Best headstock for telehandlers?

[marco]

What's the best headstock for ease of hooking up, strength etc?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Manitou are very easy to hook up ,especially with hydraulic looking pins

 

[vantage]

especially with hydraulic looking pins

The most important thing!

 

[Bullring]

Pin and cone, surprised it hasn’t become the euro headstock of handlers.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

rprised it hasn’t become the euro headstock of handlers.

this^^

matbro/pin and cone definitely best imo,

cat ok similar to jcb tool carrier which i currently run as i could not find a pin cone headstock for my jcb

jcb q fit stronger but not great for visibility not a big fan,

personally i think manitiou is worst of the lot.

 

[spin cycle]

i wish the makers would just have a common standard one

 

[Pringles]

With a change of breed we moved from cone and pin to Q-fit, it is so much better.

Cone and pin seems to give the bucket brackets a lot more abuse which leads to dangerously worn connection points.

We have Q-fit buckets now more than 16 years old with daisy fresh brackets, so I am afraid that I reckon that Q-fit should be the standard fit headstock.

Good job that we are all different!!

 

[Chae1]

Best one would be one that matches your attachments.

 

[ACEngineering]

What's the best headstock for ease of hooking up, strength etc?

No contest it's a Manitou!

 

[shumungus]

Vote for Pin and Cone here.

 

[shumungus]

No contest it's a Manitou!

With a Pin and Cone Headstock.

 

[Farma Parma]

Pin n cone end of.
Had hydraulic locking pins here on both yes ive only had two telehandlers since 1987

 

[ACEngineering]

With a Pin and Cone Headstock.

No. but Pin and cone would be my second choice

I cant stand Q fit. The frame is far too big and the pins way too small.

CNH is a reverse of manitou so that's also good but not common.

Sanderson is very poor! Was okay on 2.5 ton machines but not really good enough for modern machines.

JCB Tool carrier is good on smaller machines

CAT is okay although theres a few variations depending on age of machine!

Actually I think if money no object and was on a 4ton plus machine I would go for the Volvo euro hitch! Nice shape and lovely big pins

 

[bobk]

All of them , piece of cake , try putting a massey header on ......

 

[An Gof]

First handler was pin and gone and haven’t looked to change since. Mind you would be a helluva task now with all the attachments we have

 

[Farma Parma]

No. but Pin and cone would be my second choice

I cant stand Q fit. The frame is far too big and the pins way too small.

CNH is a reverse of manitou so that's also good but not common.

Sanderson is very poor! Was okay on 2.5 ton machines but not really good enough for modern machines.

JCB Tool carrier is good on smaller machines

CAT is okay although theres a few variations depending on age of machine!

Actually I think if money no object and was on a 4ton plus machine I would go for the Volvo euro hitch! Nice shape and lovely big pins

I like an honest view esp from someone in the game of fixing telehandlers
but i agree JCB Q-fit looks a handfull right enuff.

 

[ACEngineering]

Spining the question round a Merlo headstock has to be the worst surely

 

[Farma Parma]

Spining the question round a Merlo headstock has to be the worst surely

Thats why mine had the cherry conversion from new !!! i never liked the idea of that single pin & its hidden away you dont know if its locked or not

 

[ACEngineering]

I like an honest view esp from someone in the game of fixing telehandlers
but i agree JCB Q-fit looks a handfull right enuff.

The manitou is probably the simplest and easiest/cheapest to manufacture I would think

Qfit , Matbro, Sanderson would be among the most complicated and more expensive to manufacture I would say.

 

[Farma Parma]

Been a good un this so far anyways its well made

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