JPSouth
Well-Known Member
I'm helping a friend on his small mine, and he has a plan that includes a telehandler, and I'm not confident it's going to work. I've only got a hundred hours or so in one, all with forks, so not real sure what they're capable of.
In the underground operation, there is an area which needs to be cleared of broken rock, nothing too large. His plan is to use a bucket on a telehandler, extend to the debris pile while the loader stays on stable ground, pushing the bucket in and then retracting with the load. With my limited experience on those things, I can see this plan perhaps working with a few feet of extension, and on pretty loose material. I have an idea the bucket option was maybe made to load with the boom fully retracted, extending the load to where it needed to be, and dumping. Pushing or driving into a pile seems like the wrong kind of force to put on an extended boom.
Could someone line me out a little? Long term rental on this thing isn't bad, but getting it to where it needs to work is a long haul..don't want to waste a bunch of money on what isn't going to work. Thanks..
In the underground operation, there is an area which needs to be cleared of broken rock, nothing too large. His plan is to use a bucket on a telehandler, extend to the debris pile while the loader stays on stable ground, pushing the bucket in and then retracting with the load. With my limited experience on those things, I can see this plan perhaps working with a few feet of extension, and on pretty loose material. I have an idea the bucket option was maybe made to load with the boom fully retracted, extending the load to where it needed to be, and dumping. Pushing or driving into a pile seems like the wrong kind of force to put on an extended boom.
Could someone line me out a little? Long term rental on this thing isn't bad, but getting it to where it needs to work is a long haul..don't want to waste a bunch of money on what isn't going to work. Thanks..