Teupen 23gt or Hinowa 20.10 ?

[William Clifford]

Still searching for my mewp.

 

How useful is a jib on a mewp? I've never used a machine without one and use it a lot when positioning in the past, but am considering a Teupen 23gt. It doesn't have a jib at the end and wondering how much difference that makes to getting past a branch into the tree for example deadwooding? For crown reduction I'm sure it wouldn't make so much difference..

 

The Teupen has a few extra metres height and a couple of meters better outreach, but no jib. 

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks.

[monkeybusiness]

The UK Teupen service agents are useless, and the machines are massively complicated. 
I can’t comment on the others as I have no personal experience. 

[William Clifford]

I've heard that said before. Wouldn't a decent independent business (got a couple in mind) be able to smooth over the service agent downfalls. Or is it that they'd struggle to get the parts etc from them?

[monkeybusiness]

4 minutes ago, William Clifford said:

I've heard that said before. Wouldn't a decent independent business (got a couple in mind) be able to smooth over the service agent downfalls. Or is it that they'd struggle to get the parts etc from them?

I think you have to go through them for parts - there is quite a lot of machine-specific bits on them.

If buying new you should be ok - I’d steer well clear of second hand though personally, it’s a potentially very expensive minefield with no option to shop around.