Thinking of going to look at this 8t excavator

[chester]

What our your opinions of make and firm selling please? Main uses would be ditching and tree shears.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Doosan use to be Daewoo and they were never any trouble ,

 

[Zebbedee]

Ditches and tree shear would normally dictate a larger machine with more reach,, but depends on the size of ditches on your farm really the company is well known so shouldn’t be a problem

 

[L P]

Doosan are popular in Ireland, nice enough machines to drive. McLeans are a good bunch

 

[chester]

Or this

 

[Oscar]

McLean s are 100% , good as you can get .
Kellands plant just down the road from you are dealers for Doosan so handy for parts ?
Got a couple local Kubota machines around me , good machines . Both owners have stopped using Devon based dealer ( don t know name ) but are using Gloucester or South Wales dealer instead .

 

[organicguy]

I have the Doosan
Love it, I'm a farmer not contractor so I might love anything. Knuckle is brilliant for ditching. Use a tree shear, it is fine. More reach and power for shear can be useful but handy size is a bigger advantage

 

[Cobblers]

Super firm ,honest and straight

 

[KB6930]

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This looks like it's got more services piped already . I've a jcb and had to do a bit of pipework to run a rotating grab and can't have a rotating tree shear due to lack of services so next time I'd be looking to future proof at the time of charging. This might not matter to you but just a thought .

 

[Boysground]

Won’t go wrong with Mcleans

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[clbarclay]

Ditches and tree shear would normally dictate a larger machine with more reach,, but depends on the size of ditches on your farm really the company is well known so shouldn’t be a problem

One of the facts of life about owning a digger is that there will always be jobs where a size or two bigger or smaller would be better suited.

A 5 tonner manages ditching and shearing for me, though I wouldn't mind replacing it with a 35 tonner that would be rather more awkward for any to steal. I never leave the 5 tonner out around the farm over night now. Also had plenty of jobs which were enough of a squeeze with the 5 tonner.

 

[335d]

Now nothing about the firm but grassmen have done a few videos on them. Look like a good firm who shift a lot of stuff

 

[S J H]

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They’re a good firm as well, bought one from them in the summer and he was sound to deal with.