Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Mine has that side lifitng kit as well adds lot of weight .
pivot steer telehandlers
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
The pivots are great loading bales use the steering as a side shift .
- Location
- Middle of nowhere, Pembrokeshire
Advantage of a pivot,
All round visibility, except when the boom is raised.
Very maneuverable, life or place items around corners.
Spacious cab with high seating position.
Disadvantage of a pivot,
Not as nimble as a rigid
Lacks lift height and reach
Poor at towing
Expensive for the spec.
I changed from a JCB 310s pivot to a JCB 542,70 fws back in July.
For the same money I now have a loader with an extra tonne of lift and two meters extra lift height.
Would I change back to a pivot, maybe, never say never.
At the moment I'm really enjoying the fws machine.
Straw merchant commented last week that I'm faster unloading his lorry with the fws loader than the 310s.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Have you not got used to it yet and keep pushing it off other side of wagon
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ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
I think the tyres last longer on a pivot , they aren't scrubbing all the time
Double or more life.
ollie989898
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I'd say a lot of tyre wear on handlers comes from too much right foot, especially dunging out where the front axle starts wanting to slip.
ollie989898
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Those spreadabales are sore on any handler I would say. Definitely a job for a heavier loader.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Heavier , its 4 ton lift machjne how heavy hou want me to go ? How heavy is your machine that operates your spreadable ?
ollie989898
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
No use whats so ever actually .
that's a behemoth of a machinePivot steer with more reach you saythey didnt catch on
try that in a UK yard
- Location
- Down
Try running on clean dry concrete an artic and a rigid at similar speeds /anges in a circle ,and without any doubt their will be less rubber left by the artic irrespective off the right foot
ollie989898
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Of course it will, imagine dunging out- one bucket load and done.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
aye right o , a skid steer probably run rings round it 
ACEngineering
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- Location
- Oxon
that's a behemoth of a machine
I did! i was a dealer for them and this was the very first UK demo and only one to come to UK of this new model when it came out. NON of this model sold in uk BUT it paved the way for another model still with 5ton lift but a single boom and instead of 180hp 6cylinder they used a more compact 180hp 4 cylinder. BUT by the time that reached production i had given up with them anyway. NOT because the machines were bad but because at the time they didnt have good enough road performace and they all had wierd tyre sizes on so no one wanted to buy them around me, PLUS the new sales rep really pee'd me off so i thought sod it i dont need this hassle anymore.
I seem to recall the rough price of that one being about £120k at the time. Seems quite cheap now really considering the metal and amount of parts in it!
My L70 plays with the spread a bale,7t lift and loads of hydraulic flow.
I would have no problem with feeding cattle in sheds after a day with that. All sheds demolished
- Location
- Co. Antrim
Have a weidemann 5080 here, find it a great loader and an alternative to the 320s although I don’t think the price difference is much in them now, 5080 would eat the 320 on the sheargrab when we had one out a few years ago