michael N123
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All my yard works done with a 2 speed skidsteer
Telehandler vs tractor for daily chores ?
- Thread starter cousinjack
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Very good point…
I don’t think our handler actually owes us anything…. It has been very reliable over the years…
I had an earlier iteration of one of these, astonishingly good and tough machine. Reach was the only issue, so we now have a small tele Kramer.
I do remember loading a regular grain wagon withe old girl and a toe tip bucket. The driver had timed me secretly, and reckoned it was a lot quicker than side arm teles, which did surprise me. His theory was so much time was being spent on booming in and out???
I think there is a hidden message in this post, but I am not brave enough to pursue it....
tullah
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- Linconshire
But that's not £4 an hour adjusted for inflation. I bought a new car back in 1975 for £1500 and sold it last year for £1500. Shows no depreciation in pounds but it's big depreciation in real terms.
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
I have a JCB 531-70 that has 11000 hours a Claas Scorpion 7045 on 7200 hours both load muck and soil and handle potatoes in the fields both do 1500 hours or more a year but more pertinent to this is our 1980 Manitou Mb 25M which works everyday loading Veg and Potatoes in and out of the store. It cost me £3000 a few years ago but it’s brilliant. I’m with my son on the tractor and loader thing if you want to handle things well get a proper machine.
Fair enough, but the principle stands - inflation affects the tractor as much as the tele
Wellytrack
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I find a lot of time is lost by people shaking the bucket, when full & empty. Master that and loading time is halved.I had an earlier iteration of one of these, astonishingly good and tough machine. Reach was the only issue, so we now have a small tele Kramer.
I do remember loading a regular grain wagon withe old girl and a toe tip bucket. The driver had timed me secretly, and reckoned it was a lot quicker than side arm teles, which did surprise me. His theory was so much time was being spent on booming in and out???
tullah
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- Linconshire
True. If new prices were constant then we'd see real depreciation.
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- Nottingham
You need a older telehander, our Sanderson goes that long between fueling that I forget to fill it up (fuel guage long stopped working)
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
Begs the question why did you stop doing itWe used to fatten 80 bullocks through the winter and rear on 8lves without starting an engine for 6 months. They ate silage off the clamp face in the shed. Bedded with 8 small bales morning and night off the stack next to pen shaken out using hayforks. A few tumbrels about for bags of cake walked in on your back.
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Not really crude, seemed well built, I think it was a 2ton machine but couldnt lift 2 6ookg bags up against the headstock. Just didn’t do what was claimed. Had a couple of hundred hrs on it so I don’t think it was faulty. Maybe okay for a builders yard for a bucket or two of sand,or horse yard. Just my viewToo crude...? I looked at one a couple of years ago as I was on the yard.
Built to a price.... which is a hell of a lot less than mainstream kit! I was interested to see some OK reviews for them from real users.
Probably not like living in muck and silage effluent... but what does
Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
exactly, 27000 in 2003 is actually 38,740 in todays money
The OP really was talking yard use. A fiend of mine runs a fairly modern NH with a big loader. It really is quite awesome in capability both from a driving and handling point of view. He would still prefer a telehandler around the yard if additional cost could be justified. The modern tractor with clutch-less shuttle and brake to stop plus auto/vario is so much different to a manual tractor based on a 1960s design.
tullah
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He didn't suffer all that depreciation in one shot back in 2003 though, so it's not as high as that.
What's that got to do with comparing tractor loaders and telehandlers? Absolutely nothing, because I paid 27 for it, not 38.
Ok I'll humour you.
£38740 - £12000 worth today / 11600hrs is STILL only £2.28/hr.
A late one with a shuttle transmission and a roll bar might be an option, but in the p!ssing rain in the winter?