Loadall and telehandler hire in Cork

A loadall is a telescopic handler: a four-wheel-drive machine with a boom that extends and raises to lift pallets, blocks, bales and building materials to height. Euro Concrete hires out a Manitou MT 1840, rated for 4 tonnes, with a maximum lift height of 17.55 m.

The boom is mounted at the rear and runs out over the front wheels, so the load can be placed on a roof, a scaffold lift or an upper floor from where the machine stands. Forks are the standard attachment, and the carriage tilts to keep the load level as the boom rises. Stabilisers at the front steady the machine for lifts near full height. On a building site it moves blocks, roof sheets, steel and pallets; on a farm it stacks bales and handles feed around the yard. What it can carry depends on how far out the boom reaches, which is why the questions at booking are the load, the height and the reach.

Euro Concrete hires the Manitou MT 1840 loadall at €750 a week, excluding VAT. Day hire, longer hires and the machine with a driver are priced on the phone: ring Sean on 086 881 9848 with your dates and the site address.

The weekly figure covers the machine only. Getting the machine to you is charged by the length of the trip and the access at your gate, and a telehandler needs firm ground at the gate and where it will work. A driver adds to the cost, and is worth it where nobody on site has operated a telehandler. The load, the height and how far out it has to go decide whether the MT 1840 suits the lift or a rotating machine is needed, so give those details when you ring, and we will match the machine before pricing the hire. Book early for fixed dates, since there is one MT 1840 in the fleet.

A telehandler's lifting capacity depends on the model and on how far the boom is extended: the rated maximum applies close in, and the safe load falls as the boom reaches out and up. Euro Concrete's Manitou MT 1840 is rated at 4 tonnes, and its load chart sets what it can lift at each reach and height.

Every telehandler carries a load chart in the cab, showing the safe load for each combination of boom angle and extension. A load that lifts easily to a first-floor scaffold may be too heavy to place far out on a roof. Stabilisers raise the capacity at height, and the attachment in use changes the figures too, since forks, a bucket and a jib each have their own chart. When you ring, give the weight of the heaviest load, the height it goes to and the distance from where the machine can stand, and we will check the lift against the chart before the machine goes out.

Yes. Loadall is JCB's name for its telescopic handlers, and around Cork it has become the everyday word for any telehandler, whoever built it. Euro Concrete's loadall is a Manitou MT 1840, the same kind of machine people also call a telehandler, a teleporter or a telescopic handler.

Telehandler is the general name, short for telescopic handler, and teleporter is another name you will hear on building sites. They all describe the same layout: four-wheel drive and a telescopic boom that lifts forward over the front of the machine. JCB, Manitou, Merlo and others build them. A rotating telehandler, also called a rotary loadall or a roto, is a different machine: its boom sits on a turret that turns, and it works from outriggers, more like a small crane. If a search or a site calls for any of these names, the question to answer is the same: the load, the height and the reach.

Euro Concrete hires telehandlers rather than leasing them. For a job that runs for weeks or months, the Manitou MT 1840 can stay on hire week after week, with the rate for a longer hire agreed when you book, and it goes back when the work is finished.

A lease is a finance agreement: a monthly payment over a fixed term, and the lessee can take on servicing and insurance as part of it. That suits a business that uses a telehandler every day. Hire suits work with a start and an end, such as a build, a roofing job or a busy season on the farm, and delivery, collection and a handover on the controls come with it. For a long hire, tell us the expected length of the job and the site, and we will price it as one hire rather than week by week.

Euro Concrete Services hires out its loadall out of Cork city and Skibbereen and delivers it anywhere in County Cork, from the harbour towns to Bantry Bay, and collects it afterwards. Give Sean a ring on 086 881 9848 with the site and your dates, and he will confirm when the machine can be with you.

That covers building sites in and around the city and the harbour towns, farms across North Cork around Charleville, Kanturk and Mitchelstown, and yards and sites in West Cork from Bandon to Bantry. A telehandler is a large machine, so say if the gateway, lane or yard entrance is narrow, or the ground soft. If the machine is going to a working farm or a busy site, tell us the best time of day for the drop, so it arrives when the yard or the gate is clear.