Which 1.5 tonne digger?

[Hay Farmer]

I’ve got a building job to get done. Rather than hire a 1.5 t mini digger for say 9 months, I’m considering buying one and keeping it for about year. Thinking of spending up to £8k plus vat but ideally the less the better. It won’t have a huge amount of work to do, just several fiddly small jobs that my other digger is too big for.

Alternatively is there anything out there for say £4K max, that would start and be reasonably cheap to repair that I could buy and keep?

 

[Hesston4860s]

Takeuchi TB016, about as good as you’ll get in the 1.5 - 5 ton class !.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Kubota ,

 

[bobk]

Kubota 1.7 tonner , rip the nadgers off a jcb .

 

[Wurzeetoo]

As said above both are so much better than a jcb equivalent. @Hesston4860s is it the Takeuchi that has quick track? Was a life changer after crawling along on the jcb!

 

[Hesston4860s]

As said above both are so much better than a jcb equivalent. @Hesston4860s is it the Takeuchi that has quick track? Was a life changer after crawling along on the jcb!

Takeuchi usually all have 2 speed tracking, but most of the others do aswell.