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Title: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 9^th, 2021 at 9:37pm

A burning question the World wants to know .........

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 9^th, 2021 at 9:43pm

Here are the contenders

Volvo
Caterpillar
Mustang
Hercules
Yanmar
JCB
Chenggong
Case
Komatsu
Kubota

https://www.machines4u.com.au/mag/australias-top-10-front-end-loader-brands/

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 9^th, 2021 at 9:47pm

We have 2 late entries ..........

Mitsubishi and Hyundai.

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by aquascoot on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 7:06am

Sprint

20 years ago I would have said caterpillars hands down
And case were pretty good back in the day as well
But I think they have merged with an Italian company Farmall
And reliability has gone down the drain

You really can't beat a Kubota in terms of reliability

I would also point out that Yanmar make a lot of engines for other machinery

Not so much if you are into wheel loaders
But there are several really good small compact tractors on the market now
This is a rapidly rapidly growing area
If you live on small acreage you can pick up a small Kubota or John Deere
A1025 r

And these little compact tractors only way about a ton
You can stick them on a tandem trailer
And the amount of gear you can buy for them is unbelievable

Backhoes grapples loaders post hole diggers
Drive over finishing mowers slashers rakes blowers

Check it out

Bobcat have recently entered the market with a very reasonably priced compact tractor that does everything I'll post a video later

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by Ayn Marx on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 8:36am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 9^th, 2021 at 9:43pm:

Here are the contenders

Volvo
Caterpillar
Mustang
Hercules
Yanmar
JCB
Chenggong
Case
Komatsu
Kubota

https://www.machines4u.com.au/mag/australias-top-10-front-end-loader-brands/

A few farmers around here wouldn’t put Chenggong on their list ever again.

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 6:46pm

Hurray - we have votes for Kubota and Bobcat.

I'll put in my amateur vote for Hyundai.

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by aquascoot on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 7:45pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEotp_2oqM

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by aquascoot on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 7:45pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0RmDyVvIag

Title: Re: Who makes the best Wheel Loaders?
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 10:41pm

aquascoot wrote on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 7:45pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEotp_2oqM

I love it