Takeuchi Excavators

[catnick]

Have driven a couple of TB125s, lovely little machines. Being a bricklayer I dont drive many machines, but they were so easy to drive, got the hang of them very quickly. A great fan of JCB, but if I were to buy a mini digger, probably opt for Takeuchi. Driven a couple of other makes as well, but not a patch on Takeuchi.

Nick

[Nick Drew]

Hi Catnick!! Great name by the way!!

A big welcome to CMN and thanks for posting here.

Yes I totally agree with you Takeuchi are without doubt the best mini excavators

Nick

[tone_rmz250]

yeah il 2nd that! to be honest jcb's mini range is awful to drive (in my opinion)!

[Nick Drew]

Here is a brand new Takeuchi TB145 that I am going to be operating for a while, it was delivered today and I will start operating it from tomorrow on a self employed basis.

I was kind of hoping to get my own new 13 ton machine on hire to this company ADS Groundworks but for the moment they have decided to buy there own small machine, but I am optimistic that in time there will be an opening for my machine plans

In the meantime I will enjoy running and looking after this cracking little machine

Nick

[tone_rmz250]

looks a beauty mate i hate the first dig/blade with a new machine, the paints all shinny and fresh and 1 bucket full and it all goes away! haha but thats just me SAD!

[Nick Drew]

Well the new Takeuchi got a bit dirty today on my first day on it !!

I know its been said before but they really are fantastic little machines

I find it amazing that before these latest grey & red models dealers were hard pushed to sell the Takeuchi range

Nick

[Wilko]

Here are the machines in our small hire fleet

TB 108


TB 016 Canopy


TB 016 Cab


TB 125

[IBH]

Nice photos and the Takeuchi's look well cared for

[Tracshovel]

Good little topic here.

To answer some of our Scandinavian friends questions about tilting buckets and rotators not used or wanted on UK spec machines.

Most of these machines are out on plant hire (rental) - We would not get any more hire/rental rate if it had a tilt/rotator on it! What we would get is more problems - more damage, more hassle. The extra cost of the rotator would not be recovered in the hire rate or life time running cost of the machine. Hire companies don't want to push them because then all the customers would want them - again for no extra cost.

Another factor is that many of the operators of these machines are either new starts, just passed their ticket or just thick. To give them a tilt/rotator to work would be the end of them. They have enough problems holding on to the hire as it is. (we do have some top class drivers on machines but they are getting thin on the ground these days)

[Robban_C]

Thanks Trac for your explanation.

The market in Scandinavia looks quite different. Most machines are driven by their owners. We talk about "one machine owners". They drive their own machines and usually no one else drives that machine. I am one of those one machine owners. My machine are almost only driven by me or my dad.

So I would say that a one machine owner (if there are any) in GB should have a tiltrotator or at least a tilting grading bucket. That would give them a competitive edge.
And I totally agree that the rental fleet only should have "stiff" buckets.