Opinions on the best farm loader .

james ds

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leinster
A neighbour with 1000 cattle is looking for a new loader to do the yard work, fill a diet feeder as quick as possible . He’s looking at a bobcat tl38.70hf. Anyone any experience of these loaders or other options .
 

marco

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A neighbour with 1000 cattle is looking for a new loader to do the yard work, fill a diet feeder as quick as possible . He’s looking at a bobcat tl38.70hf. Anyone any experience of these loaders or other options .
If you search bobcat loaders on here and there is no complaints about their reliability. Whey were selling them with a 5 year warranty, think it might be back to 3 year now they have started selling afew of them. @Hard Graft knows men running two of those in a big feedlot and they have been bullet proof.
 

Runs Like a Deere

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Mixed Farmer
We have a TL3060 bobcat and have absolutely no complaints with the machine at all. As said above they were coming with a 5 year warranty for a while and now its three years standard with the option for five I believe.
 

Hard Graft

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BASE UK Member
Location
British Isles
If you search bobcat loaders on here and there is no complaints about their reliability. Whey were selling them with a 5 year warranty, think it might be back to 3 year now they have started selling afew of them. @Hard Graft knows men running two of those in a big feedlot and they have been bullet proof.
yep they are very good as the feed lot is hard on kit as they are livestock farmers one will have over 10k hours in 4/ 5 years and yes their are break downs but they do not get the love and care and grease. They need they only do the feeding as a 16t track machine clean the sheds out
 

james ds

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Location
leinster
yep they are very good as the feed lot is hard on kit as they are livestock farmers one will have over 10k hours in 4/ 5 years and yes their are break downs but they do not get the love and care and grease. They need they only do the feeding as a 16t track machine clean the sheds out
What sort of break downs did it give .
 

Hard Graft

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BASE UK Member
Location
British Isles
What sort of break downs did it give .
i don't drive them often but hear from the lads and off from their independent mechanic and the owners as they in my yard every day but its nothing to to major the newest cracked the croud check valve body,
it been the dealer back up that been the issue not the machine so much so that the independent uses another one for parts and advice.
 
If you think a 5 year warranty covers everything down to each nut and bolt you'll be disappointed check whats actually covered and what hoops you have to jump through to keep it. (That's not say they are or are not reliable it's just extended warranties are a big part of marketing side of a sale).
 

Runs Like a Deere

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Mixed Farmer
If you think a 5 year warranty covers everything down to each nut and bolt you'll be disappointed check whats actually covered and what hoops you have to jump through to keep it. (That's not say they are or are not reliable it's just extended warranties are a big part of marketing side of a sale).

Got it in writing from the dealer that absolutely everything is covered for the full term of the warranty (5 years) and to maintain warranty 1000hr services must be done by them but 500hr services can be done by us using parts from them.

So far can't fault the dealer either so I have no concerns that they will honour the commitment
 

Scots_Knight

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Arable Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
There's lots of posts about Bobcats on here and plenty on farms up here, I'm yet to see an owner come on and saying anything really bad about them, generally most owners seem happy.

Lots of Aberdeenshire and further North members so an open goal if they were annoyed.

I'm not knocking any other make but I must say I do really like my 30.60 a nice simple, compact yet surprisingly powerful machine.

Yes Bobcat weren't daft and priced them to sell but that's got plenty on farm, it's probably converted some and seeing so many locally does boost confidence in the product.

Worth a serious look even if it's not the machine for you, it's not as if all the other main makes are perfect.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
What are Bobcat parts prices like?

I remember a farmer who raved about his Terex loader, until he bought the first spare part: £70 for a wiper blade, and that was about 20 years ago. Strangely they didn't catch on.
 

Wellytrack

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What are Bobcat parts prices like?

I remember a farmer who raved about his Terex loader, until he bought the first spare part: £70 for a wiper blade, and that was about 20 years ago. Strangely they didn't catch on.

Terex largely took over old Matbro designs, I say largely as there were some loaders that came from the Finley linage too.

Generally they were good loaders, just sold in small numbers.
 

Runs Like a Deere

Member
Mixed Farmer
What are Bobcat parts prices like?

I remember a farmer who raved about his Terex loader, until he bought the first spare part: £70 for a wiper blade, and that was about 20 years ago. Strangely they didn't catch on.
Difficult one to answer as we have only had service items and a door glass :cry:

But nothing was obviously expensive compared to other brands
 

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