Long reach excavators

[Bucket on wheels]

Pulled the Joystick on this a couple of weeks last year

Moved the masses 37m by turning around

[muckyman]

Drag line is best but easier said than done to drive one needs serious skill so think I think I would go the vc 20 route if you can find one.i learnt on a priestman 90 rubber duck

[V8Druid]

Originally Posted by muckyman

Drag line is best but easier said than done to drive one needs serious skill so think I think I would go the vc 20 route if you can find one.i learnt on a priestman 90 rubber duck

doesn't take that long to get you head around .... becoming an aficionado takes a bit more practice
Haul yer fair lead/drag in, let her go and drop yer winch out just before she reaches full swing,
catch the winch wire and haul in the fairlead/drag, easing the winch out as she comes back, 'til you want to pick the box out;
hold the winch brake pedal and up she comes, easing the winch as required.

Swing around and tip below the cathead, by easing the fairlead/drag out, haul in, come around and go again

[pond digger]

All I can add is that I have a JCB 818 with 15m reach, and in my view an 18t machine isn't heavy enough for such a stretch.

I would guess you won't find anything more planted than a VC20: they don't make em like they used to.

[grahams]

We have been hiring a Komatsu PC210LC with a 15m reach and that seems pretty stable. Very smooth hydraulics, nice machine in general apart from the quick hitch.
Graham

[Alicurly]

There's a 38rb for auction at ANM thainstone tomorrow.
http://www.anmarts.co.uk/event-details.cfm/eID/260

Originally Posted by V8Druid

I do tend to agree with you ... looks a little small, but googled 38s and this came up as a 38 ??

this is deffo a 38



and here's a 30




OOOOPS!!!

[V8Druid]

Originally Posted by Alicurly

There's a 38rb for auction at ANM thainstone tomorrow.
http://www.anmarts.co.uk/event-details.cfm/eID/260

nice ..... but that's the wimp's model .... air controls

[robex 210]

Last 38 I worked with was all air operated controls.
Loading trucks in a quarry.

[800CLC]

Don't know what the parts availability will be of a VC20 but they might also be better suited tough-ish digging conditions with it's rope crowd system. The 290 won't have the best digging forces and a lot smaller bucket capacity. And sadly with the demise of the 'VC' system the only other way to counter the smaller bucket and decreased digging forces is to go bigger. I ran a John Deere/Hitachi 850 long reach a couple years ago at an oil sands operation and I quite liked it. But if that's not an option there is nothing wrong with a dragline I know a young fella that's running one of the newer Liebherr hydraulic draglines in a gravel operation.