Mini Digger

You'll get heartship for that money, tbh I think your wasting your time. Neighbour hired a 13 tonne case (relatively new) digger there last week for 550 euro. Got a site of work done and sent it off again. This week alone I've put 2 hydraulic hoes and a battery in my 6 tonne .... be better off hiring a machine sometimes i do wonder

This is 1 of your best options I think too. If it’s only a garden you’re doing it’s madness to be a worn out mini digger to try and do it.

Hire a decent digger for a week and get it done. Or if you’re not experienced driving diggers hire a good man on a 3cx or 4cx and let them do it rather than wasting time rooting around if you’re not tasty on a digger.

in 2008 i bought a 2.7 ton digger . my dad laughted at me . lads told me , just hire one out , get a lad in with one an experienced operator will do 3 times the work in the same time . the work that digger has done since i bought it is crazy . everything from loading stone and gravel to hedgecutting, i have a grab for it . at the time i was 24 no house no land no experience .

last week i bought a 14 ton digger as land im buying needs some work and my dad was like . feck it your right cant you tip away when you have time and sell it when your finished

on a mini digger your not going to buy much for 5k and realistic you need 2.5ton plus but you might buy an old jcb 3cx with forks on the bucket (4 in 1 bucket) or an old massey , ford or case equivalent.

how much were 20ft and 10ft containers making ?

bought a dry straight enough 20ft container for €900 a few weeks ago. €300 then for a lorry and hiab . the 14ton diggger was on top of its head to lift it here when i was moving it to the final spot. it was 2.4ton empty

What about getting a backhoe for your tractor? Or are these a waste of time?

Don't know if they'd have been the same Chinese diggers, but for all the same reasons as the OP, I opted to buy one rather than rent. 1t machine with a variety of attachments. Possibly the best 8k I've ever spent on "tools & equipment", delivered right to my door from China, put into service the next day and never shied away from anything I've asked it to do - digging trenches, shifting stone, ripping out tree-roots, lifting massive oak trunks, cutting roadways through scrubby woodland, general landscaping. Next on the list is setting fence-posts; then on to breaking concrete ...

Yes, the controls are simple levers and out in front of you, but I'd have spent a week of 10-hour days on it with no problems, either for myself or the machine. The real only downside is a stupid arrangement of the engine making it damn near impossible to get to the filters, but that's something I'll sort out when I lift the safety cage off to fit some new lights.

An Alibaba ad popped up on my screen when I was looking into the costs of renting. At the time, I was trying to figure out what jobs I could line up for what period of time to get the best value out of a rental. The headline price on the ad seemed too good to be true, as it suggested that owning a machine outright could be cheaper than renting one for two or three weeks (with no guarantee that I could use it for the whole rental period due to weather/change of plans/whatever).

But I followed up on the ad, found that there are several suppliers on Alibaba that sell individual machines to private purchasers, and went with one that responded quickly to direct e-mails. I paid (in dollars) with a bank-to-bank transfer from my Revolut account. I had (still have) a named contact in the company, who sent me step-by-step confirmations as and when the machine was dispatched from the factory, delivered to the port, loaded on board (with ship tracking number) and offloaded in Cherbourg (my "local" port, only 400km away), at which point I got an e-mail from the freight forwarder with the customs & VAT charges (exactly as forecast by the Chinese company) who then organised the final delivery.

I'll get back to you on that in a few days - packing up at the moment to go earn a crust at the other end of the country.

westmeath , it was a private sale from the back of a pub. it was dry and no damage as they use to store furniture in it but needed the room back

so will all taxes charges, haulage what was the price of the digger

Hi
I am having problems with tracking my Kubota KH90..

1. fresh gear oil added to one of the final drives as it was low
2. both tracks now travel very slowly for about 20 yards and stop
3. revving the engine actually slows down the track speed!!!

Any initial thoughts as what could be the problem or is the process of elimination in terms of troubleshooting the root cause of this please?

I put gear oil into the hub where the gears are housed, it wasn’t working before that and hub was more or less empty , hydraulic oil goes into the motor side that drives shaft

I have very limited experience in this regard (and hoping not to have to learn in a hurry), but it sounds like a leaky seal on the hydraulic/drive circuit allowing back-flow of oil. As heat and pressure build up, the greater the leak and the less power transferred to the gears. This certainly happens with the rams on the digging arm when seals start to fail, so I'd imagine it'd be something similar.

This is super interesting. Could you also DM me the contact detail you use?

How do you get on with oil / air filters etc. ? Get a stock at the time of purchase and go from there or does she take common / spurious ones?

Any issues with it?