New arrival - Tb180 fr

[Dave_L]

Took delivery of my new machine today, don't want to use it and get it dirty!!!

The offset boom is awesome to use, so so versatile!

[msh paving]

Wow looks good is that a 6 ton? i run 3ton bobcat's but that looks the buisness MSH

[bobbi o]

nice bit of kit. you doing a lot of groundworks these days?

[GB_Groundworks]

very nice indeed, read really good things about it in earthmovers, you can move pivot point from one side of machine to the other can't you. that must have set you back best part of £30k??

will you lend it me to play with i promise i wont get it dirty haha

i want the 8 ton kubota, santa are you listening......

[mickg]

wow thats a cool looking bit of kit there Dave

is that instead of the barber green

[Dave_L]

It's an 8 tonner - yes for groundworks & bulk excavation work together for use as a loading shovel back at our yard, you can see the 80t of crushed concrete beside it and 500t of type1 behind it - when the 5 ton machine is out on site (ideal size) we only have a 3 ton machine to load wagons back at the yard.

The offset boom is very versatile, initially find it odd having it swinging around in from of you!

[lutonlagerlout]

the bloke who does our digging uses takeuchi and swears by them,his 3 tonner will dig a trench 2.7 m deep at a push!
i expect that baby would do 4 m dave?
nice kit
LLL

ps found a 3 yr old one on ebay 8 tonner link
reckon daves must have been 30+ for a brand spanker



Edited By lutonlagerlout on 1260977400

[rab1]

nice bit of kit mate, dont really know that much about diggers but it looks the muts. now tell the truth here, will you be out polishing it this weekend?. ???

[Dave_L]

Haven't actually dug with it yet but the specs indicate a 4m+ digging depth!

Seems a shame to get it dirty, it's a habit of ours to have a picture of every new machine before it does any work with the family/children etc - pictures for the scrapbook to look back on in the future.

Got a pic of my daughter when she was about two with our three ton machine, snapped a pic just before she turned a whacked her head on a bucket tooth! Never forget that time.

[Dave_L]

found a 3 yr old one on ebay 8 tonner link
reckon daves must have been 30+ for a brand spanker

Ah thats the standard TB175 model (non zero tailswing) machine Tony - and 4000 hrs! She's done some work!

We had a good deal on this machine; there is a backlong of them in the UK as obviously the site machine market has/had collapsed.

[Pablo]

Cracking machine my local plant hire has one. They replaced the king pin over the summer for a cool 5 grand you have been warned.

[Dave_L]

Yeah it needs to be kept well greased, but that suits us as we grease our machines daily - whereas hired plant often comes to us dry of grease and creaking!

Plus the radiator etc needs to be kept clean and dust free as the fairly compact engine bay needs decent airflow to remain cool.

[GB_Groundworks]

Dave do you not run a 2cx or small loading shovel, thought most blacktop lads had the obligatory trackair haha

[dig dug dan]

nice machine dave. Not seen one like that. your tarmac business must be doing ok for splashing out on something like this!

Was there a good finance deal on it?

[bobbi o]

nice machine dave. Not seen one like that. your tarmac business must be doing ok for splashing out on something like this!

Was there a good finance deal on it?

Black Gold's trading at a record high dont'y'know !