What brand of telehandler will be best for our farm?

[Theswede]

If you are a loading shovel person I imagine most telehandlers will seem poor for real hard loading. The telehandler is a useful piece of kit for multi tasking. I wonder if you could source a straight under 4k hours fairly mainstream marque for half new money and see how you get on?

Yeah, I have been thinking about that as well… but since I am looking to trade in the L60E, its really a one way road I am walking… and since we do lots of hours It will need replacing very soon if we go for one with 4-5000 h. And from previous comments it seems like I need to find a very good example to have luck at those hours.

 

[Theswede]

Most comments seem to underline my previous thoughts of quality and hours on a telehandler. I will of course have to get demos out, but I am leaning more and more to the Liebherr/Claas machine, if it is one our of the lot that would be possible to get big hours from it should be the brand that makes constructionmachines, right?

When it comes to JCB, how is quality on the wheel loaders? In Sweden I am not sure I have ever seen a used JCB wheel loader with over 10 000 hours, while the Volvo is considered to be just ran in at those hours. Although quality have gone down on the Volvo over time, I believe my L70C from 1998 is better built machine than the L60E from 2004.

 

[Roger Perry]

The availability to access a good dealership should help in your decision making making process.
In the UK that makes JCB a favorite while in the U.S. they are not so popular due to dealerships being so strung out.
Here, Cat is the winner in telehandlers.

 

[roscoe erf]

20k hrs plus big ask for a tele I’d say .

Got an old model Jcb on15k but she is now our reserve machine although the mrs prefers it to the newer one