teleporter options

weatherbyfoxer

Have been toying with an idea in my head for the past year lads and would like to hear a few opinions

I have a 05 landini vision with a loader which at the minute which my dad bought new before i finished in ag college.it does about 500 hours of loader work a year with the backend rarely used. It handles 1000 bale of mainly silage,hay and straw,cleans out 12 spans of some very akward straw bedded sheds twice a year and loads all dung into the muck spreader

what I was thinking of doing is selling the tractor which is in exellent condition and buying a small telehandler for what I get for the tractor somting like a jcb 526 or simular...what do ye think lads?...any other recommendations on small loaders?

MFdaveIreland

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

Have been toying with an idea in my head for the past year lads and would like to hear a few opinions

I have a 05 landini vision with a loader which at the minute which my dad bought new before i finished in ag college.it does about 500 hours of loader work a year with the backend rarely used. It handles 1000 bale of mainly silage,hay and straw,cleans out 12 spans of some very akward straw bedded sheds twice a year and loads all dung into the muck spreader

what I was thinking of doing is selling the tractor which is in exellent condition and buying a small telehandler for what I get for the tractor somting like a jcb 526 or simular...what do ye think lads?...any other recommendations on small loaders?

Think the jcb handlers are supposed to be the best from all accounts, I wud recommend against an articulated loader like terex matbro etc, awkward pigs, rest wheel steer or all wheel steer and you wud be laughing, turn on a half penny, good luck regardless

mikefoxo

Why do you feel the need to change from what you already have?

loveta

If you go to a loader you will wonder how you ever survived without one before, had a tractor and loader years back thought it was great till i got a loader "and it was wrecked" :-) jcb is good but pricey, manitou are good but i hear they are awkard worked onn. 4 wheel steer has the best lock but personally i prefer artic steer because you are sitting higher and are not blind on the right by the boom dont know what a 05 landini is worth but ya would want a budget of 20 or 30k or you could be buying another mans problems, what ever you do drive a few different ones to see what best suits ya

Zr105

Sounds like a tele would suit your work better alright, but the only thing is do you have something else to drive spreader etc?
Also tele isn't exactly ideal for going for a load of bales of any sort, as it pulling a trailer kills them, and the other option is either drive out with trailer then go back for tele, or else have another man to drive second machine in and out....

Juniorhurler

Uncle has a fleet of machinery that includes 7 teleporters. The one that he uses most is a small manitou. MLT 523 I think is the number. Had me up 22' in a man basket the other day with it, will lift 3.5 tonnes onto a flat bed lorry and still small enough to go into a 40' container. She is an 06 and as he has 3 mechanics of his own employed full time is maintained to the highest standard. I would love to buy it whenever he is shifting it on but alas I could not justify it as the TL90 and loader can do all I need and with a fragmented farm having to move two machines would be a real pain in the ring.

GRASSorMUCK

loveta wrote: »

If you go to a loader you will wonder how you ever survived without one before, had a tractor and loader years back thought it was great till i got a loader "and it was wrecked" :-) jcb is good but pricey, manitou are good but i hear they are awkard worked onn. 4 wheel steer has the best lock but personally i prefer artic steer because you are sitting higher and are not blind on the right by the boom dont know what a 05 landini is worth but ya would want a budget of 20 or 30k or you could be buying another mans problems, what ever you do drive a few different ones to see what best suits ya

Pretty much + 1
Experience of Jcb's on arable farms are once they get to 5-6k hours they're ragged and need serious attention breaks/gearboxes. Get them hot and work them hard can stink of burnt oil in axels. Get a larger model then you think you need as supprising how often can get caught for boom reach. Make sure suspension works or will be uncomfortable on road

Most people buy Jcb's because they are plentyful and not overly expensive bit like a Valtra/Nh but best telehandler hands down are claas scorpion/kramar machine vario box is awsome when used to it.

MFdaveIreland

Not really related, but would it male more sense to have tractor and loader, or tractor, and a handler seperately, or wud u have to have a certain scale to justify it, just a question

joejobrien

Does anyone know of a reliable garage /contact to source a telleporter in the UK?
Thanks.

loveta

joejobrien wrote: »

Does anyone know of a reliable garage /contact to source a telleporter in the UK?
Thanks.

"UK" do you mean across the water or does that include northern ireland??
if it does Nelson Alexander in toome bridge has a good selection of them.

joejobrien

Preferable in the UK.
will check out a.mills

aidanki

http://www.dermotclancyplantsales.com/index.php/contactus

rs8

keep the landini, you will get very little for it anyway (not runing it down just my experince of them)! buy a matbro, you should get a nice one for 10k -12k on done deal! im fairly sure they have a perkins engine so would be good job! i hate driving a tele as your blind to the boom side!

this is what im going to do next time in changing the tractor as i paid near enough 10k for it and cant get into some sheds, have to get small bags of fert as i dont have 2 tractors etc

weatherbyfoxer

rs8 wrote: »

keep the landini, you will get very little for it anyway (not runing it down just my experince of them)! buy a matbro, you should get a nice one for 10k -12k on done deal! im fairly sure they have a perkins engine so would be good job! i hate driving a tele as your blind to the boom side!

this is what im going to do next time in changing the tractor as i paid near enough 10k for it and cant get into some sheds, have to get small bags of fert as i dont have 2 tractors etc

Landini is worth 25-30k so I should get a decent telehandler for that sort of money already have a 2nd tractor so dont need 2 tractors and a loader....one decent tractor with a loader and a small mf type loader just for cleaning out akward sheds and a bit of feeding would do either

maidhc

What is wrong with keeping the Landini?

bogman_bass

joejobrien wrote: »

Preferable in the UK.
will check out a.mills

Northern Ireland is in the UK bit not part of Great Britain
#justsaying

joejobrien

HA HA!!!:D

severeoversteer

have a few merlos here

mostly for the building sites we have but mighty on the farm yard aswell


the 17m merlo is even nimble

transmission is good

sideshift is invaluable onsite

Lano Lynn

have a manitou 2600 find it excellent would never go back to tractor/loader tele far safer.remember the longer the reach the heavier the machine 20ft more than enough most days around the farm.besides bale n silage n muck great for roof repairs,eave runs n trimming awkward branches etc.

reilig

For people on a budget, there's a guy close to here with a rough terrain forklift on the farm. He has a few attachments for it including a shear grab, muck fork, bale spike, bale carrier and bucket as well as pallet toes. He bought it 2 years ago for Eur6000 and it only had 1500 hours on it - very fresh looking machine (It's a JCB). Very clean machine. He can clean out sheds with it, load the muck spreader, load fertilizer, feed silage, he can even put a doulbe bale carrier on it and stack 2 round bales at a time.

For anyone who doesn't need the reach aspect of a telepporter, it has to be worth consideration!

49801

reilig wrote: »

For people on a budget, there's a guy close to here with a rough terrain forklift on the farm. He has a few attachments for it including a shear grab, muck fork, bale spike, bale carrier and bucket as well as pallet toes. He bought it 2 years ago for Eur6000 and it only had 1500 hours on it - very fresh looking machine (It's a JCB). Very clean machine. He can clean out sheds with it, load the muck spreader, load fertilizer, feed silage, he can even put a doulbe bale carrier on it and stack 2 round bales at a time.

For anyone who doesn't need the reach aspect of a telepporter, it has to be worth consideration!

Thanks,
Often thought a rough terrain fork lift would be a option. Wondered would it have the oil flow for a shear grab. What's size grab is it operating?