Second Hand Telehandlers

MickeyShtyles

How yee now! There's a wee guide in this week's Farmer's Weekly on what to look out for when going about buying a second hand telehandler..... :P

weatherbyfoxer

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

How yee now! There's a wee guide in this week's Farmer's Weekly on what to look out for when going about buying a second hand telehandler..... :P

Must pick one up next time im in the shop getting fags....would like to pick up a telehandler and flog the tractor and loader in the near future

MickeyShtyles

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

Must pick one up next time im in the shop getting fags....would like to pick up a telehandler and flog the tractor and loader in the near future

They've covered three common models, a Manitou, a JCB and a Merlo. Its fairly good now.

weatherbyfoxer

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

They've covered three common models, a Manitou, a JCB and a Merlo. Its fairly good now.

Definitely go for a jcb or manitou myself

Suckler

I was tempted by a few Matbro telerams I saw on Donedeal recently, Any use?

weatherbyfoxer

Suckler wrote: »

I was tempted by a few Matbro telerams I saw on Donedeal recently, Any use?

No exspert myself but I don't generally buy big things like teleporters that arnt made anymore,I reckon parts would be rare and exspensive...hope someone can say otherwise because a tr 200 looks like a nice tidy machine thst can be picked up at decent money

Sharpshooter82

FIL just took delivery of a secondhand JCB telehandler yesterday

iverjohnston

With jcb you have some very good parts suppliers in this country. Conaty in Kells and Gormley equipment down in Wexford have never failed to have anything I needed in stock. that's for a 1989 machine.

Insp. Harry Callahan

Have a 1994 tr200 here for the last 12 years here, great machine to have about, has done a serious amount of work so far, got new bushions for it last year

delaval

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

Definitely go for a jcb or manitou myself

If you have any regard for your money steer clear of Manitou (centre pivot) post 08

Earlier models not bad post 08 only dung and that's from bitter personal experience

JCB Is the way to go, more expensive but for a reason

MFdaveIreland

Suckler wrote: »

I was tempted by a few Matbro telerams I saw on Donedeal recently, Any use?

Nope

MFdaveIreland

Insp. Harry Callahan wrote: »

Have a 1994 tr200 here for the last 12 years here, great machine to have about, has done a serious amount of work so far, got new bushions for it last year

Everyone has different experiences, I have used the matbro t200 and terex t200 , biggest heaps of Shi#e I have used, I'm not yell bent on a brand. Lets just say after a 'person'. I know was changing from a heap of .... Matbro. Happened to say changing to something similar ie terex, I said if I were u I wud go jcb or Kramer, nice machines, got terex anyway, nothing but bother since day one, every single week, might be accelerated by lack of maintenance but still a bag of junk

otisleeomal

the jcb 530/70 from the late 90's/ early 00's as shown in that farmers weekly article are generally a pretty good tool and fairly reliable and would definitely be my choice in that price range bracket. Straightforward machine and handy enough to get parts for, probably will hold its value pretty well at this stage too. Put about 500 hours a year on one of these and it never lets me down.(quickly looking for wood to touch!)

Insp. Harry Callahan

Really?, it must have been seriously abused by a previous owner!, only thing apart from getting bushions made that we had to do was to get the injector pump done up!, 12 years trouble free, just me and my dad that drive it though , never hashed about or anything like that.

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Everyone has different experiences, I have used the matbro t200 and terex t200 , biggest heaps of Shi#e I have used, I'm not yell bent on a brand. Lets just say after a 'person'. I know was changing from a heap of .... Matbro. Happened to say changing to something similar ie terex, I said if I were u I wud go jcb or Kramer, nice machines, got terex anyway, nothing but bother since day one, every single week, might be accelerated by lack of maintenance but still a bag of junk

Muckit

Is towing with a telehandler a big no no?

MFdaveIreland

Insp. Harry Callahan wrote: »

Really?, it must have been seriously abused by a previous owner!, only thing apart from getting bushions made that we had to do was to get the injector pump done up!, 12 years trouble free, just me and my dad that drive it though , never hashed about or anything like that.

You're probably right, and current owners not great either lol, still not a great machine in my opinion, could never understood why cab was slanted, hard to get in and out of quickly

delaval

Muckit wrote: »

Is towing with a telehandler a big no no?

On older models it kills them.
On newer ones, Jcb anyway there's a torque lock it the top 2 gears, only fit for pulling a load of straw or a light load. I wouldn't dream of putting 17 wraps behind it????

jersey101

I drew straw for a whole day with a jcb tm 310, 10mile draw with 20 bales a load. You need your wits around you for that

MFdaveIreland

Would u men and women think that a farm would be better with handler, and tractor or tractor loader combo. And it would it depend on scale /??

tabby aspreme

jersey101 wrote: »

I drew straw for a whole day with a jcb tm 310, 10mile draw with 20 bales a load. You need your wits around you for that

You need to be careful towing loads of straw with anything rear engined as the exhaust is blowing back onto the load, saw a load on fire last spring on the road with the lad unloading the burning bales as fast as he could

jersey101

tabby aspreme wrote: »

You need to be careful towing loads of straw with anything rear engined as the exhaust is blowing back onto the load, saw a load on fire last spring on the road with the lad unloading the burning bales as fast as he could

these bales were fairly damp would be hard for them to burn up

Zr105

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Would u men and women think that a farm would be better with handler, and tractor or tractor loader combo. And it would it depend on scale /??

That really depends on the farm, if your just doing loader work around the yard id say handler, but if going drawing bales etc ideally tractor and loader.

Tractor and handler is handy though as if your speeding dung or fertiliser you can leave spreader on tractor and load with handler!

Zr105

jersey101 wrote: »

I drew straw for a whole day with a jcb tm 310, 10mile draw with 20 bales a load. You need your wits around you for that

You really would need your wits with a 310... Pivot steer an trailer could get very dodgy... Slightest touch of steering wheel and front of trailer jumps around... Even rear steer with trailer can be sketchy if your not used to it

Dont be daft

Zr105 wrote: »

You really would need your wits with a 310... Pivot steer an trailer could get very dodgy... Slightest touch of steering wheel and front of trailer jumps around... Even rear steer with trailer can be sketchy if your not used to it

Try a pivot steer and a dolly trailer.

We had an old doll that we used to bring bales from an outfarm back to the homeplace in Winter with a JCB 412. Add in snow on the road and a full load, it was a nightmare.

Then trying to reverse it :rolleyes:

MFdaveIreland

Zr105 wrote: »

That really depends on the farm, if your just doing loader work around the yard id say handler, but if going drawing bales etc ideally tractor and loader.

Tractor and handler is handy though as if your speeding dung or fertiliser you can leave spreader on tractor and load with handler!

True enough, wud be easy to go overboard with machinery too

delaval

tabby aspreme wrote: »

You need to be careful towing loads of straw with anything rear engined as the exhaust is blowing back onto the load, saw a load on fire last spring on the road with the lad unloading the burning bales as fast as he could

Well if he had a Manitou 628 he would've sat at a safe distance and lit a Hamlet!!!!!