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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:17 pm
by GB_Groundworks
the clay is being mucked away, has to be certificated 170 for the 8 wheeler grab
more pics to follow
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:23 pm
by dig dug dan
£170?
doing a job at the moment (about to upload photos here) had 4 loads out, £250 a go. He moaned about every last bit of grass, root, clay and brick.
if the local tip gets a load with more than 13 bricks in it, they reject the whole load.
Its gettting harder and harder now to get rid of anything
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:26 pm
by digerjones
dig dug dan wrote:£170?
doing a job at the moment (about to upload photos here) had 4 loads out, £250 a go. He moaned about every last bit of grass, root, clay and brick.
if the local tip gets a load with more than 13 bricks in it, they reject the whole load.
Its gettting harder and harder now to get rid of anything
not sure what a grab wagon costs around here, i tipped in a yard the other day and it was £10 a ton for soil. footings clay on bottom and top soil on top 
living in the country i can normaly get rid of most stuff, someone having a fire, someone want hardcore or soil. not had a skip in 12 years of tradeing.
whats with a guick hitch on a mirco digger.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:30 pm
by dig dug dan
whats with a guick hitch on a mirco digger.
well spotted
its a semi quick hitch.
Was fed up with getting grease all over my hands and having to line the pins up each time to change a bucket.
this way, i can use the ripper to break up the ground and quickly change to a digging bucket in much less time.
I have seven attachments alltogther plus the grab, so the quick hitch just speeds things up, plus you get an extra 100mm digging depth!
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:36 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:42 pm
by digerjones
you've been busy giles
dan, i was brought up without q/h's so not that keen. i can see they are handy. the 100mm you gain on depth do you loose out on crowd.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:43 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i love the hydraulic quick hitches on our big girls just means you always have th right bucket on you dont make do due to the arse of changing a bucket, fork, boom, grab etc
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:47 pm
by dig dug dan
dan, i was brought up without q/h's so not that keen. i can see they are handy. the 100mm you gain on depth do you loose out on crowd.
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nope. you gain time and efficiency as giles said!
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:16 pm
by GB_Groundworks
that being said we dont have one on 1.5 toner as you can pick buckets up one handed, i remember before hydraulic quick hitches our foreman had the big machine shimmed so much that the hole had to be perfect or it wouldnt go in,
another advantage no pins in the dirt etc carrying wear material into the joints
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:11 am
by rimexboy
Nice work dan lovely dog,
Files you have plenty going on with that job, it looks massive
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:46 pm
by dig dug dan
another advantage no pins in the dirt etc carrying wear material into the joints
another advantage too, is that the top pin is bolted in, the quick hitch is bolted on, so only one lynch pin to keep losing, instead of two!
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:51 pm
by dig dug dan
