Telehandler lift height for loading high sided lorry.

[Ds Tree services]

Just in the process of buying a Telehandler could anyone tell me the lift height required to load a walking floor lorry, the one i am looking at is 5.9m lift?? Cheers 

[Khriss]

They are pretty tall. If yr using a grain bucket, will need more room to nod it down, to empty it. K

[dumper]

Will be ok if you use toe tip bucket, we load with std grain bucket and can tip over side but bucket dips into body of lorry so needs bit of thought to get full load.

[aspenarb]

If it’s needed to load chip into a high cube walking floor you will need something a bit bigger, at 6mts you won’t be able to tip in the centre of the truck bed and it will be a faff to get an evenly distributed load.

 

Bob

[openspaceman]

On 30/09/2020 at 11:32, dumper said:

Will be ok if you use toe tip bucket, we load with std grain bucket and can tip over side but bucket dips into body of lorry so needs bit of thought to get full load.

Yes we used a loading shovel with a tip-on-the-lip grain bucket, 17 lifts to 24 tonne, the JCB 535 also did it easily but 54 lifts to the load with standard bucket.

[Ds Tree services]

Cheers for the feedback men i am going for a jcb 530-70 it has a 7m reach.

[Danny Boy]

I think 4.8m is the actual height of an artic.

I've got to get a telehandler too now & 7m is ideal I'd say [emoji106]

Damn expensive machines to buy 2nd hand in the current climate....