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Worthy successor
Takeuchi has chosen the Show for the UK launch of its new TB216 mini excavator. Nick Johnson was given an early preview.
Takeuchi is one of the leading mini excavator brands and its biggest seller has been the 1660-1800kg class TB016. This stalwart has been around since 1999, but Show visitors will be able to inspect its worthy successor, the new TB216. Fitted with a fully enclosed cab, it has an operating weight of 1800kg, inclusive of bucket and fuel. The four-post canopy version will tip the scales at 1680kg.
for easier filter replacement. The hydraulic oil tank is now located inside the left side of the engine bay, where the steel fuel tank used to be. The latter is now plastic and positioned inside the offside of the machine. This has resulted in the fuel filler moving from the top of the rear engine compartment to inside a lockable side door, and a funnel is now definitely needed if refuelling is carried out from a drum.
Service technicians will appreciate the provision of more access doors and the addition of easily unboltable side skirts. A grease gun is conveniently located behind one of the side access doors and the tool kit is found within a lockable compartment inside the cab.
The TB216 gains a top-mounted boom cylinder and better-protected hydraulic hoses.
Placing a TB216 alongside its predecessor makes it easy to spot big improvements. At the front there is a top-mounted boom cylinder, a much neater kingpost, and better protected hydraulic hoses that run through the kingpost, boom and dipper. Meanwhile, the rear corners gain greater protection with wrap-around steel panels. Also enhancing durability is a new one-piece cast dipper arm. The new ROPS, TOPS and FOPS certified cab provides easier access and better visibility due to a larger front screen, which now utilises flat glass and, with the provision of two small gas struts and better latches, is much easier to roll up and stow into the cab roof. The front wiper motor is much neater, and gone is the somewhat unsightly coiled cable connection found inside the cab of the TB016.
The cab interior is much smarter. A big bonus is the better LCD instrument panel, whose display includes a fuel gauge. Previously, the only way an operator could check how much fuel was left was to open the rear engine compartment and look at a sight gauge on the tank. The TB216 has the latest lower emissions Yanmar 3TNV engine, rated at 11.5kW (15.4hp) to provide 13% more power than the TB016. Access is achieved via the easier to raise rear canopy, which has a small gas strut to hold it up.
Takeuchi’s engineers have rearranged some of the internal components to improve service access. An example is the air filter casing that has been rotated through 90° in order to point outwards
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A more damage resistant steel-framed cab door will be standard on TB216s supplied in this country, with the all-glass alternative (as on the machine EHN saw) being an alternative. Like its predecessor, the machine has side extending tracks to increase overall width from 980 to 1300mm. Surprisingly, Takeuchi has retained bolt-on blade side extensions, rather than opting for the easier to deploy swing-around wings with slot-in securing pins.
A good addition is the easy-to-use external changeover lever for switching from single to dual acting auxiliary hydraulics. Also praiseworthy is the repositioning of the dozer control lever to outside of the right-hand control console, where it will not restrict seat space for well-built operators.
Takeuchi will also use the Show to display its new TB215R, a 1580kg mini with a canopy. Complete with variable width
980-1300mm tracks and a greatly reduced 720mm tail radius, this smaller machine is particularly suitable for work in confined spaces.
The new Yanmar engine develops more power and torque. • 01706 657722
www.takeuchi-mfg.co.uk
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