Takeuchi
Takeuchi TL11R3
The bright segment is what Takeuchi TL11R3 is rated to carry; the grey run past it is the rest of its tipping load. Bar length is tipping load drawn to the same scale on every machine on the site, so a short bar is a smaller machine and not a conservative rating.
First of Takeuchi's new 3 Series track loaders, the TL11R3 is also the company's first with electric-over-hydraulic joystick controls. The 107.3 hp Kubota turbo-diesel drives a radial-lift boom rated at 2,735 lbs, with up to 40 GPM of high-flow auxiliary hydraulics for mulchers and planers. The EH system switches between ISO and H patterns, adds electronic self-leveling and adjustable sensitivity, and an 8-inch touchscreen with standard 270-degree rearview camera anchors a redesigned quiet cab. Takeuchi Fleet Management telematics comes standard for five years.
Suits: Big high-flow power and modern EH controls on Takeuchi's undercarriage Its radial lift path reaches furthest at mid-height, for digging, grading and backfilling.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityTrack loader rating convention
- 2,735 lbs
- Tipping load
- 7,825 lbs
- Lift height to hinge pin
- 126 in
- Lift path
- Radial Lift
- Operating weight
- 11,980 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 107 hp
- Engine
- Kubota V3800-TIE5B
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 23.1 GPM
- Flow type
- Standard
- Warranty
- 2 yr / 2,000 hr
Fitted or available
What this machine can be ordered with. Some of these are standard and some cost extra, and which is which moves between trim levels, so check them against the quote rather than against this list.
What owners report
Summarised from the sources listed below. Nothing here was tested by us.
Sixth machine in Takeuchi's track loader line, and the first one anywhere in that line to be built around electro-hydraulic controls rather than hydraulic pilot valves. Owners and operators talk about it as a digging machine first - 107.3 hp, radial-lift geometry and 7,958 lb of bucket breakout - and the people who evaluated it in the field kept returning to how directly it responds, with one comparing the feel to a dozer rather than a loader.
In practice the standout is the operator station: separately tunable boom, bucket and travel sensitivity, a settable arm height limit for working under low structures, an 8-inch touchscreen, a high-back suspension seat, and sightlines good enough that evaluators mentioned seeing both edges of the bucket. The undercarriage under it is the newest part of the machine - double-flanged idlers, sealed rollers with metal face seals, double-reduction planetaries, 18-inch tracks - and undercarriage is where this brand earned its following. The honest weak spot reported so far is bucket reactiveness when casting dirt, which did not fully come right even with sensitivity turned up.
It answers to a living made digging, stripping and pushing, to a want for the tunable controls, and to a dealer close enough to matter; skip it if your day is loading trailers and trucks, where a vertical-lift machine of the same weight will out-produce it. It lands in flagship money against the Cat 275, Bobcat T76 and John Deere 331 P-Tier, all of which have denser dealer networks behind them. Before signing, confirm in writing whether high flow is on the build - it brings the 270-degree camera set with it - and spend the demo casting material out of the bucket rather than only lifting with it.
What owners like
- Two independent operator-instructors put one through a cold-weather field evaluation in spring 2026 and both came away sold. One said the ISO pattern felt "more like running a dozer" with reaction that was immediate rather than delayed; the other called the hydraulic response and the precision of stopping a motion "perfect" and said he would buy it in a heartbeat. That is unusually specific praise from people whose job is teaching machine control.
- It is the first Takeuchi loader of any size with electro-hydraulic controls, and the features that unlocks are the practical kind: switching between ISO and H patterns from a button rather than a plumbing change, self-level on the way up and the way down, and a programmable arm height limit you can set to stop the boom short of a low doorway or soffit.
- Boom, bucket and travel sensitivity are each adjustable on their own rather than as one global "slow/fast" setting, so an operator can leave travel calm for finish grading while keeping the loader arms quick.
- Visibility drew the strongest comments in that evaluation - one operator called it "fantastic" and specifically noted being able to see both edges of the bucket. The rear camera is mounted so you glance down at the display rather than up, which the evaluators counted as a real improvement over overhead placements, and the image was described as very clear.
- The undercarriage was redesigned rather than carried over: double-flanged front and rear idlers, heavy-duty sealed rollers with metal face seals, double-reduction planetary final drives and a welded one-piece steel frame, on 18-inch tracks with 12.4 inches of ground clearance. Undercarriage is the single largest recurring cost of owning a track loader, and it is the part of a Takeuchi that owner-operators point to when they explain why they keep buying the brand.
- The high-flow circuit runs up to 40.5 gpm at 3,480 psi and flow presets are set from the cab, so swapping between a mulching head and a lower-flow attachment does not mean re-dialing a valve by hand every time.
What owners complain about
- This is a brand-new model carrying a control system that is brand new to the whole company - there is no field history on these electronics, and the first buyers are the ones who find whatever needs finding. On a hydraulically-piloted Takeuchi a dealer visit is a hydraulic problem; on this one it can be a software problem.
- The one substantive criticism from the field evaluation was bucket reactiveness: an operator-instructor found it "a little weak on the reactiveness" and slow at the flop method of throwing dirt off the bucket, and reported that turning the hydraulic sensitivity up did not fully fix it. If you grade or cast material for a living, that is the specific thing to test on a demo.
- High flow is an option, not equipment - a base machine leaves with 23.1 gpm. The 270-degree camera package also comes standard only on high-flow machines, so in practice the two upgrades travel together and the base configuration is not the machine described in the launch coverage.
- 2,735 lb of rated capacity is modest for a machine approaching 12,000 lb. It is quoted honestly, on the 35 percent of tipping load basis most of the industry uses, but it is a radial-lift machine competing against vertical-lift rivals of similar weight that both carry more and place it higher, so truck loading is not where it wins.
- Dealer coverage remains thinner than Cat, Deere or Bobcat through much of the Plains and Mountain West. Owner complaints about every brand in this class come back to how far away the nearest dealer with the diagnostic software is, and that matters more than usual on a first-year electronic control system than it would on a simple machine.
Drawn from constructionequipment.com, compactequip.com, takeuchi-us.com.
What buyers ask
What do operators who have actually run the TL11R3 say about it?
Is the high-flow hydraulic package worth adding?
How does its 2,735 lb rated capacity compare to rivals?
What is new about the undercarriage?
What is the risk in buying a first-year model?
Does it need a heavier truck and trailer than a mid-frame machine?
Put the Takeuchi TL11R3 against
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$95,000
- Engine
- 111 hp
- Aux flow
- 23.2 GPM
- Weight
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- Engine
- 111 hp
- Aux flow
- 23.3 GPM
- Weight
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- Engine
- 74 hp
- Aux flow
- 18.8 GPM
- Weight
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