r/heavyequipment

Customer CAT 12H just rolled out of the shop with the CAT Centennial Gray.

I have never seen a backhoe with that attachment. It does have the boom, stick and like additional boom and stick and the bucket.

Any impact experts here?

I’ve been wondering for a long time how these crushers perform in hard rock. Everyone says they wear fast. How fast?

Not a single impact crusher in my area. Nobody to ask.

We run all quarry rock, but very low volumes. I need maybe 5000-10000 tonnes per year. Hard to justify a cone for it.

I have a wheeled 24x42 jaw we use for 4” minus. Need 3/4” minus.

Can anyone offer an opinion? Tired of asking salesmen.

Hi everyone, first time buyer.

I'm considering to buy a small excavator (under 2 tons) for some small works near my house: trenches for water and sewers, ditches, edges maintainance and, once or twice in it's life, put a hammer on it to break some concrete.

I would like to be able to use a small mulcher to keep the edges (around 1 km total) clean.

I don't need fancy cabin with AC, a simple canopy is enough.

I have some kobelko, wacker-neuson and takeuchi dealers near me.

Today I've visited a couple of them and they gave me these offers (new, + VAT 22%):

Kobelko sk17sr ( I think 3rd generation) 25.000 + VAT

Wacker-newsom EZ17 21.000+VAT

Wacker-Newsom ET18 28.000 + VAT

The wacker seller was more convincing, but after some research I've seen there are some "problems", like the piston position on the back instead on the front. The ET18 has a VOS system to keep it orizontal, but I don't think I'll ever need this feature and I'm also concerned that this extra component will need extra maintainance (and eventually need to be replaced, one day).

The Kobelko guy talked less. The machine was new, but looked "older" than WS models. The boom cylinder was in the right positions and the machine looked sturdier.

I did not visited takeuchi dealer yet, but I have seen that many of their machines have the boom cylinder on the cabin side. I've seen onlyne that this is sub optimal, especially for small and not so powerful mini excavators.

Kobelko offers a subscription maintainance plan for 1000 euros/year that includes oil and filter changes, and extend warranty up to 4000 hours.

WN has a standard warranty.

Any suggestion? Any other brand I should look for?

Thank you in advance!

I’m getting conflicting answers - online everything is saying “no” but I’ve heard from people who “think” they remember them fitting.

Anyone have any (recen) real world experience??

This is my private Bobcat TL470XHF.

Used mostly for my garden.

Sitting in it right now, for making some wood refurbishing.

Love it.