sanderson tx525 teleporter

[Johny Walker]

I do know of a Manitou for about £6k + VAT if you're interested?

 

yes intrested

[Ian C]

That will be good,what engine did manitou run?

[Fentiger]

Perkins Phaser, well pleased with the one I found:thumbup1:

[rustcutter]

On one of these Sanderson threads not long back; I made some comments regarding these machines and was asked to comment further as I used to work on them. I said my friend had a TX525 which I hadn't taken much notice of but I said I would enquire. I had a look it has 100ish h.p. turbo Perkins; Ford never option on this model so no design compromise.

We had a couple of jobs to do with it; one was to flip a flat balanced commercial trailer plated as 7 tonnes unladen on its side to weld underneath. It accomplished this without fuss and we actually tried to lift the chassis off the ground with the jib in the full up position and using the boom extension ram managed to just get the thing off the ground. This is quite impressive performance really!

However that job done we then had to recover a dead army lorry 11 tons from a sodden wet clay field. This ground is treacherous and in wet the soil has the texture of the contents of a grease bucket; County, Muir-Hill and International BTD6 feature in the assorted horse power on the holding as an indicator of prevailing conditions. The TX525 crossed this field without fuss but could not tow the lorry even with about a ton for ballast on the forks but we found that it would easily lift the front end but still not sufficient traction; we managed to push the truck about 25 yds using the boom extension ram truck wheels sinking about 4 inches through the grass and two wheels stuck not turning. This is pretty good testament to the performance of this sometimes unjustly maligned machine. However point proved, we gave up and used 10 ton winch on tractor to recover the lorry a further 100 yds across the worst of the field back to terra firma.

I hope this field testing report is helpful and informative.