so what ticket(s) are you going to need for this then ?????

[V8Druid]

" JCB describes it as three machines in one: a forklift, a crane and an access platform. " .... their 'new' recipes for disaster

Reaching new heights

JCB has unveiled a new rotating telehandler designed very much with ‘modern methods of construction’ in mind. David Taylor reports

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[Quattromike]

Where do i place my order

 

[Brendan]

Some bit of kit but looks very big compared to a conventional telehandler. Remote control is pretty cool the bigger version has been on sale for couple of years but from their hp example the new one is........

190k

 

[Smiffy]

Some bit of kit but looks very big compared to a conventional telehandler. Remote control is pretty cool the bigger version has been on sale for couple of years but from their hp example the new one is........

190k

I shouldn't think it matters as much as just sit it still in the site entrance and never have to move it until it leaves. Take a bit of organization I would think and probably better on small sites of 3 or less houses.


I remember as a kid watching all the sites as we drove around France every house being built seemed to have a little self erecting tower crane, I don't know if they still work like that, but I think this would be A similar working style

 

[Splosh]

Very similar to a Dieci Pegasus, which has been around for a few years.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Very similar to a Dieci Pegasus, which has been around for a few years.

Quite a few people are running Merlo Rotos (which have also been around for a while now) with tree shears and grapple saws to sort roadside trees - they’ve become pretty popular over the last two or three years in the UK but have been used that way on the continent for a long time.
This JCB is their version of the Merlo/Manitou/Dieci competitor machines.

 

[GazCro]

Re tickets needed i think it depends how you use it. I think there may be a telehandler ticket to cover roto handler as long as you're using forks to pick stuff up. A lot of rotos are equipped with hyd winch on fork carriage, anything suspended off cable they become a crane as far as I'm aware.
There was a company had bought several last year and were advertising for crane drivers to operate them. I guess due to not being hugely common until recently they are a bit of a grey area in some ways/ flying under radar.

 

[wee_gus]

We just been out to a dieci Pegasus this week and they have orderd the new 26mtr Jcb and cost 245k, they build houses in kit form and it saves on they hiring a crane for the rooof trusses apparently

 

[JD450A]

360' Telescopic Handler ticket required.

There pretty common tbh, Versatile but not as great as you'd think.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

360' Telescopic Handler ticket required.

There pretty common tbh, Versatile but not as great as you'd think.

They are very heavy - you wouldn’t want to venture anywhere off decent ground!

 

[Bri963]

I saw one of these in Watlings three or four weeks ago. It had the winch as an attachment on the quick hitch and just powered off the auxiliaries. I can see telehandler drivers being told to get in and operate these with no crane training. Just waiting for the first one to go over when the “can you just…” brigade get hold of one.

 

[DaveDCB]

they are a very expensive(easily breakable) bit of kit to just send out on self drive willy nilly! I’d say 99% of them will be ordered for a specific job and hopefully have a decent operator lined up already!

 

[Lynchy]

Changed couple years back due to most 360 telehandlers being used with a winch had to do update 360 test and underslung lifting,pretty common now,used to be good money,as with most things,people jumped in n money went down

 

[fred]

had a look at the manitou version couple years ago, very versatile for a stoned up site but massive and so much electrickery in the cab to go wrong....