooth- it won’t just cut through the ground.

On a small machine every ounce of breakout force counts. I’ve used them before at the start of a footing against a house to reduce the arc of soil or clay left by the bucket due to lack of carrier weight where you would be hand digging otherwise.

Mine is Strickland, and I’d buy again in a heartbeat regardless of cost. Beware of cheap, overlong rippers with the wrong hook angle and geometry.

Whatever it costs it will save you in time and machine wear in the first year.

 

[Giles]

Turfing and grids today and picking up some new toys

I’ve a ripper for 1.5 ton on 30mm pins used it twice ripping out hedges absolute god send hired one off mtk for 9 ton to rip
A huge 1.6m across oak stump out

Smaller the machine the more rip out you need

 

[6feetdown]

last day on site for a couple of months. Been there 9 months!

 

[TiltyShaun]

Almost done on this one

 

[Gunners]

Been trenching for streetlights for weeks now it feels like. Converted the dumper to a cable carrier

 

[hiluxman]

A ripper is really useful for tree roots and concrete in my experience. A 9” bucket simply isn’t the same. You’re trying to displace around five times the amount of soil as a ripper tooth- it won’t just cut through the ground.

On a small machine every ounce of breakout force counts. I’ve used them before at the start of a footing against a house to reduce the arc of soil or clay left by the bucket due to lack of carrier weight where you would be hand digging otherwise.

Mine is Strickland, and I’d buy again in a heartbeat regardless of cost. Beware of cheap, overlong rippers with the wrong hook angle and geometry.

Whatever it costs it will save you in time and machine wear in the first year.

I've found mine to be shite for getting tree stumps out.

I prefer the 1ft with teeth. Your clearing muck away at the same time as exposing roots. Once the muck is gone they flop out. Works for me. Everytime I've put ripper on for roots I've been disappointed.

Only reason I bough my ripper was for peeling kerbs and hanching out which it does well at

 

[Giles]

Turfing and grids today and picking up some new toys

View attachment 43325View attachment 43326last day on site for a couple of months. Been there 9 months!

Do you leave the 860 on site? Or take it home everyday? Even with best tracker I’d not be leaving it on site hence not bought one despite loving the concept of them.

 

[6feetdown]

Do you leave the 860 on site? Or take it home everyday? Even with best tracker I’d not be leaving it on site hence not bought one despite loving the concept of them.

It fits inside a container

 

[Giles]

It fits inside a container

Do you have the container moved to each job on hiab or have one of those plant safes that hall plant hire do.

We’ve had so many containers cut into even ones with 10mm plate boxes over 2 big locks and a 4” box section front beam etc

 

[DaveDCB]

For example in this recent Rhinox advert the operator should of really selected a breaker.. using a ripper on that is just battering the machine!

 

[6feetdown]

Do you have the container moved to each job on hiab or have one of those plant safes that hall plant hire do.

We’ve had so many containers cut into even ones with 10mm plate boxes over 2 big locks and a 4” box section front beam etc

Either container or taken away each night

 

[JD450A]

Is that Harry's old grab? Same as mine by the looks

Of course, you don't think I'd but a new one

 

[V8Druid]

big job on this morning
Pam tried to clean her teeth with her 'Waterpik' that she uses every couple of weeks ... pressure washer for yer gob ... got it from France originally - couldn't find 'em in the UK (made in Froggy - apparently - I have my doubts)
any way ... turned it on and it emptied its water contents all over the window cill (which is where she uses it, in the bedroom - close to a power socket) ... half a litre of water later .. it pumps like hell and there's this "Gra - can you have a look at this"
took a while to work out how the hell to get into it, with a couple of concealed torx hiding under a 'ping out' cover
have to say, 'tis cleverly and nicely made/designed ... and for a little pump, doesn't it ever pump at pressure
tiny 2.5mm pipe spigot'd broken off the pump and took me a while to (a) work out WTF to do with it and then (b) find summat to effect a repair with

lab spec. silicon tube I had sat was a perfect fit .... first try blew it off instantly, despite its wrestle on fit, so cable tied it onto the pumps barbed second larger spigot, wrapped the placcy tube with a good dose of PTFE to form an enlarged dia. on the pipe and cable tied that for a second try (no 5mm hose clips ) and that cured the blow off ..... however .. the pump works so well the sili tube became a bladder and blew up like a balloon as it had less resistance than the jet it was pushing water out of -- couldn't believe the size it got to - but no blow off
the sili tube is now re-enforced every couple of mil. by about a dozen cable ties as close together as I can get them and Pam's well happy to have her 'Waterpik' functional again .... serious little jet from it, for washing yer teef wiv .... 'tis some pump for a few little bits of placcy ...... some very clever injection moulded parts altogether TBH ... very nicely made and cleverly assembled thing

 

[DaveDCB]

Did it get a new paint job after its fettle?