Which mewp do you prefer ?

[AlanK]

16 hours ago, aspenarb said:

I dont think there is one mewp that does everything well, big outreach normally goes hand in hand with more weight or footprint. Would help to know what type of work its intended for.

Edit. intended use has been answered.

 

Bob

Sure, I don't think too, there is always trades-off

[maybelateron]

Hi Stuart,

 

I couldn't access the link you put up, I guess it was a photo.

 

I have attached a photo of the trailer I move the mewp on, unloaded I'm afraid.

It is a Bateson 35CP tilt bed, £5,500 + VAT this January, direct from Bateson. I load it so the basket partly overhangs the rear of the trailer. This is so I can get the tracks in the best place for balance. It would fit with the basket at the front over the a frame, with no overhang, but I would worry about the basket touching the tow vehicle with extreme angles when reversing.

Prior to this trailer I was using a Meredith 7 Eyre triaxle, with wheles under and detachable ramps. Really solid build, but a more tedious job to load/unload, and more potential for accidents when doing so.

The Bateson is very quick to tilt with a hand pump (have to move mewp back a little first to ease the load on the pressure release valve in the pump).

Both trailers are 16ft bed length. Triaxle is 6ft6 bed width, tilt bed is 5ft wide.

I would say they are equally stable towing behind the Hilux, but both would have bulllied my Disco 2 above 45mph. On the other hand Disco was shorter for better shunting around. 

Hope this is of some help. What mewp have you settled on?

 

Charles

[Ty Korrigan]

Ah! Now I understand what you meant by full width ramps.

I was thinking you had a plant trailer.

I've not found a machine as yet.

There was an interesting Teupen for €50k near Hamburg but I couldn't time a visit before my holidays.

I viewed a Spider Platform in the flesh at a local dealership but other than that the 18-20m catagory are thin on the ground in West France.

I begin my quest again in two weeks. 

 

  

 

[tim361]

Sorry to jump in and hijack the thread. I’m also looking into getting a mewp later in the year when funds allow. Would anyone be able to help me with which are the better brands to be looking at and if there are any to avoid? Will be looking to buy second hand unless I can either find or a good deal or you get very good warranty cover when new. Also would you look at better machines with more hours over a cheaper machine with less? This is a completely new area for me so have little to no experience with purchasing these. 

[Ty Korrigan]

33 minutes ago, tim361 said:

Sorry to jump in and hijack the thread. I’m also looking into getting a mewp later in the year when funds allow. Would anyone be able to help me with which are the better brands to be looking at and if there are any to avoid? Will be looking to buy second hand unless I can either find or a good deal or you get very good warranty cover when new. Also would you look at better machines with more hours over a cheaper machine with less? This is a completely new area for me so have little to no experience with purchasing these. 

 

As am I, all at sea myself with every decent looking machine a thousand miles away across Europe.

The French do not understand the word 'depreciation' and have told me to my face several times that they ship their used machines out of Europe.

The Italians won't answer my emails but I can call the Dutch and Germans and speak in English, better stock too.

Anything in the Baltic states was probably stolen from France and Germany anyway.

Anything in Ukraine certainly was.

 

Edited May 6 by Ty Korrigan

[maybelateron]

My previous mewp was a 1996 Aerial K16T which some may regard as a dinosaur. It had 16m height, 8m outreach, 24v battery power and Kubota diesel power. Very solidly built. Minimal safety switches - just sensors on each leg to check pressing on ground, and a sensor so you could only adjust legs "when the boom was fully down". In other words, much more at operator's discretion (OMG, I didn't really say that did I?).

Now I have a tracked mewp with more ability but more safety hoops to jump through.

However my new machine does have the option to cut the wire seals and bypass all the safety settings - ideal to get it back on the trailer or off the level crossing etc. Then get main agent to sort out the underlying problem.

Stuart, suggest try contacting CMC lift via?

[email protected]

 

[JonnoR]

On 06/05/2024 at 20:09, Ty Korrigan said:

 

The Italians won't answer my emails but I can call the Dutch and Germans and speak in English, better stock too.

 

 

Same experience for me, further south.  I gave up trying to get French distributors of two-wheeled tractors to quote me - beyond some dodgy guy who obviously works for the French distributor  but seemed to be trying to sell me his demo model - 'we don't usually sell direct to customers, but in this instance etc etc'.  The Dutch are way more proactive