New wacker

[JMC Landscapes]

I'm looking to get a new wacker. What do you reckon is a good one to go for? Is second hand looking for trouble?


Cheers,


John

[rab1]

Don't know that much about them for long term ownership but would look at ex hire company stock for 2nd hand, granted it will have been well used etc but there also well maintained and cheap.

[JMC Landscapes]

Cheers Rab. I've looking on ebay at second hand. Had thought about hire shops, I was in hss earlier and the guy said they don't sell any of their old stock. It all gets scrapped. The least people with tools the better for them.

[rab1]

Speedy/Hewdon do a yearly auction.

[Kuts]

Cheers Rab. I've looking on ebay at second hand. Had thought about hire shops, I was in hss earlier and the guy said they don't sell any of their old stock. It all gets scrapped. The least people with tools the better for them.

Thats quite clever of them.

[Dave_L]

What's your budget?

[DNgroundworks]

Cheers Rab. I've looking on ebay at second hand. Had thought about hire shops, I was in hss earlier and the guy said they don't sell any of their old stock. It all gets scrapped. The least people with tools the better for them.

Thats quite clever of them.

i very much doubt the scrap companies would scrap perfectly sound tools, unless they a completely shagged, they would salvage them and sell them wouldn't they?

Quite shocking that really.

[JMC Landscapes]

What's your budget?

I reckon about a grand. But would prefer less.

Been considering this

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop....e-honda

Or second hand I could get it for about £400-500

[lutonlagerlout]

£20 cheaper here
tool net
I have had mixed reviews on belle
thelads we hire off ,plantmasters in dunstable had a fantastic wacker plate
i used to specifically ask for it
and then they sold it on ebay,I could have cried
wacker and MBW are the 2 brands that i hear the best things about
LLL

[msh paving]

I own a diesel wacker plate, bought brand new in 2000, still going strong with very little cost only a fuel filter and oil change, paid £1600 inc vat for it also have a small petrol wacker for jobs not requiring so much force, was around £800 honda engine all made by wacker, MSH

[Dave_L]

A grand would get you a top of the tree Bomag 18/45 plate.

[local patios and driveway]

Yep those bomags are the best compactor ive used yet, those belles are crap. Sorry i know weve had this conversation but they just dont compact like wacker, benford or bomag

[GB_Groundworks]

We've got a 80kg bomag with water box on the front and a 96kg whacker, both cracking tools and reliable, we had one of those belle mini pacs for small jobs was great as you could pick it up one handed, I can pick those up and get them in my navara but its a struggle and especially with the whacker I see those bright bits in your eyes, in the yard we load them with forklift but sometimes coming home you are left on your own. Dragging them up a plank is an option as well.

Although after 3 weeks with the rammax remote controlled roller compaction has new meaning, I really can't get across how impressive it is even in bad ground, mix some granular in roll with that bad boy and its like concrete.

We are filling a 3x10 metre by 2 metres deep concrete pit at mo blown away by it don't want to send it back here, although on a patio might shakes the house down with 86.4 kn of centrifugal compaction force

[ambient]

i use this one bought it off ebay for £850 was owned by a hire company and had never been out on hire

that is the actual pic of it when i bought it gleaming

[msh paving]

i use this one bought it off ebay for £850 was owned by a hire company and had never been out on hire

that is the actual pic of it when i bought it gleaming

thats the same as mine, MSH