Wow this video just came up on my feed again - I remember watching it a year ago when you posted it and now we have our own engcon and love it - cheers mate 🍻 👏
Bit of a warning though. Here in sweden we have used the tilt rotator for many years and it has gone so far that you will never get hired if you not have a TR mounted on machines from 3 tons an upward.That results in people that worked outside the machine (the guy with the shuffle and laser stick) ... ((i don´t know what you call them in ennlish)) misses out on many jobs. Becaus the more the excavator can do alone, the more the excavator gonna have to do alone.The demand of doing everything by your self just gets higher and higher. So you dont´t need the guy outside the excavator in many cases. And thats bad for the machine owner. He has to buy this new expensive equipment that sometime breaks, and can hardly even get paied for this equipment. And it doesn´t stop here. Now it slowly but surely gets in to next level equipment for the same size machines. Namely machine control! I don´t know if you heard of it is. It is a gps based system that shows you exactly where your bucket are in relative to planet earth. And this system costs about the same as a big TR... if not more. AND it will take away even more jobs from the outside guy, + it soon will be the same story as it is with the TR. Everybody´s gonna demand it. If you don´t have it, somebody else will get the job. And you will loose hours, cus the job is going faster. Don´t get me wrong. I also use TR and I can hardly work without it theese days. I just saying that it might hurt you as a machine owner. If you look to the US you might think they have old and crappy non electronic machines, but if you think about it... it creates work for the machine + sometimes 3 guys outside doing different stuff. They might be on the right path :)
Yes I see your point alot more people are using machine control GPS now and it is a very expensive addition. I see they use alot of older machines in the US which I think is great it's a shame that so many good reliable machines have to be exported because people aren't able to use them any more on sites!
Fantastic overview. Would like to order a reconditioned unit also for my wheeled excavator. Care to share contacts of the fellow who reconditioned your engcon?
@@DIGcardinal by the way, where did you source your used engcon from, what did you look out for, at what cost should I expect to get a decent one and how much did the engineer charge for reconditioning it? What would you say was your total cost for all including installation on your excavator? Your guidance is invaluable, thanks again, perhaps these queries are ideas for your next video?:)
@@LexMasita j Hull plant engineers supplied and fitted it for me. They did everything from start to finish. The way prices are going I wouldn't want to put any figures on here as I could be way off, ALOT depends on the spec you want aswel as there is more cost in having top hitch and ec oil etc etc
Wow this video just came up on my feed again - I remember watching it a year ago when you posted it and now we have our own engcon and love it - cheers mate 🍻 👏
Bit of a warning though. Here in sweden we have used the tilt rotator for many years and it has gone so far that you will never get hired if you not have a TR mounted on machines from 3 tons an upward.That results in people that worked outside the machine (the guy with the shuffle and laser stick) ... ((i don´t know what you call them in ennlish)) misses out on many jobs. Becaus the more the excavator can do alone, the more the excavator gonna have to do alone.The demand of doing everything by your self just gets higher and higher. So you dont´t need the guy outside the excavator in many cases. And thats bad for the machine owner. He has to buy this new expensive equipment that sometime breaks, and can hardly even get paied for this equipment.
And it doesn´t stop here. Now it slowly but surely gets in to next level equipment for the same size machines. Namely machine control! I don´t know if you heard of it is. It is a gps based system that shows you exactly where your bucket are in relative to planet earth. And this system costs about the same as a big TR... if not more. AND it will take away even more jobs from the outside guy, + it soon will be the same story as it is with the TR. Everybody´s gonna demand it. If you don´t have it, somebody else will get the job. And you will loose hours, cus the job is going faster.
Don´t get me wrong. I also use TR and I can hardly work without it theese days. I just saying that it might hurt you as a machine owner.
If you look to the US you might think they have old and crappy non electronic machines, but if you think about it... it creates work for the machine + sometimes 3 guys outside doing different stuff.
They might be on the right path :)
Yes I see your point alot more people are using machine control GPS now and it is a very expensive addition. I see they use alot of older machines in the US which I think is great it's a shame that so many good reliable machines have to be exported because people aren't able to use them any more on sites!
Fantastic overview. Would like to order a reconditioned unit also for my wheeled excavator. Care to share contacts of the fellow who reconditioned your engcon?
@@LexMasita yes his company is J Hull plant engineers. Based in north west England. Easy to find on Facebook and Instagram
@@DIGcardinal thank you.
@@DIGcardinal by the way, where did you source your used engcon from, what did you look out for, at what cost should I expect to get a decent one and how much did the engineer charge for reconditioning it? What would you say was your total cost for all including installation on your excavator? Your guidance is invaluable, thanks again, perhaps these queries are ideas for your next video?:)
@@LexMasita j Hull plant engineers supplied and fitted it for me. They did everything from start to finish. The way prices are going I wouldn't want to put any figures on here as I could be way off, ALOT depends on the spec you want aswel as there is more cost in having top hitch and ec oil etc etc
Dieing to use one of these!
Where you based or where is that man based with the recon units ?
I'm based in Lancashire, j hull plant engineers is who I got the engcon off. You'll find him on Facebook
Rototilt is the Best!
Borrower is slave to the lender
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Get a better camera mount, at least we could see
I'm sold, does your man ship to the USA? 😂
He might enjoy a trip 🤣