fds - 2/28/2022 19:20 Thinking about buying telehandler to use around the farm. I have used them for lifting before but would it work good with snow pusher for clearing driveway or bucket? Have a 4020 with loader now with chains wondered if tele would need chains to get through deep snow and if transmission would handle pushing snow very well? Any brands better than others looking at gehl, genie/terex I have the thick end of 35 years experience with ag spec telehandlers on farms in the UK. The vast majority of farms here have one and those farms will grind to a halt if the loader stops. I've used JCB, Matbro, Manitou,Cat, Merlo, Sanderson and Teleshift. Buy JCB or Manitou, there's not much to choose between them. You need ag spec. Most of those Genie, Terex, Skytrac things are little more than glorified cranes. Ag spec have better cabs, better hydraulics, better tyres, maybe a rear pickup hitch and trailer brakes, hydraulic locking pins and more engine power. Despite what people on here, who haven't a fraction of the experience I have with them, these machines are built to work. The people that complain that they bought a telehandler, broke it and a wheel loader is better, didn't buy the right machine.Both JCB and Manitou have machines for agriculture that will lift 6 tonnes. Magni go up to 25 tonnes. This is the one we have https://www.manitou.com/en-GB/our-machines/agricultural-telehandlers... I'll attach some photos from my phone As far as pushing goes, an ag spec one will have no trouble with snow. All our wheat is stored on the floor. We push it up to the height of about 10 feet, this requires the boom to be fully out and we have a 5 metre pusher on the end of that. We have to take a run at it, with the engine flat out. There's about 3,000 tonnes to to each year during harvest. The machine we just got rid of did 14 harvests. I've also pushed up and loaded thousands of tonnes of sugar beet with JCB's, Matbros, Sanderson and a Merlo. All were were to the limits and all were no trouble. Our machines have a pickup hitch, trailer brakes and light sockets, so we can tow trailers.
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