Griff Enduroloc Webs

[Gav]

Is anyone on here having issues with the above webs on destoners this year? We've been plagued by issues with bars snapping after doing as little as 20 acres and premature "H" piece failure with them cracking/splitting after only a few acres. Its now starting to put a real dent in machine output as we are spending so much time replacing webs, bars and joiners due to the faults and causing a lot of frustration in the process.

In case anyone isn't sure if they have this type of web, this is the one in question.

http://www.griffchains.co.uk/enduroloc.html

 

[Darren]

Are they a lot cheaper than genuine?

 

[Gav]

They are the genuine webs for at least two manufacturers of destoners.

 

[Darren]

They are the genuine webs for at least two manufacturers of destoners.

What machines are you running them on? We had same sort of problems with some spaldings webs a few yrs ago.
Sounds like they've used wrong grade of metal?

 

[Gav]

Ours is a Standen Uniweb machine, we were thinking that the rods were too hard hence why they are snapping.

 

[Darren]

Sounds like that could be the cause. Nothing worse than web problems. Never a 5 min repair

 

[Gav]

No they're not, we now keep a spare rivet in rod and some bolts on the shelf to fit them just in case but todays breakage was the rod welded to the joiner (and last nights for that matter but that web has done 450 acres and was on a wing and a prayer, todays one has done 30 acres!).......we don't usually keep them as they last all season if not two seasons on our 150 acres.

 

[Darren]

I don't miss potato planting if I'm honest.

 

[Gav]

After the season we're having I won't be missing it either!

 

[Darren]

Can't be worse than the past two can it?

 

[Gav]

Ground conditions aren't too bad but the destoner is causing us big headaches this year, we've had issues with the webs since new which we've been working with Griff and Standens over but this year is by far the worst one we've had in the three years we've owned the machine. The destoner itself is a good bit of kit and does a good job but its being seriously let down by the webs this year.

This was the result of a bar breaking the other day on a web that had done just under 100 acres, was a real pain to cut out of there!

 

[Norfolk Olly]

We run 6 uniwebs and they have run fairly well this season (been running since mid October). Scrubber webs seem to be giving most problems tbh. Our H pieces are still from our spares stock from last year and are not cracking but wearing out.
We try to swap webs around to get most life, so once the 1st is starting to look tired we swap it to the 3rd and it'll keep going for a few weeks longer, this way the web that works the hardest is usually the newest.

 

[Gav]

We can only swap the first with the second one on ours as we're running 42 42 36 36, the plan was to swap the first for the second as we've been waiting for a 4 belt 1st web to be designed and built since last May but it still hasn't materialised, the 3 belt ones just don't seem to be able to cope with our soil/flint in this area.

Are you running the fixed scrubber or the Variweb on yours?

 

[Norfolk Olly]

We run variwebs, and on some of the heavier spud ground they are great but can get stones stuck and damage easily