13 tonne excavator. What to buy?
- Thread starter JPM
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Wishing you success with it
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Thank you
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Thats a plus for them then imo !
Be safer with a low houred hymac,
Won’t find a better machine to spend the day in !
something like a 580d would do you well
Great looking yoke. Health to use sir
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
What is on top of the roof?
Pop up tent for when he finishes late…or vandal guards
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Does it still have to do with catholic against protestant or just general assholery?
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
It started as catholic v Protestant now it’s just asshole v asshole, they’re all only interested in selling drugs etc just gangs these days not para military forces
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
I suppose it's better then killing but less then ideal.
I did rummage in that history a while ago but I couldn't get my head around it, just sad.
Enjoy the excavator though!
spanners and hammers
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
just to go off slightly , anybody any opinons/advice on flails , was thinking of using one on my 2.5 mini for trimming our own hedges around a acre paddock as i dont really have a tractor big enough for a proper hedge cutter and thought this may be a option 
ste stuart
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- Location
- bolton
It possible no doubt, but before you even start don’t think you’ll stick the flail out and go tracking along, they won’t do it, you have to do a section and move alon.just to go off slightly , anybody any opinons/advice on flails , was thinking of using one on my 2.5 mini for trimming our own hedges around a acre paddock as i dont really have a tractor big enough for a proper hedge cutter and thought this may be a option
I’ve a flail on a 2 ton which is alright, from these lot https://robustrack.co.uk/ it’s not the fastest thing but does the job, but bare in mind you on a machine that’s around 20hp at the engine driving oil pumps so your never gonna get the performance of a mcconnell on a 100hp tracto.
For my bigger machine I’ve a slanetrac mower that’s more like a bladed topper, I prefer it to a flail for a lot of stuff, it’s really simply built and doesn’t seem as power hungry as a flail, mines the fh100 model and when we get the chance I’m gonna try it on my mates 2.7 ton kubota as I think it will drive it. They do an fh80 which I think a 2.5 ton machine would boss easily.
you can do some fairly heavy stuff if you take your time
spanners and hammers
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
thanks for the advise i did think that would be the case as it only for myself it might still 
be a option
be a option
- Location
- West Sussex
I run a flail on my 8t, it’s a beast for mincing down the briars and thick stuff. Not sure I’d want to do a lot of hedge sides with it. Obviously you’re swinging in an arc so you’d need to do very small sections at a time to keep it even.just to go off slightly , anybody any opinons/advice on flails , was thinking of using one on my 2.5 mini for trimming our own hedges around a acre paddock as i dont really have a tractor big enough for a proper hedge cutter and thought this may be a option
I can track and flail at the same time but the geometry of the flail means I need the dipper a long way out to get it upright so that makes tracking in a straight line difficult. Could alter the pins to improve this.
That said, it is possible and if all you’ve got to do is one paddock then it’ll be fine
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Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Is that the same place in the photo's? If yes: wow!I run a flail on my 8t, it’s a beast for mincing down the briars and thick stuff. Not sure I’d want to do a lot of hedge sides with it. Obviously you’re swinging in an arc so you’d need to do very small sections at a time to keep it even.
I can track and flail at the same time but the geometry of the flail means I need the dipper a long way out to get it upright so that makes tracking in a straight line difficult. Could alter the pins to improve this.
That said, it is possible and if all you’ve got to do is one paddock then it’ll be fine
- Location
- West Sussex
Same field, not exactly the same spot but it was all badly overgrown to start with.
I’ll see if I can find any other photos