The best large excavator manufacturers are: 1.Komatsu 2.CAT 3.Liebherr 4.Hitachi(OEM to John Deere) 5.Sumitomo(OEM to CASE) 6.Atlas(aquired by Telex) 7.Kato 8.Kobelco 9.Volvo 10.Doosan 11.Hyundai The best small excavator manufacturers: 1.Kubota 2.Takeuchi 3.Yanmar 4.Bobcat( Now belongs to Doosan) 5.CASE 6.JCB 7.IHI 8.Telex What do you think of these rankings? Do you have one yourself?
The ames tool company has been killing all those you listed above on reliability, fuel efficiency, downtime, availabilty of spares, and compatibility for new operators. There easy of transport is amazing you can practacally move one with a car.
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Terex right?
I'd put CAT on the mini list before I'd put Case/NH (Kobelco), JCB, IHI, Telex (Terex), or Takeuchi. BTW...Bobcat still makes all of their own mini's under 5t even though Doosan owns them, and Terex divested (sold/dumped) Atlas about approx three years ago to a guy named Filipov and Atlas is on their own now.
Also, the Ames Tool Company excavator performs far better than brands in list above when doing fine digging around underground lines.
Not only that, I still have my Grandfather's. Ity works better than a new one. Best part, it hasnt been fueled up or greased or nothing in better than 20 years and its still going strong.
i dissagree, excavators, 1. Link belt (aka sumitomo, same as case) 2.Volvo 3.doosan 4.cat 5.deere (same as hitachi) 6.leibherr 7.komatsu 8. hyundai mini 1. Takeuchi 2.case (same as kobelco, new holland 3.cat 4.kubota 5.bobcat
I'd put Volvo way further up! And CAT up there on the minis too.
Kato rated above Volvo....who you kidding
Only thing is low resale value on the Ames model Stump and Willie,You can't give some away brand new!
1 hitachi 2.sumitomo (linkbelt) (case) 3kobelco 4 doosan 5 komatsu the rest ie cat volvo are over rated over priced and twice 2 hard on diesel to even come into comparison with the first 5 mentioned as for mini diggers 1.takeuchai 2.hitachi (zaxis only) 3.kobuta 4.kobelco 5.jcb 6.hitachi airman ex/ax models 7. yanmar cat do not make a good mini digger
Who decides the ranking?
Who are you try kidding? Hitachi is known for its hunger of fuel for example, Volvo is known for being cheap on diesel. There a test among 21 tones machines and Volvo was the only one that took less then 20 liters of fuel per hour.
Excavators Good idea for a thread. Should there be 3 classes of excavators? 1) Mini 2) Small to Medium 12 ton to 30 ton class 3) Large 35 ton and up I think Komatsu has been King of the 12 ton to 30 ton class for awhile. I would Takeuchi over the Kubota in the larger mini's and Kubota in the smaller mini's. Just my thoughts.
Definitely Liebherr for large excavators, they are fantastic machines and extremely well engineered. As for small or mini I think Kubota or Wacker Neuson.
Yair . . . I know bugger all about excavators but can someone define "best"? It probably means different things to different folks. I can't imagine that any machine could hold it's market share if it was markedly different in performance to similar machines in it's class. For the owner it all comes down to operating costs and the bottom line when the unit is due to be replaced. For the operator it is probably more about "power" and "speed" and "feel" and how good the a/c or heat and sound system is. For the fitter its about servicability. Cheers.
I couldn't agree more. The best thing about those Ames Tool company units is ease of operation, finding an operator in less developed countries becomes a whole lot easier when you have one of those lying around