Favorite Mills

Anyone have much experience with a IR Pro Cut 1000R? Found one for a decent price with 1,800 hrs, I just don't know anything about them :beatsme .

Thanks,

Andy

The only problem I'd have with that machine is that its rubber tire...otherwise IR make a good cutting mofo...

Terex

Well just had a long conversation with Terex, seems they don't know if they want to build any new mills , kind of blew me away. The rep said they've sold off all of their stock and don't plan on resuming production for the foreseeable future unless they get a large order.

i've been around the CATs and the Wirtgens and personally i like the Wirtgens better. grade control is alot nicer IMO along with the operators station.

We are sold on Roadtec Mills. We currently run 20 Mills and 18 of them are Roadtecs. Three factors go into our choice of manufacturer. 1) reliability of equipment 2) Service from the manufacturer 2) Availability and cost of replacement parts. We have been milling since 1974 and have found that Roadtec tops everyone else in this department. Thsi being said, we have 2 Dynapac PL-2000's in our fleet and have been pleased with their dedication to the first 2 criteria in our choice system. The third criteria does not match Roadtec, but they have been repsonsive to our needs.

for the kind of milling you will use it for ANDOMAN i would say a wirtgen w1000 or w1200, they are both great machines, get into tight spots, easy to operate, good power, and as for customer support the parts book is easy to read and very helpful, and when ya call the office in nashville the support guys can walk ya through step by step if ya have something you cant figure out. I like wirtgen just because i dont think there is an easier machine to run in the little mill department. And the w1000 has a drum of 40inches but ya can get a 2foot drum to put in it also.

Smaller Mills

Andoman,
Let me introduce myself, I am David Ando(some coincidence eh?).
Anyway I am president of Turtle Southeast and grew up running mills since I was in H.S. Currently we have a Roadtec RX-400 in our fleet. We traded it in for a Wirtgen W1200FT. We were having a ton of electrical issues with the 1200 which is why we decided to get rid of it. The 400 has superior hp and a bigger conveyor than the 1200 whcih allows us to mill deeper and maintain production. The configuration is the same as the 1200 with the drum to the rear of the mill which allows you to back into corners that can't be accesed with a standard mill. The draw back with this configuration is that there is no visibility on the left side of the mill, this limits the funcionality of the mill when steering from the left side would be necessary. It is kind of a trade off. Since we use this mill only in specialty applications it works for us.

Turtle said:

Andoman,
Let me introduce myself, I am David Ando(some coincidence eh?).
Anyway I am president of Turtle Southeast and grew up running mills since I was in H.S. Currently we have a Roadtec RX-400 in our fleet. We traded it in for a Wirtgen W1200FT. We were having a ton of electrical issues with the 1200 which is why we decided to get rid of it. The 400 has superior hp and a bigger conveyor than the 1200 whcih allows us to mill deeper and maintain production. The configuration is the same as the 1200 with the drum to the rear of the mill which allows you to back into corners that can't be accesed with a standard mill. The draw back with this configuration is that there is no visibility on the left side of the mill, this limits the funcionality of the mill when steering from the left side would be necessary. It is kind of a trade off. Since we use this mill only in specialty applications it works for us.

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I really appreciate your comments, we're currently looking at both the Roadtec RX400 and the Wirtgen W120F. I see what your saying about the limitations of the machines, but the only thing we're going to use the mill for is a specialty applications (which I do about 1 to 3 days a week) and I hope to also use it to mill out patches for some larger big box stores in the area. Right now I'm leaning toward the Roadtec (I'm also looking at buying a paver from them too) for a number of reasons, one big one is I don't like paying for a boat ride the others are comments from local milling contractors. I really have no intention on getting into large production work for the machine, I hope to keep it busy in house with maybe an occasional outside contract, usually my "specialty work provider" only gives me a few days to get out and take care of the problem so dealing with outside milling contractors has been a pain to the point I've been milling out 8000 to 12000 sq.ft. with skid steers to keep my client happy. I'm still running the numbers but I think we're going to pull the trigger this year since it looks like it will be a long term contract.

Roadtec 400

Can't say enough about roadtec's support and willingness to work with it's customers. One major consideration for us is availability of parts and in my book Roadtec has it all over Wirtgen in that department.

What a pleasure it is to have one of the original milling people in America in this forum. Mr Ando Thank you for joining us.

Andoman..thats alot of considerations toward the specialty end of contracting, in doing that by now you already know the backwards ways some the GC's will ask you to do things, best is a mill that know you can throw into a difficult situation and still get what needs done when it needs done with the least amount of problems and/or delays.

Mr Ando points to Roadtec as being the best in service and I'd be inclined to agree, however certain areas of America where we do not see alot of Roadtec products the service end becomes more difficult. Wirtgen service is midgrade at best. CAT have excellent service and a wide service area but in my opinion do not make a user friendly machine.

w2000

Better steering than a 1900 and not as big and heavy as a 21 or 2200. Plus I like the w over dc anyday.

support

If you ever have any troubles just call Nashville( Writgen America) and ask for Erwin, he is a trouble shootn god. Can always get parts over night from them. Just my 2 cents.

kick'n assphalt said:

If you ever have any troubles just call Nashville( Writgen America) and ask for Erwin, he is a trouble shootn god. Can always get parts over night from them. Just my 2 cents.

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Bob is also a human service manual on all Wirtgens, he helps me at least once a month. His father is the bigwig of wirtgen in the netherlands.

DC models are the old versions. The DC2100 had an excellent steering radius, those !900's...well it taught an operator how to use rear steer in situations where it wouldnt usually be needed.

Ya them service techs can talk ya through about anything when your in a jam....good thing the industry clamped down and demanded it over the years.

anybody had any experiance with the roadtec RX-20B's? Came across one the other day and it seems like a strange machine to me. :beatsme

If you see it please get pictures. I saw a RX25 once.

milling_drum said:

If you see it please get pictures. I saw a RX25 once.

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These are off machinery trader, it kind of looks like a bartmill 330 but with only3 wheels???

Never seen a Roadtec like that. Bet there aren't many atall.

You thinking about buying it?

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Never seen a Roadtec like that. Bet there aren't many atall.

You thinking about buying it?

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Not sure, it looks interesting and if I could get a few years out of it before dropping 300k on a RX-400 in a bad economy I might. I have a call into my roadtec guy to see if they do what they're supposed to, I figured maybe someone on here might have experience with one.

If you go look at it, just make sure its got enough leg barrel travel for the type of conditions where you spend the majority of time cutting along the tracks. Depending on how old it is you might wish to modify the sensors a little.