Grand Designs: Mooreno telehandler

[readiescards]

Serious tool jealousy today watching Grand Designs with that tracked pivoting mini digger.

 

Mooreno can't find much about them though

[PeterW]

Was it not a Merlo..??

[readiescards]

Nope not a Merlo. Just re-watched it. Mooreno designed by a guy called Andy Cox, who was the driver in the programme, can't found out any more info though.

[Declan52]

An 8 tonne digger would have done what he needed. At a push maybe a 5 T.

Made him out to be a real smart guy then it shows him manhandling the timber up using the kwikstage as steps. Never heard of a lever hoist or if he wanted to go all out you can even get scaffold hoists. I bought one to lift the 4.2m concrete heads on my build. Done the job in mins with out killing myself.

[readiescards]

Presumably a tyre'd digger would have do more damage to the ground though?

[Declan52]

Would be like a ploughed field in mins. An ordinary tracked 5/8t digger with the extension arm would have done the job.

[valmet10]

 have a look at this site , this is the guy ,

http://www.norcar.co.uk/four-track/4589489471

[valmet10]

or this

http://www.moorendltd.com/

[readiescards]

Approx £50k + VAT

[PeterW]

For the baby version of the 4T - they are reworked wheeled units with a track system that is supposedly patent however Claas have been building them for years as quad track units. 

 

Oddly the selling point seems to be on environmental basis which I can't understand - I would have expected it would be more about ease of use on soft surfaces