FIRST TAKEUCHI TB370W FOR BETHELL GROUP
Manchester based Bethell Group are the first civil engineering company in the UK to receive Takeuchi’s newest model, the new TB370W wheeled excavator, to add to the company’s ever-increasing fleet.
The new model is already helping deliver phase two of the Market Street regeneration project in Farnworth, Bolton. The new wheely (rubber-duck) is set to provide a powerful yet compact utility vehicle with site-ready features designed for utilities / streetworks and civils job.
It is the versatility of the new TB370W machine makes it site ready. With up to 4 auxiliary ports for a variety of attachments, everything from grabs, pallet forks, breakers to buckets can get to work. 
As one of the most compact sized wheeled excavators on the market Takeuchi have high expectations for the new machine. It has been designed especially for working in reduced spaces, compact housing developments and the narrowest streetworks or utilities. With a compact footprint of just 2.1×2.9m coupled with a 2-piece boom as standard, the TB370W delivers the most economic size while moving in and around site. Its considered nimble and highly productive for a 7.5 tonne weight class.
Ronan Kilroe, Plant Operations Manager at Bethell explains how on seeing the new very compact sized TB370W at last year’s Hillhead, the Bethell’s team knew it was perfect for the fleet.
“Bethell have been looking for a Rubber Duck of this size for some time. There have been projects where we required the versatility of our TB295W or TB395W, but the machines were just that touch too big. We explored other options from other manufacturers before the launch of the TB370W, but I just couldn’t bring myself to get something other than a Takeuchi – so when Takeuchi exhibited the TB370W at Hillhead, I was delighted!
I was very keen to try and get our hands on a unit and luckily enough we were able to do just that, investing in the first unit in the Northwest & one of the first in the UK.”
“We have a long-standing relationship with Takeuchi, and we favour them for their Japanese engineering, power, reliability, fuel efficiency, innovation & strong residual values.
The new TB370W will prove an invaluable tool on a wide array of Civils and Highways jobs for us, providing all the benefits Takeuchi offers as well as the versality of it being wheeled while remaining compact in size.” 
Takechi excavators have long been a favourite brand for Bethell, the company got their first machine over 20 years ago and today more than 50% of their entire fleet is Takeuchi. They have had about every model of Takeuchi from 1-15 tonnes, including a TB014 from 2006 that’s still going strong.
Takeuchi’s return to the 7.5-tonne weight class has proven a successful move with plenty of interest in the new model. The TB370W joins six other new styled 3-Series or 3rd generation Takeuchi excavators launched in recent years..
