Wacker neuson digger

[Bri963]

I'm back on this idea ref the VDS. I think those against it seem to think it's some kind of alternative to a tilt hitch. It definitely isn't, you'd not want to be rocking the cab every 10 seconds to get your angles. It's an ergonomic thing in my eyes, I've been on a number of jobs lately where I'm wishing I had it. Trenching across a side slope is an obvious one, but this one here somewhere in amongst all the bracken is a wall I will be rebuilding- it's all on a side slope and very little scope/inefficient to be swiveling your tracks and using the blade to level, with a standard machine as soon as you swing downhill you loosing loads of grab height where as with vdd I'd be sitting level and have an extra foot or two of height when working in close-

When this “can’t see any use for VDS” debate kicked off on here a couple of years back, this is exactly the sort of work I said it’s designed for.

 

[Furniss]

I'm back on this idea ref the VDS. I think those against it seem to think it's some kind of alternative to a tilt hitch. It definitely isn't, you'd not want to be rocking the cab every 10 seconds to get your angles. It's an ergonomic thing in my eyes, I've been on a number of jobs lately where I'm wishing I had it. Trenching across a side slope is an obvious one, but this one here somewhere in amongst all the bracken is a wall I will be rebuilding- it's all on a side slope and very little scope/inefficient to be swiveling your tracks and using the blade to level, with a standard machine as soon as you swing downhill you loosing loads of grab height where as with vdd I'd be sitting level and have an extra foot or two of height when working in close-

thought you said they were a bit vulnerable for your work ?

 

[Storrsy]

thought you said they were a bit vulnerable for your work ?

Correct. On the ET20 (at least the old model) the VDS ram hung down below the track frame which is already low in itself but would snagging on rocks all the time- however I've noticed on the new ET25 they've managed to tuck it up higher so wouldn't foul anything- the expanding track frame is slight higher clearance than a ET20 anyway because bigger tracks/idlers etc