The Digger Picture Thread

[Gerbert]

Dutch made hooby, who recognizes on what they are based.

 

[Digger73]

looks like jcb hydradig base unit

 

[sticky]

Dutch made hooby, who recognizes on what they are based.

Fastrac.

 

[Gerbert]

looks like jcb hydradig base unit

First times a charm.

 

[Gerbert]

Eclictic electric. Volvo electric digger with tilty swively and grapple. As I am told totally useless.

 

[nick...]

Eclictic electric. Volvo electric digger with tilty swively and grapple. As I am told totally useless.

My local Volvo dealer tried to sell me one back in jan when I enquired about a change.could not get a price but expected 50% more than diesel and max of 4 hours work before flat battery.be no use to me as I usually do between 7/9 hours each time I’m out.sure they will sell for inside and city work but not for me.woukd like the steel wrist but probably £15k plus on top of machine price and my customers won’t pay anymore for one.
nick…

 

[Gerbert]

All kinds of idiocy with carbon going on here, that's the only reason it is there. They also have a whole bunch of electric tools for blockpaving, wacker vibratory compactor and vibratory plate, milwaukee electric cut off saw and even an electric mini loader (which did the job well or so they told me).
In short, for some (or maybe all, I don't know) groundworks it is mandatory to put a whole bunch of imaginary numbers of assumed co2 output together and come up with a "co2 ladder". When groundworks are taken on sometimes companies must lower said imaginary numbers by using electric equipment and thus getting a lower number on the co2 ladder.
I think there is certainly something positive to say on using electric equipment: keeping the noise down. But when you purely buy it to fool the numbers, which is a fool's game in and of itself, then you are simply pissíng not only your own, but everyone's money down the drain because all this crap is paid by everyone. On the other hand, paying taxes is pretty much that, píssing money down the drain in the hopes some droplets will fertilise the ground around it.

 

[robs1]

My local Volvo dealer tried to sell me one back in jan when I enquired about a change.could not get a price but expected 50% more than diesel and max of 4 hours work before flat battery.be no use to me as I usually do between 7/9 hours each time I’m out.sure they will sell for inside and city work but not for me.woukd like the steel wrist but probably £15k plus on top of machine price and my customers won’t pay anymore for one.
nick…

Be perfect for council work one charge would last a wk

 

[Wombat]

Be perfect for council work one charge would last a wk

Even better for the EA that one charge might get it to trade in

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Even better for the EA that one charge might get it to trade in

shame they weren't using one in Cambridge then on the 100 foot drain!!!

 

[Boomerang]

All kinds of idiocy with carbon going on here, that's the only reason it is there. They also have a whole bunch of electric tools for blockpaving, wacker vibratory compactor and vibratory plate, milwaukee electric cut off saw and even an electric mini loader (which did the job well or so they told me).
In short, for some (or maybe all, I don't know) groundworks it is mandatory to put a whole bunch of imaginary numbers of assumed co2 output together and come up with a "co2 ladder". When groundworks are taken on sometimes companies must lower said imaginary numbers by using electric equipment and thus getting a lower number on the co2 ladder.
I think there is certainly something positive to say on using electric equipment: keeping the noise down. But when you purely buy it to fool the numbers, which is a fool's game in and of itself, then you are simply pissíng not only your own, but everyone's money down the drain because all this crap is paid by everyone. On the other hand, paying taxes is pretty much that, píssing money down the drain in the hopes some droplets will fertilise the ground around it.

Isn't that the same as Clive (hes not tbe only one doing it)selling carbon offset ,sequestration or what ever it is to utility companies so they can tick a "green" box.
Whilst actually doing nothing at all to benefit the environment, they are not reducing their carbon footprint ,just paper shuffling , whilst Clive and others laugh whilst earning a few quid. Clives fields are doing nothing different and neither are the big utilities or corporations .
It's all smoke and mirrors rubbish.

 

[Boomerang]

Isn't that the same as Clive (hes not tbe only one doing it)selling carbon offset ,sequestration or what ever it is to utility companies so they can tick a "green" box.
Whilst actually doing nothing at all to benefit the environment, they are not reducing their carbon footprint ,just paper shuffling , whilst Clive and others laugh whilst earning a few quid. Clives fields are doing nothing different and neither are the big utilities or corporations .
It's all smoke and mirrors rubbish.

I didn't type rubbish more PC b@@$*$ks

 

[Gerbert]

No it's a bit different. The bullockks with carbon offset is doing nothing and expecting good will. This is doing something but the gains are questionable at best when they don't account for making those electric machines or producing the electricity.

 

[HG2702]

3 machines I’ve owned cat 302 cr is an absolute dream they’ve made the cab so comfy and everything’s just seems to have been thought about. The Takeuchi 216 was a good machine I was just a bit naive buying it should of tried one first. And the tb016 was lovely wish I’d never sold it !

 

[Dave6170]

Cracking sunset and a cracking little digger

 

[Gerbert]

Local contractors' diggers. Most of them anyway.

A nice look on the evolution of digger quickhitches. The middle one with only a quickhitch, the right one with rotator and the left one with tilting rotator with gripper.
The hitches are cw type which is typically dutch.

 

[Wsquire]

The machine I get the pleasure of operating and calling my own! Steep learning curve the last 6 months with gps and tiltrotator on this one to confuse me!

 

[CPF]

The machine I get the pleasure of operating and calling my own! Steep learning curve the last 6 months with gps and tiltrotator on this one to confuse me!

Are you on HS2?

 

[Wsquire]

Are you on HS2?

No thankfully! Wouldn’t want anything to do with it. Runs about 5 miles from our yard though!
We are farmers and run a groundwork’s business aswell

 

[Zetor]

Got carried away at an online auction and bought this rusty case unseen.
Feeling a little deflated I got a local company to paint it, 4800hrs, generous spec of 2x auxiliary lines, auxiliary pump and a prolec system.
Really happy with the outcome it’s now going to have to earn its keep