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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:57 pm
by GB_Groundworks
flowjoe wrote:GB_Groundworks wrote:they say 2000 metres an hour with it, would speed up my drain laying.
We did a full site survey at Lancashire Cricket Club in the summer and they ripped up the pitch at the same time.
The company installing the land drainage had a great bit of kit on site, much bigger than the DitchWitch shown in this thread and they said they could do 2000mtrs a day ? on field drainage or horse race tracks etc........but they were doing something like 800 a day on this site.
Having said that it was the summer so it was pissing down most of the time.!
I will try to post some pics when i get the time
a friend of my dads runs a company called pugh lewis it might have been them they do twickenham rugby ground and old trafford football they have a mastenbroek drainage machine.
http://www.pugh-lewis.co.uk/
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:36 pm
by flowjoe
These guys were from Oxfordshire they are called White Horse Contractors.
They have some great kit and have a plant hire service
http://www.whitehorsecontractors.co.uk/plant.htm
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:18 pm
by Dave_L
GB_Groundworks wrote:flowjoe wrote:GB_Groundworks wrote:they say 2000 metres an hour with it, would speed up my drain laying.
We did a full site survey at Lancashire Cricket Club in the summer and they ripped up the pitch at the same time.
The company installing the land drainage had a great bit of kit on site, much bigger than the DitchWitch shown in this thread and they said they could do 2000mtrs a day ? on field drainage or horse race tracks etc........but they were doing something like 800 a day on this site.
Having said that it was the summer so it was pissing down most of the time.!
I will try to post some pics when i get the time
a friend of my dads runs a company called pugh lewis it might have been them they do twickenham rugby ground and old trafford football they have a mastenbroek drainage machine.
http://www.pugh-lewis.co.uk/
That's cutting a nice neat trench alright!
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:22 pm
by Pablo
Dave that rigs a belter shame you're gonna have to go and get it dirty now. I've never seen one with an axle setup like that is it bespoke. Very tidy body how come you didn't insulate it.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:37 am
by Dave_L
Yes, we had a double-wheel lift axle fitted after extending the chassis by 400mm or so.
Body is fully insulated.
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:19 am
by GB_Groundworks
looks to nice though to fill with bitmac all that tar staining
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:48 pm
by nick65
For Christmas i'd like a pair of surgically attached grease nipples for me knees.LOL. 
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:27 pm
by Dave_L
Connected up the low-loader yesterday, loaded/unloaded the paver from the old one for the last time /sob
400,000kms and 20 years old - and the 113M 340 tractor is still on it's original brake linings, believe it or not! (Well, we replaced the nearside shoes on the drive axle following an axle seal failure)
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:48 pm
by Pablo
Nice shiney new machine and you had to go a slew the counterweight into a muck pile ah well someone had to do it. Bit like when you get a new set of boots and your mate stands on them to christen them.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:06 pm
by nick65
im thinking of trading in all my marshalltown and probst kit for some cheaper stuff.That way the gits round here wont keep robbing it.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:09 pm
by msh paving
you will never match probst in england no one makes any thing to compare, 
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:30 pm
by Pablo
Nobody can compare with the Sh#gging money they charge you for the privilege either.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:56 pm
by nick65
Very true lads, Probst is in my veiw the best out there but the prices of some of there kit is a bit of a piss take.But cared for well it will last a life time. Last summer i contacted them in the states and also spoke to one of the managers of PaveTech. I managed to get some great prices due to the then exchange rate but with shipping and import tax and god knows what ever other costs various other vultures would add made it hardly worth the while. The guys at PaveTech were offering me a deal to be there UK outlet for there PaveEdge edge restraint. As they had no UK patent on the product a UK firm had copied it some time ago ,but didnt do that well and with drew it from the market. On those grounds plus the fact i dont really have the capital to embark on such a venture i gave it a miss. So theres a window of opportunity for some one there.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:21 pm
by Tony McC
I spoke with one of PaveTech's competitors in 2007 and they just completely failed to understand why that type of product will not succeed in Britain and Ireland. I was annoyed by their arrogance which encouraged them to assume that the US way was the onlyway and that we were somehow out-of-touch and behind-the-times in our thinking. They could not understand that our climate is different and this allows us to use concrete with near-impunity.
The extended discussion ended with them telling me most forcefully that I knew "fuggin nuddin" and that they had a host of "Brits" assuring them the product was a surefire winner and desperate to sell it under licence.
18 months later and no-one seems to be selling it. You can't get it fuggin anywhere! :laugh:
Got to agree with the comments about Probst kit. It is damned good stuff, of the highest quality, but the pricing is hard to justify. To be fair, their main competitor, Optimas, also make damned good kit, but they have a pitiful distribution deak for Britain and Ireland and its easier to get their kit from the continent than it is from the so-called official GB/RoI licensee.
Be wary of some fake Probst kit being sold on a certain auction site. Claiming to hail from Eastern Europe, the photos and description are definitely Probst but at least three contractors that have splashed out on the too-good-to-be-true prices have been grossly disappointed with the crap supplied.
