1995 Claas telehandler

[melted welly]

old scrapper of a Sanderson teleporter. That’d be considered at the absolute cutting edge of telehandler technology by our friends across the Atlantic, they love a high boomed underpowered blind c-unit of a machine.

 

[Gerbert]

€9558 before taxes. Slightly insane I would think.

 

[zero]

Manitou or JCB every time over an old 1130 sanderson. only sandersons worth buying are the 623, 624, 726 manual 4 speed versions but even then they are all very old and knackered and certain parts are becoming a major issue now.

Some manitou models i would avoid are

ALL of the OLD MB type masted machines upto early 90s.

OLD MSI masted models from the 90s

All BT or buggiescopic models BT 420 BT 425 for example

MLT 626 series 1 and 2

MLT 1337 and 1637 from the mid to late 90s (later 00's ones better)

So if your still using a Sanderson 622 most days which rare parts should I keep an eye out for just in case...?

 

[George Mitchell]

What was wrong with a targo? Cat based was it not?

Designed by Sanderson just before Claas bought them, Claas then sold the manufacturing rights to Cat, dont know why... Probably to shut the factory. Supposedly the last models were pretty good after Cat got their boys to fix the shitty mistakes. We had a Sanderson TL6, largely a decent machine, the JCB gearbox let it down in the end. Now on a Cat TH407 which just hit 10000hrs, fantastic machine

 

[ACEngineering]

So if your still using a Sanderson 622 most days which rare parts should I keep an eye out for just in case...?

Loads of stuff not made any more and getting worse, especially if you have an early one with dry disc brakes. on the other hand why worry about stock piling random parts for such an old machine put it towards a slightly newer model ideally from a company that still exsists. Unless your wanting to start a museum

 

[Clive]

I thought that the ranger was the first claas coloured telehandler.
Who made this and is it any good?

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Sanderson -we had one, it was awful in every respect

 

[Fendtbro]

Designed by Sanderson just before Claas bought them, Claas then sold the manufacturing rights to Cat, dont know why... Probably to shut the factory. Supposedly the last models were pretty good after Cat got their boys to fix the shitty mistakes. We had a Sanderson TL6, largely a decent machine, the JCB gearbox let it down in the end. Now on a Cat TH407 which just hit 10000hrs, fantastic machine

Local contractor had a Targo, Had a few issues but probably down to previous owner. Much better to drive than JCB with it's light servo joystick versus jcb's stiff numb controller..

 

[George Mitchell]

Local contractor had a Targo, Had a few issues but probably down to previous owner. Much better to drive than JCB with it's light servo joystick versus jcb's stiff numb controller..

Yeah, sometimes a machines reputation has more to do with the owners than the product. Wouldnt have anything other than electro, have a Cat 434e backhoe with servos and I'll take the lighter handler controls any day. And all cable control valves are garbage, regardless of brand

 

[collywol]

Sanderson -we had one, it was awful in every respect

They were better than handballing 20 tons of nitram off a lorry by your self at 5pm

 

[zero]

Loads of stuff not made any more and getting worse, especially if you have an early one with dry disc brakes. on the other hand why worry about stock piling random parts for such an old machine put it towards a slightly newer model ideally from a company that still exsists. Unless your wanting to start a museum

Sanderson -we had one, it was awful in every respect

Granted there not perfect but it's the cheapest way I'll ever look after a few cows and load a bit of corn, and it just keeps plodding away without a flamin computer to throw a wobbler like my neighbours machines do.

 

[Clive]

They were better than handballing 20 tons of nitram off a lorry by your self at 5pm

yep - will concede that one !

to be fair to it we had to big a grain bucket on it and a potato box rotator - on the un even sloping yard we had back then they made for a rather scary / unstable experience

 

[Shakey Stevens]

what is parts availability like for Sanderson?

Not bad really. I have used Truckmasters and they are really good. Just got me handbrake pads and hub seals and brake seals no problem, that i was told would be really hard yo source. They have all the old drawings etc and have nearly all the parts to hand. Only thing they said they couldn't get were body panels.

 

[ACEngineering]

Not bad really. I have used Truckmasters and they are really good. Just got me handbrake pads and hub seals and brake seals no problem, that i was told would be really hard yo source. They have all the old drawings etc and have nearly all the parts to hand. Only thing they said they couldn't get were body panels.

theres loads of stuff they cant get, you just had an easy list there.