New Takeuchi 290! Best Option for a Mini Ex

Hey Sam. My name is Aidan. I am the kid next to Morgan working on the engine in the picture you got from him. I am his cousin and we are very close. I sent you a letter to your p.o. box and hope you get it soon. Keep up with the great work. Love the content. Aidan Abeln.

Hey Sam, Morgan Vass was watching the video and very excited about being in a V-belt video! Talk about making a kids day! He got that new motor into the old TB125 that is in that picture. Funny thing is Morgan's Grandpa has a 280 acre ranch land with oak filled canyons that are overgrown. Around the natural spring is tons of vine choking out the trees and we were talking about your video in the 080 Kubota and FAE mulcher being what we need to get for our canyon work and then you posted this great video! Morgan and I would appreciate a video on the types of mulcher heads and teeth (I think you mentioned a drum in the 080 video) to deal with vines. Went to FAE website to see a new mulcher head that has metal tines that limit down travel and bogging, BL1EX, with Bite Limiter tech, looks awesome. This is really interesting content and we can say that Jim at Global is an awesome dude like you say. Good to see your dad in the video too. Keep it up and thank you, Laszlo Vass.

I have been using a new TB 290 for the last month on my property. You wont be disappointed. Great little machine.

I recently operated a 290 with a hammer busting refrac concrete doing demo on an ash hopper at a power plant. Awesome machine

My business was built around a TB290 and fecon head and I love it to this day. Fully recommend it! I started renting one through united rental first but eventually moved to buy. Great video.

Well Sam I bought two machines from Jim and couldn't be happier. Global was already servicing my older Taks (TB 125 & TL120) before I upgraded to a TB235 and TL6. Both I can transport without CDL which is they way I want. Thanks Jim, Rick, Dave, John, and office staff at Global!!!!!!

I bought a tb260 last year and have been very pleased with it.

Wow, I wish I new Jim and Global when I bought my 080🙄. When I get the skid steer, it will be a Takeuchi TL12 w/ an FAE head and it will be from Jim and Global.... live and learn. Education comes in many forms but never without a price and I’m paying for mine😳. Thanks for sharing Sam👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

We bought the exact same machine,we use a recon mower an a rotobec grapple on it,,,excellent machine

Looks nice! I just bought the cat 306cr and love it but I don’t think you could go wrong with the Tuc. Dealer is everything 👍🏻

Have a TB-175.... older version of that one. Great machine. Love it

Sweet lookin ride Sam! I rented a takey 250 a few months back to remove a bunch of juniper trees here in Central Oregon to build a riding arena for our non-profit program, it was 10-12 thousand pound machine and one of the old models but it did what I needed. Definitely a "rental" machine and put through the ringer which made it feel like just another wore out small excavator, but what frustrated the piss outta me was the thumb would hold zero pressure against the cylinder so it may well have not had one at all lol. I was trying like hell to get a 290 but unless you're a licensed contractor I don't think they like to rent that size equipment out to just anybody because I can say all I want about 15 years experience hauling and operating far bigger iron than this.............they still haven't seen it. Can't say I blame them either but back to the video, thanks for the ride along pard! One day when I grow up......... I'll have one of these with grapples and a zipper head for wasting precious time and fuel lmao 🤣, be a fair piece before the growing up part happens though lmfao

I have probably commented this on your channel before. But I own a Takeuchi TB260 and a TL12V2. And I just love them both, they are easy enough to work on, which I haven't done yet besides first service. They both run and operate great. They are priced better than comparable Cat or Kubota machines, and in my opinion are nicer and every bit better built and designed! I only wish i would have went with the 280 or 290 for more reach. Next time though if and when I ever wear out the 260.

290 is a beast.. we are running now the new Generation the 290-2 with two pumps… No other model cant beat him.. Here in Austria its one of the most used machine with the powertilt !!

Nice machine,I'm like you I like something in that weight range so you don't need a real transport TT to move it. The only thing I don't like about that and your 80 is the backhoe swing where the boom mounts to the dog house I have never had a use for it, I like the boom solid mounted like the big machines. That is a unneeded wear point for me. In the past i have used mine for land clearing and demo work which is very hard on the machine for that type of use. I like Hitachi or JD also Kobelco in the 60 to 100 range. I like the grey market stuff to which is getting harder to get now days and way more expensive than it used to be. i like older junk to easier to work on.

Great content, I liked the information and demo.

nice to have an enclosed cab especially when you hit a nest of yellow jackets, I bet that thing would really tick them off LOL

We own a tb250-2 and have rented the tb290 plenty of times nothing compares to Takeuchi I wouldn’t even think of getting anything thing else unless I had meclec money

They sell the best stuff! Mecalacs in back, Takeuchi, and crazy mulching stuff. Having not great expierence with my svl95-2 4 months old only, same with my 9month old l6060 with recall where they took it for a month with no loaner machine at all. My 040 has been bulletproof and somehow always paid for the others lol. Takeuchi looks real nice.

That is one of my favorite brands of excavators.

Getting dad involved, awesome

Fantastic diggers i've been using them now for over 5 years they're supplied by a local rental company never one single issue and run on the smell of diesel they're the most reliable digger I've used to date and I've run lots of different makes over the last 25 years the rental company oldest digger is 10 years old I had it a while ago and it still runs like a new digger they have 25 of them and seriously none ever had and problems only thing they need is serviced never any problems with hydraulic pumps

We have a TB290 also and its been a great machine, comfortable and not too much it cant do. We also have a 12k IHI mini ex, the dealer support is crap but it has been a bulletproof machine so far with a lot of beating!

Looks like some fine equipment to me!!!!

Komatsu has proven itself the best to me excavator-wise, but Takeuchi seems like a real nice machine. I would also like to see a review on the new Link Belt and Kobelco minis.

