Opico Skidster or sherpa mini loaders

[GA Groundcare]

We have a new Jansen KL200 loader with log grab coming into stock should anyone be interested, £6,500 + VAT.

[doobin]

16 hours ago, GA Groundcare said:

We have a new Jansen KL200 loader with log grab coming into stock should anyone be interested, £6,500 + VAT.

No wonder frank alviti have stopped importing the micro bull!

 

there’s some seriously cheap little loaders coming out of China currently. No reason for every firm not to own one, they are the cheapest man on the job. 
 

Although you should import them with a larger engine, 9hp and 2.5km/h (not mph!) is going to be too slow for anyone here to entertain. 

Edited Friday at 02:25 by doobin

[doobin]

Quite a few of the Jansen type went through euros directly from China last month. I was watching to bid on something else and they were beforehand, must have been a hundred. Copies of Ditch witch, micro bull, Vermeer, every brand! I’m almost tempted to grab one next auction. 

 

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[GA Groundcare]

10 hours ago, doobin said:

No wonder frank alviti have stopped importing the micro bull!

 

there’s some seriously cheap little loaders coming out of China currently. No reason for every firm not to own one, they are the cheapest man on the job. 
 

Although you should import them with a larger engine, 9hp and 2.5km/h (not mph!) is going to be too slow for anyone here to entertain. 

 

Jansen are based in Germany, not sure exactly where they are built though. We had an existing customer wishing to purchase that exact machine but we had to order two to hit the min order requirement. So hence we've a spare coming in. 

[doobin]

2 hours ago, GA Groundcare said:

 

Jansen are based in Germany, not sure exactly where they are built though. We had an existing customer wishing to purchase that exact machine but we had to order two to hit the min order requirement. So hence we've a spare coming in. 

Jansen is excellent ‘ze German quality’ branding on Chinese imports. Same product ranges as Lumag in the UK.  I particularly like their smiling Germans in overalls on their website. Possibly they assemble a few bits on site in order to claim ‘manufactured in Germany’. 

If they were built in Germany then MicroPelle would sue the pants off them for trademark infringement I reckon. 
 

@Dave Alviti- how come you stopped importing the micro bull?

 

[Dan Maynard]

I've used a Jansen chipper. Chinese not German built.

[doobin]

On 13/02/2026 at 22:11, Dan Maynard said:

I've used a Jansen chipper. Chinese not German built.

I think some of the stuff coming out of China now is quite impressive. They  are clearly desperate to sell stuff, hence the tactic of shoving container loads into auction and taking whatever they are bid! It avoids import duties, and they do it both here and in the states. Lots of attachments coming through too. 
 

These generations of micro skid steers took much better quality than the Carter/Rippa micro diggers of a few years ago. Im actually seriously tempted. 

[Dan Maynard]

5 hours ago, doobin said:

some of the stuff coming out of China now is quite impressive

It's true, talking to people in the engineering world the Chinese have made so much investment in everything from education to automation and factory infrastructure that they undoubtedly can make good stuff, or if we want it cheap they can make it cheap.

[Mark Bolam]

Good and cheap?

[doobin]

3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Good and cheap?

Value for money, possibly?