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Review of Takeuchi TB335R Compact Excavator

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The host reviews the Takeuchi TB335R Compact Excavator, highlighting its features such as a reduced tail swing, spacious cab, color touchscreen monitor, jog dial control, responsive pilot controls, and a Kubota engine delivering 25.6 horsepower. He notes the large air intake for efficient cooling and a new nitrogen-assisted breaker (TKB302-S). The excavator comes with a 2-year/2000-hour warranty, and the breaker has a 1-year warranty. The price point is in the mid-$50,000 range. The host expresses general approval of Takeuchi's brand reputation but advises caution when purchasing newly released 'first-year' models due to potential unaddressed issues.

Goal: Evaluate the features, benefits, and potential drawbacks of the Takeuchi TB335R Compact Excavator.

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  • Kubota Engine — Powering the excavator
  • Takeuchi TKB302-S Breaker Takeuchi — Demonstrating new attachment options with the excavator

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into today's video. All right, you guys, we're going to go into the Takauchi booth and look at a new excavator. Justin, how are you? >> Hey, Justin Smith, Takuchi. >> Okay, so this is brand new by Takuchi, right? >> Absolutely. It's our first machine in the reduced uh tail swing market. So, our first uh non-conventional tail swing excavator. So, what makes this thing different than what's already being offered out there, Justin? >> Uh, the Takiuchi name. In my opinion, we were the first in the compact excavator business. Uh, we've been the most innovative. Uh, strength, rigidity, uh, performance, that's what we go for with our excavators. >> Okay. So, walk me through this machine. This is an 8,000lb category. >> 3 and 12 ton machine. Yeah. Reduced tail swing. Uh, we've got a nice spacious cab. Uh, new, uh, color touchscreen monitor. Uh new jog dial control on these machines. Uh very responsive controls, pilot control machine. Uh great size cab for this size class of machine. Go back here on serviceability. We've got a nice large air cleaner air air uh intake for for all the engine area. Um we're using a K Cabota engine in this one. >> A K Cabota engine? >> Yeah, K Cabota engine. Uh we we primarily partner with them on >> How many horsepower is that? >> Uh this one is 25.6, six, I believe. >> Okay. >> We've got a nice large air intake, so our machines cool well. Um, >> okay. So, you you run a K Cabota engine. Why would a guy buy a Takuchi over just buying a K Cabota excavator then? >> Kabota makes good engines. Uh, but we make good excavators, so it's a good partnership. Um, everything that's bolted to that engine is different and Takiuchi made. Um, you're going to get more performance out of our machines. >> And you've partnered this with a new breaker. >> Yeah. So, now we've got a full attachment line. Uh, new breakers. Um, they're, uh, sold by our dealership network, warrantied and serviced through our dealers. Um, we do a one-year attachment warranty on this. Uh, 2year 2000 on the machines. >> So, tell me a little bit about the warranty on this. So, if a guy has a problem with this, he can just bring it into any dealership with >> you authorized dealers. Yeah. On the breaker, we're we're at a year on the machine. We're two year 20,000 hours. >> Two a year and 2,000 hours. Okay, we partner with this breaker uh mainly because of the nitrogen…

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