CAT 306. Sweet machine. And you can control the tracks with your hands if you want to.

Oh left me hanging sam...next vidja please...killer content as usual!!

I use a bobcat E85 just because that what we have at work for mini excavator... Other then that it's Deere 210 exc, or cat329F

It looks great 👍

I have had 3 takeuchi excavators . I have been very happy with them all ,I have bought them all used. I would not own any other brand mini excavator.

I have a Hitachi USB65. Yanmar powered. Tilt Rotor head is the BEST option.

I know you have a deal going on with global but I just bought a Yanmar mini excavator from Meridan in Sac and that little thing is awesome. It has so much more power than I would have thought for its size. Vi017 about 4000 pounds. I use it for excavating and such in small yards and getting through small gates for residential landscape construction. Honestly though, it seems any of the Japanese manufacturers make great machines.

Looks nice. Have you looked into a yanmar. I have had good luck with them.

Like to see you and your dad on another job with the Mecalac and Takeuchi excavator . An see the job with the track boom lift .

Nice unit bud 👍

I’m looking at a Bobcat E45 right now. You ever ran one or have an opinion? If I get it I will be using it on my channel! Keep up the good videos.

Sometimes special about todays video. I swear I could smell everything :) or maybe its that its warming up :) and I have the same kinda of terrain and trees and brush around me.

Those 290’s are beast! That’s going to be my next excavator! 💪🏻

You should look into the new cat 309, the auxiliary flow is crazy it has a separate auxiliary pump. I'd love to see you demo one, and see how it does with the mulching head. Great videos!

Mini Gooch and Maxi Gooch I like the Alfred Nobel excavator line. Dynamite

I don’t know much about the Tak’s but I hear good things about the cat 309, also the big Yanmar’s seem to be a worthy adversary.

Takeuchi are great machines they are just a little thirsty on the fuel.

I looked at the TB1250 And the TB290 . Those machines are 3 pump machines … Not single pump like my Bobcat E85 and your Kubota 080 … I looked at the Yan Mar SV100 , that is a. Very nice machine also…. Hat machine has Dual pumps … there are not many more machines worth a shit in this category.. yes Volvo, Now Kumatsu gets a huge thumbs up for sure… there are others but the Yan mar and the Taki are for sure in the running for my next machine. All these small machines have limitations

I enjoy watching your videos! I have question for you. Since I would refer you to an expert in the mulching seen what type of mulched head would you recommend for a Bobcat e35 25hp Motor?

You don't need a Commercial License. You do need a Class A. However you can get a noncommercial license. As long as you are not doing commerce. I just went through this with California Department of Motor Vehicles. My new Ram 4500 exceeds weight limits and hauling a loaded trailer. Puts me in a range where a class B and or possibly a class A drivers license is required. I had a class A commercial license years ago. However I don't do that anymore. I am getting a class A noncommercial drivers license. I had to argue with several uneducated people at the California Department of Motor Vehicles. However I finaly managed to get them educated about class A noncommercial license. God bless

I kept waiting for you to say $$!! Newbie, no idea! LOL 8) --gary

What size cutter did that have on it?

We have a Volvo ECR-88 mini (mid?) Our FORMER local dealer was great, but they lost the Volvo support. Now it takes about 2 weeks (before CV19) to get a tech out, as before, a tech would be there that day or the next morning. The OLD local would take the time to get there tech on the phone to do a trouble shoot/see what they may need, the new; out of state; yeah - we'll schedule someone 2-3 weeks from now... Heck, even Deere ships their "heavy" service 4 states away... We're looking into a new back-hoe, 125+ grand, to replace our '97 New Holland with a s*&^ ton of hours and many multiple ops (drivers!) Comes down to the local dealers - Case/New Holland (Fiat group) or Cat. We have both, N.H./Ford/Jacobson and Cat running (and clinging to life...) and either dealer/distributor would bend over backwards for us. Some schmuck/shirt(skirt)-n-tie/ mangler would go Deere/JCB/Volvo/who-ever to save a grand or three, but no local dealer support/network. Our outfit has about 1/2-3/4 mil in heavy equipment (skid/tracked loaders to mid-heavy wheeled loaders mini/mid to mid/heavy excs, 6-12 wheel dumps&t trailers) and the f*&% penny pinchin M.F.'s make my life a living heck trying to service/maintain/repair this stuff in a timely matter with out me going postal.... : END rant TL:DR - Buy form a local dealer that you trust and have a good relation with - brand comes second.

would like to see you demo a new caterpillar 309cr as a comparison. cat has 37 gpm high flow and that should run a mulcher better.

I have yellow in my blood, have to be a Catapillar.

The used 080 is in my budget lol

That's funny. Yanmar made the same claim about being the first miniature excavator on the market about that same year. I wonder how many other companies make the same claim.

Last one 😅 but liked first...🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve actually been talking to bill about possibly buying a tb250-2 Been also looking at the yanmar vio50 For your weight the vio80 is an 18k machine

You should try the kx80-4 it has more flow to the head

I don’t no if you have covered this before, but what about buying a bigger piece of equipment?

What model head is on that

Have you ever tried a Botcat E88? Just curious of your thoughts on one with a similar FAE head

My uncle is Laszlo

What do you tag your vehicles at as far as weight?

What head is that

Check out TB180FR 👍🏻

If you liked your kubota try out the Bobcat E85, it’s kinda like the kubota but faster and has colder ac, hotter heat, and more speed in almost every aspect.

So how much is alot of money?

Caterpillar!

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Don’t they make American ones

Is it just me but there was someone taking a pee in the back ground.

i don't really see that as a mini, more mid-sized

Did he say 19k lb

4th

John deere 85g

I’m not impressed….